The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1917-11-15
Beet

OF Alfalfa 10 sell tnlS season. beet
growers ought to make from fifty TO one
hundred dollars an acre after paying for
seed snd specialized labor on the crop.
Growers Of white and red clover seed
for the market often average one hun
dred dollars an acre gross income.
Beet lands on which alfalfa has been
grown a number oI years, rents for fit'
teen to twenty dollors an acre cash rent.
Land we'll seeded to alfalfa brings ten
dollars an acre cash rent, for hay alone.
A we'll improved stock ranch, seven
teen miles south Of Shoshone, and three
miles from Jerome, recently sold for
two hundred dollars an acre and the
prices still going up ali the time.
Government land banks are appraising
farms ten miles west Of here at over
one hundred dollars an acre without
counting buildings.
The western wool growers are laying
it over the ranchsrs when it comes to
velvet profits, Tremendous prices for
wool and mutton tell the story OF pros
perity for them. Their f)cks need 10
be fed only while the snow is on the
ground; the remaining time the open
range and the Federal forest reserves
in the mountains to the north OF US
furnish rich pasturage with compare
lively little cost. Beef and pork rails
ers are also doing well, but the dairy
men do not get the high prices for their
products that the high price Of all feed
entities them to get. Their turn will
come later. Labor Of all kinds is very
scarce ard high. Three dollars day
and beard has been the prevailing wage.
We employ Swiss dairYman at seventy
five dollars a month with board. He
milks all our COWS twice a day and
spends over FIVE hours day on the
milk delivery route besides feeding etc.
The Truman boys are doing we'll in
their chosen voca;ions. Rex enlisted
but the authorities sent him back to
county agricultural work in Sheridan
county, Nebraska, Virgill is superin.
.tendsn. Of city schools in Albion, Neb'
raska. In is still manager Of the
Truman Dairy ranch.
Milk sells at twelve and one hall Gel S
per quart or forty cents for gallon cans.
Whipping cream is forty cents a pint.
Eggs were sixty cer.s dozen last wtn
ter and are nearly that now.
Tne late cold sfring held US up fer
hay at thirty dollars a ton for enough to
last until grass could grow, Cattle
we're shipped through here toward the
south, 10 get them Gu, Of the snow al
ter they had been without feed for days.
After spring arrived the season has
been warm and late. Ripe strawberries
we're picked as late as October 18th.
they were CT the ever bearing kind. |
have been eating luscious tomatoes Ter
over two months.
My brother, Rev, o. H. Truman,
has been spending the year with me to
recuperate from ministerial work. He
goes to southern California TO spend the
winter. His daughter, Lille mauitd d
an electrical engineer who works in
the copper mines Of Arizona and Old
Mexico. The younger daughter, Nan
ME, married a very prosperous real es-
tate operator and they are living at La
Crosse, Kansas.
In regard to the war l have favored
| il from the first. And have been
able to forecast some Of the important
military moves Of the belligerents since
the mighty conflict started. There eau
be put one ending-the triumph ol
democracy, right and godliness over
autocracy, ruthes;ness and depravity,
With kindest regards, remain the
friend CT the Ozarks,
o. A. Truman.
Something a statesman seldom de