American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-10-28

Ito these MANY years. We never saw such a variety of
forage and grain crops collected in one place and this
must mean an ever increasing number of livestock to eat
it all up and bring back the money. There is no use talk
ing, a one crop system is unsafe economically because it
is wholly dependent upon the caprice of crop and market
conditions. The failure of the weather brings disaster
and likewise a dump in the market brings ruin. Within
certain limits such a system of agriculture is between the
devil and high ~water-facing either way one finds the
devil of overproduction or the deep sea of crop failure.
AL the eggs being in one basket careless handling of the
basket brings disaster. The one crop system of agricul-
ture does not maintain soil fertility. Any system of ag-
~riculture that permanently reduces the productive power
of the soil is a serious economic mistake. This one reason
is sufficient, if there were no others, to lead any thinking
man to say that the country which pursues such a plan
of agriculture is facing disaster. We as a people are too
wise to fall by the wayside in this manner.-Denver Field
and Farm.
A war tax in time of profound peace at the time the
sale of federal revenue stamps was imposed over a year
ago by the national administration was quite a shock.
The taxing of incomes of a thousand dollars or more,
which will hit the average bread winner, will come as an
other revelation of Democratic business inefficiency. The
administration is hard beset to devise ways and means to
raise sufficient revenue to keep the ship of state afloat in a
time of what should be the greatest prosperity the nation
has ever known. The free trade propaganda of the Dem
ocratic platform has proven not to be what was promised,
and the administration officials have reluctantly admit
ted that it will be necessary to restore the tariff on wool
and sugar. A tax on incomes as low as one thousand dol
lare in war-stricken England recently was considered a
national calamity. How will the peaceful American thou
sand-dollar-a-day wage Garner take it?-ldaho Falls
Register.
In fifteen years a Missouri Jersey has produced 1OS,968
pounds of milk and 5000 pounds of butterfat or 1888
pounds of butter. Her best years record was 1892
pounds of milk and 730 pounds of butter. During the fiji
teen years this cow, Grace Briggs, has given birth to
twelve calves. Her last calf sold for $500 and the average
for the twelve is about 5000. About 2,40O was obtained
from the sale of all the calves. Figuring the entire milk
production for the fifteen years at eight cents a quart,
the total would be $4,35872. The approximate cost of
keeping her was $50 a year or $3.50. The average daily
production of milk for the fifteen years was a little more
than nine quarts a day. If the butter had been sold instead
of the milk at 35 cents a pound, the total for the butter
from Grace Briggs would amount to $2,041.5 5.
The Nampa Leader-Heralds agely observes that if the
Democrats continue to get on Republican ground from
now until election as rapidly as they have in the past three
months, there will be no use of having any Democratic
party. ..