El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-14

4; two big sows. each Of which had eight
I or ten little pigs running with her
! The pigs were perhaps a month old
| Mrs. Young pointed to them, saying,
( We sold a pair OF those pigs yesterday
! for $50. That will give you some idea
of what things bring in this country.
An Alaskan Dairy Farm
/ Our next visit was to dairy farm
/ belonging to a Mr.. Hinckley- This
farm supplies much of the milk and
l cream consumed in Fairbanks. and il
} also sells butter. buttermilk and cot
Z tage cheese The milk brings 81 a gal
! Ion. and cream 81 a pint. Buttermilk
sells for 81 a gallon, butter IS cents a
pound and cottage cheese or smearcase
for so cents a quart We went with
Mr. Hinckley to the barn to look at his
cows He has twenty. which give on
the average three or four gallons OF
milk every p hours. The milking is
done twice day and the cows mad
been brought into the barn at the time
of our visit They are what YOU would
call good average stock in the states.
Car Barn With Stove and Windows
The COW barn is interesting It IS a
well built log structure. 20 feet wide
and 80 feet long. with the stalls fac
ing a platform which runs through the
middle about two feet from the
ground The walls are sunk in the
earth and the stable is floOred through
out with boards, the floors of the stalls
sloping TO the walk behind them. so
that they can be kept perfectly clean
The building has a galvanized iron roof,
in which are windows that can be
raised for ventilation. It is well light
ed. 1t has a large stove at one end.
but Mr.. Hinckley says that this is for
cooking the feed only. and that the
cows get along well without artificial
heat
Adjoining this barn is a hay shed
filled with native grass. just harvested,
and near il are large fields OF oat-hay
ready for cutting The dairyman has
not bought any hay for several years
He relies on the native grass and his
cat hay for his stock He says the oat
hay is quite as good as timothy. and
very much crisper. the timothy brought
in from outside selling for 800 per
ton. Shorts and oats cost respectively
$50 and s95 per ton
Business Mans Truck Farm.
Leaving the dairy. We went on TO
visit a truck farm which lies on the
very edge OF Fairbanks. This is q
homestead that was taken out ten
years ago by Stacia Ricl1ert. the wife Of
a business man Of Fairbanks It con-
sists of $50 acres of land, and it lies
within mile Of the center f the town I
Mr.. Rickert has built here a very pretty I
cabin surrounded by flowers. and his !
home is as well furnished and as com
Portable as that Of any well 10 do
farmer OF the states He has cleared I
about one fourth of his land. and the l
farm is one of the show places Of I
Alaska. The ground is as flat as a 4
floor, and as green as the valley Of the I
Nile He is now cutting Oat hay. Of I,
which he has many acres He has also :
great fields of barley and potatoes, the 4
latter now in full blossom.
The Rickert farm does a large busi /
ness in trucking and dollhouse farming.
supplying a great part of Fairbanks J
and shipping vegetables to the towns +
and mining camps for miles around 1t ]
sends green stuff TO Hot Springs and 4
Port Gibbon. and also to the gold mines 4
Of the Iditarod and Ruby. The freight I
rate TO Ruby is S32 a ton.
The gardens of this farm cover 20 /
Dr. 80 acres. AS we walked through /
them I asked as to the crops and was
told that there are now in the ground I
Is. 900 cabbages 10000 stalks OF celery /
and some acres of head lettuce The |
celery is especially fine, growing TO 4
height OF four feet. Some Of il vas
sent to Montana a few years ago to I
show what Alaska could do. and presi- !
ient Taft sampled il during his trip
through that state. He declared il the 4
finest he had ever tasted. Mr.. Rickert /
expects TO harvest about % tons Of
-urnips. five tons OF beets and 30 tons
u cabba yes.
Catalogues at 81 n Pound.
The hothouses are one OF the most