The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-01-26
OkANOGAN BIRDS WIN


of fowls which won prizes at poultry
shows in Washington, Idaho and Cali
fornia. His black Orpingtons having
won several first prizes and medals at
the poultry show at Los Angeles, COM
peting with birds from all over the
states and Europe. He sold seven birds
to State Senator Black, of California.
for 51,100, one cockerel bringing $500.
The experience of Mr.. Nopp shows
what man of moderate means
and applied common sense and perser-
verence can do This news coming af-
ter we have taken numerous prizes on
vegetables and fruit exhibited at. var
i6Is places this past season should be
stimulus to the farmer and small tract
owner in the Okanogan.
We can raise fruit. That is the big
CROP. especially in the valleys. 1t
should be and will be the king crop.
But We can raise at the same time,
vegetables, poultry, and small fruits
and We should be engaged in these
more extensively. Our capital is idle,
we are living up what we have with no
income Buying our hogs and hominy,
bacon and beans, brooms and berries
seeds and sorgum, and feed for what
stock we have when we have the soil.
the water and all the conditions nee
essAry to produce these right here as
we'll as they can be produced in any
district.
OF course every one will not be in
terasted in thoroughbred stock and
plants, but time has proven that plants
and animils can be bred up and that
it DAYS we'll to do so. IN this age OF
horticultural lore [ hear intelligent
people laugh at the idea of of pedi-
greed trees. If you are not interested
in raising high quality of goods you
can at least raise enough for local con-
sumption of a lower quality.
What | want to say is that we are
not farming our farms; that we are
not using good business sagacity; that
We are extravagant and wastetul in our
farming methods; that we are just ly-
ing Supinely on our backs or mlSap-
ping our energies, burdening our land
and our little home with a big mort
gage as it can carry (waiting for the
opportune time to sell part or whole
instead of trying to make it produce
an income Now what can you do?
You can at least produce what you
consume. Yes, and then some. The
Spokane broom factory cannot secure
sufficient broom corn to supply its de-
mands. We have thousands of acres
of $50 land that will produce $40 to $50
worth of broom corn per acre and our
irrigated land will pay good interest
upon the valution. The writer has
seen it grown in numerous places in
this state, has raised it himself that
would surpass anything show at the
State Fair, and eastern people, eXper-
fenced in raising broom corn pro-
nounced it the best they ever saw.
This can be raised on the unirrigated
upland as we'll as irrigated land
Annually we send from Okanogan
county for field and garden seeds,
$4,000 and a similar amount for sor-
ghum Both can be raised right here.
Good too. | am speaking from exper-
fence, not from heresay or theory. We
send out of our county annually $4,000
for leans, which do we'll here and can
he Grown on uplands as well as he ir-
rigated lands. We send out $500 per
year for brooms and for smoked meats
$4,000. These figures are Gully APP
proximate. but l think it conservative
to estimate that we send olt nearly
SO for every man. woman and child in
this county that could be- aud should
be kept at home. The merchant should
feel duty bound to keep money at
home and buy from our western fac
tories that are Disseminated against
by the railroads just as much as he eX-
pects the consumer to spend his money
with the local merchant. Eggs, butter,
canned goods, should be produced at
home. More stock should be raised
and c. higher grade of stock, more al
falfa, clover and grain ha.
There is no reason why every man
on farm can not have his own hay,
meat, eggs, milk, butter and vegetables.
l am surprised to know how few peo-
pie have berries. rhubarb, asparagus
and a large variety of vegetables. One
family was telling me that all they
had to eat was potatoes and they
owned a rich tract of land and a good
water right. they could have had a
"dugcut" with dozen different kinds
of vegetables in it.
These remarks do not apply to some
Industrious gardeners, who make every
turn count nor does it apply to those
who labor in vain with unfavorable
conditions, but to those who can but
wont, or at least don't do anything.
| say congratulations Mr.. Nopp you
are Z real benefactor to the race Keep
at it and the reward is yours God
helps them who help themselves
By way of diversion l wish 10 suggest
that the time is ripe for a county fair
association to hold annual vents to
encourage diversified and intensive
farming, including the fruit industry
and stock and poultry business as we'll.
and the first townsmen to see the i'm
portdrce of such an organization for
Oroville and will organize with this
obi ct in view will he the first to re-
ceiYe the support of the whole county
and to profit thereby.
DOOLEY P. WHEELER.