The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-07-03
SOMETHING OF
THE NORTHWEST
And Description of Its
Farming Conditions.
USUALLY PROSPEROUS TIMES
With the Agricultural Glasses
Who Employ Improved
Machinery.
A WELL ORGANIZED A. $. OF T..

| n W ELL ORGANIZED \. -. OF II.
Granite Falls, Mimi, June 81, 1912.
Editors Hartford Herald
Thinking that possibly a few lines
concerning this Northwest country
might be of interest to your many
readers, | will try to pen few OBJ
servations.
Leaving home on May goth, ar
| rived on the 31st at Olivia, Mimi,
where I was to locate for possibly
two weeks, for the purpose of work.
ing for the A. s. Of f. in RenviIle
county. At this town our people
have splendid -four mill which has
proven quite a good thing for the
membership, as they have been able
10 buy flour and feed direct from
the mill in many cases in carload
lots, which has saved to the MEM
bership quite a lot of money.
This in many respects is a great
State. The great. broad prairies,
divided up into the thousands of
nice fertile farms, is surely quite "a
fascinating sight to one accustomed
to the small hillside farms of our
part of Western Kentucky. Here,
where there lis nothing to do to start
farming except TO get up your
equipment and go to blowing;
where nearly all kinds of farm
work lis done by machinery upon
which the operators can ride while
they do their work. is surely quite
different proposition to what
great majority of our Kentucky
farmers are up against.
And the results are surely very
peroeptible to amy one travelling
over this country. The compare
lively fine farm buildings, the great
amount of live stock that can be
seen in the pastures, and the SEEM
ingly. general era of prosperity, the
much more even distribution of the
wealth produced among the people,
all attest the fact that farming is
much more profitable here than in
many of the States further South.
Here it seems that automobiles are
more plentiful than are buggies in
many counties in Kentucky.
The crops as rule we're not so
good as usual in this State in 1911,
yet We hear scarcely any mention of
scarcity of money on that account.
Crops here this season so far are
fine except corn, which is rather late,
owing to too much rain and the un-
usually cool weather that has con-
tinued until the last few days.
Summer seems to be coming in
reality now, and as result of the /.
warmer weather, the rye and hay |
harvests will be ushered in in a few |
days. There is a great scarcity of |
farm laborers here and in fact all |
over this Northwest country. AS a
result, farm wages are much higher
here than in Kentucky. The long,
cold winters OF this Northwest sec
ton OF our country seem to me to
be one of it's greatest drawbacks,
yet the temperature here in winter
is much more uniform than further
South, the winters are dry and
therefore there is no mud nor slush
10 contend with-some of the things
hat make our Kentucky winters
very disagreeable and unhealthy.
With the good farm buildings and
IN abundance of feed for stock that
Is so common here, l really believe
he people pass the winters more
than in more Souther-
y States.
The price of farm lands in this
State runs from about $40 per acre
n the. cut-over lands OF Northern
Minnesota to sl2o for the well i'm
,royed farms Of the Southern part
II the State. Fuel and lumber are
high priced in the prairie countries.
This is coming to De one of the
eading dairy States. which. industry
? not only very profitable, in itself
,ut enables the farmers to greatly
improve the fertility. Of the farms
hat have been growing wheat for