Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
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NEW tscAoozHoOsSE OF TIE Hzz0zDOHA P27oJEcT

here are some letters from Huntley, Mont, where
the irrigation projects embrace a total of 10000
acres They are not all completed but the water has
been put large tracts and several goodszed toWna
nave gone up. This Is land of grain and alfalfa
Wheat averages thirty bushels to the acre barley
from fifty to seventy bushels and oats from ninetv IN
1OO bushels, The oats sell for 90 cents a hundred
pounds, and good seed oats bring as much as ST.
There 10 grazing country about and alfalfa is worth
% ton In the stack 1t yields from five to seven
tons an acre from three cuttings and is used also
TO restore the fertility of the soil A sugar beet
factory has been recently established near Huntley
and the farmers raising beets getting fourteen
tons to the acre, which they sell for IS ton They
can grow 400 bushels Of onions $50 bushels of DO
tatoes on almost any part of the government lands
and there is an instance of farmer who grew $50
worth OF cucumbers one-eighth of an acre never
before touched with the pillow.
IN connection with cucumbers have a letter from
NAT Marten OF Huntley, who made $4,000 out Of dll
pickles, which raised on less than seven acres
OF land He put up $40 barrels Of these pickles and
sold them at $13 barrel He says that most of the
cucumoers were raised by the neghbors on the above
land He paid them cent a pound, and this gave
good profit as some of them raised nine tons to the
acre. Mr.. Marten says he expects to double his out
put next year and to raise most Of the cucumbers
himself
Another Huntley man writes that he came from,
CATION farming got fory-one from the govern
ment and titled alone with the assistance of his
children the Oldest of whom just fourteen years
His first crop brought him in $4,000 and he expeots
to produce at least $4,000 worth of stuff this year
This man says: ut don't take big man to do this
weigh only 1872 pounds" His name is W. w. Kes-
lar and his children ten.
Not Bad Place For Children
number Of these letters show how the babies
thrive. There is one from Hermiston Ore written
by =. p Dodd, saying that his neighbor, Bushnell
hao come there three years ago and landed with a
pair of twins in double baby buggy He now has
four boys and 800 house, and at the end of five
years will have $4,000 property all paid for. A
young carpenter bought gfven-up homestead of ten
acres and has 1t now paid for and another planted
twenty acres to alfalfa and grapes
One OF the Hermston settlers says that he is
rasing 600 bushels of onions per acre without feri
zation and crops of other vegetables are quoted al
most as large. This is from the Umatilla project.
wnere water Is now available for eleven or twelve
thousand acres and where the first settlements were
made about four years ago. The locality has excel
lent banks and schools Hermiston having an So 900
concrete school building, with 100 pupils There are
newspapers. churches and fraternity lodges
ostr4ches and Dates.
Do you want to raise ostriches, figs and dates?
Ihere are plenty OF chances to do so on the lands
which Uncle Sam now offers in southern Arizona and
New Mexico. The Roosevelt dam will open up 24O,-
600 acres which will alfalfa, upon which os-
triches will thrive 1t is the same with the Yuma
project farther south, and also the irrigation
schemes of southern New Mexico. In these regions
the country is practically frostless oranges lem
ons. grapefruit and olives be easily grown The
lands lie several hundred feet above sea level and
the temperature ranges from 20 to 11s degrees above
zero.
In some of the tracts the units are as low as ten
acres, which IL found 70 be plenty. crops can be
raised all the year round. Irrigation lands bring
from $50 TO $3.50 per acre. the government tracts
varying in COST according TO the expense involved
in each project The government report from Carts.
bad. N. M, states that the finest Of grapes can he
raised. bringing profit OF $3.50 acre. or lettuce
and peas>,viI net $500 per acre. while Bernuds
onions yielding $1,000 pounds TO the acre and
readily selling for cents pound.
These few notes 20 the profits from Uncls
Sans desert farms Each Of the thrty-four protests