The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-11-16
DAIRYMEN MAY BUY
ALFALFA ACREAGE

To discuss the purchase of alfal-
ia land East of the mountains, TO-
gether with other problems of the
| farmer, the Whateom County Dairy
mans Association will meet in Lyn-
| den Saturday. Sessions will be
held at Jamieson's Hall, and all
dairymen are urged To attend
The following outline of the -
falfa plan has been prepared by H..
j. Clode:
How to obviate a repetition of
hay shortage in this county has been
discussed pro and con, but no defi-
mite plan was reached until the
Whatcom County Dairy association
held it's monthly meeting at Acme
Oh the fourth Saturday in October.
Then the secretary, Mr.. ]. P. Smith.
of Laurel. sprang a pan whereby
the farmers could grow their own
alfalfa at cost, laid down in What
com county of from sS to $40 per
ton.
at appears that Mr.. Smith and
Mr.. Douglas, who owns a neat little
herd of thoroughbred Guernsey COWS
al Ferndale got wind of a tract Of
400 acres of land that is for sale III
the Yakima country. This land was
reported as good alfalfa land; and
to make sure they were not being
told fish story, both Mr.. Douglas
and Mr.. Smith took a trip to Yak
ina for tie especial purpose of in-
vestigating. Mr.. Smith confessed
that he went pessimist, but came
back an optimist. He told TIE
dairymen at Acme that the land
was a sort of volcanic ash which
produced not only four crops of al
falfa, but the best corn he had ever
seen was grown in the neighborhood
of the 400 acres that is for sale.
Not far away from this tract
the dairymen of Snohomish county
have purchased 625 acres, all of
which they propose to have in al
falfa early next spring. NJ. w. H.
Tierney, president of the Snohomish
Dairy association, was at the Acme
meeting and stated that the farm
ers in his county had formed ;hem-
selves into a corporation and had
purchased this land for the express
purpose of growing their own al
falfa and strongly recommended the
dairymen of Whateom county to do
likewise and buy the 400 acres
while they had the opportunity.
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swallow the proposition then and
there, but appointed committee of
six to investigate This committee
act at the Leopold hotel, Belling-
lam, on the evening of the End in
slant, and threshed the subject out
until nearly midnight. 1t was fin
ally resolved to bring the matter
before the Dairy association at Lyn-
den on Saturday, and in order to
have some definite plan to lay be
fore the people, Mr.. o. P. Brown,
one of the committee, was instruct
ed to have articles of incorporation
reads so that if the farmers decide
to purchase this land PROMPT action
can be taken as the owners nave
only allowed a thirty days option
$50 now, Mr.. and Mrs. Farmer,
if you feel at all interested in the
proposition of growing your own al
falfa hay, be sure and attend that
meeting. All the details will be
explained to you far better than !
can do in the limited space of this
article, but / may mention that Il
the land is purchased the purchas-
ers will not have anything TO pay
tie first year excepting the amount
lecessary to put the soil under cul-
| ivation and ten years will be al
cwed in which to pay for the land.
"A large number of Snohomish
farmers merely took four acres
each. II is estimated that four
acres will produce at least two
ca rloads of hay which can be laid
down in Whatcom county at from
$S TO s10 per ton"