Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-31

will serve in so far to increase the
value OF these farms.
Line fences seldom prove source of
4 trouble when the men owning the land
on either side are willing to he on the
square and to treat the fellow on the
other side as he would have the fellow
on the other side treat him.
With ditchers getting 81 n day and
/ board in some sections of the corn belt.
it is not difficult to see that the farmer
who has from 30 to 100 acres of corn
to husk in the next few weeks Is going
to be up against a very real PROPOSE
ton.
! There is reason to suspect that many
driving. after an interval of no exer-
else. when the real cause of the death
Is q fuddled and senseless brain on
the part of the driver due to too much
booze.
shipped the other day from Albany.
Ore. to Wisconsin buyers. the value of
the shipment being 900. Some
farmers in the vicinity Of Albany real
lied from $1,000 to $1,000 for their
crops of clover seed.
1t is a pretty safe plan when stran-
gers call at the farm home to keep
them out of the house. and this is es.
pecially so II there are no men about.
If they ask for drink Of water let
them drink it on the doorstep. and If
they begin to inquire whether the men
are ut home it is time to pick up club
or set the dog on them.
One corn belt farmer who has an
extensive oak grove in one Of his pas
lures estimated the acorn crop at 200
bushels and proceeded to utilize 1t by
turning in some 400 hogs which he
was planning to fatten for market. In
view Of the fact that acorns are esti-
mated to have feeding value several
times that of corn, bushel for buShel,
a snug sum will be realized from this
native nut crop.
crop was well matnred and that the
first killing frost did not come until
Sept 81. there We're still some farmers
who put Off filing their slos so late
that they had nothing but frosted corn
to shred for their slage II the first
frost held Off until Thanksgiving there
would probably be few farmers who
would not get round to the job of fill
ing their silos until two days after.
The yearly salmon catch in the Pu-
get sound and British Columbia wa
tiers Is valued at $15.000.OO0 The fish
ing season lasts a month and is busy
one most Of the work in the canneries
being done by Japs Many of the fish
are seined under certain limitations.
while many others are taken in the re-
volving traps or wheels which work
on the principle of a water wheel. the
fish being caught in compartments on
tiIc I'LL vi Tie W utCl. CIV ulCu anu
dumped into Enclosures. from which
they are taken as wanted.
A farmer whose case was reported
to the writer the other day seems to
be making the mistake that is typical
of some farmers. Instead of having
say. couple Of gasoline engines on the
farm. which in good conscience ought
TO be a-plenty. he has nine and on top
of this has lately added an expensive
oil tractor and blowing outfit. a fell
low can have too many gasoline en-
gines. Just as he can have too many
dogs or other things and unless he has
a pretty good sized bank account he's
quite likely to have some hard shedding
with such an outlay rs this
A rather interesting case was decid-
ed couple of weeks ago mt Green
wood Mo-. Involving the right of
telephone comp1ny to set poles In front
Of ii farlne"'~ residence. the doing Of
which seriously injured some fruit
trees which Stond on the edge OF the
highway inst outside the farmers
fence. When the Judge heard the
ground for the farmers complaint he
ruled that the trees belonged. rs did
the road. to the county and were not
the property of the man near whose
place they were growing. On this
basis any taxpayer had just as much
RIGHT 70 gather the fruit as the suppoS-
ed owner.