The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-31
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Puget Mill Company Pounds Community Farm for City Folks
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wss In . new world yester.
day.
No. Aenss; I don't sksdsddle
TO Mari or other planetary
sphsrss.
: merely csdiIfAesd for IS
minutes and entered the snowy
white portals Of AIdsr~ood
Manor.
The city editor burst In on my
Memorial day rsvsries yestsr.
day and said:
There's a new farm eommu-
nifty been started somewhere
near town. A wan'ii take you
out there In his machine. Get
yarn on H."
was FAR from amisble.
A perfect Memorial day.
squanoersd In bunch Of
stumps!
A. we sped away. the bouIe-
wards swarned with happy peo-
pie. The man with me rsnted
about fiIssrssi ignored him.
Have you ever dreamed you were
falling thru. and then awakened to
find you had kicked the covers OFF,
Well. that's the way l felt when
passed thru the white gate OF Alder.
wood Manor.
Instead OF the expected bunch OF
stumps. ! saw a group OF modern
buildings. Immediately white. with
green trimmings. Brown bark
paths separated green grass plots.
which were being spstnkicd by four
gardeners with regular city hose
garden. not sockl.
The Puget MIL Co. owns $4,000
acres OF logxed.off land between
Seattle and Everett. After employ
Ing exports for two years TO work
out Its plans. the company now has
announced its intention OF making
the "back-to-the-farm" movement
both possible and profitable.
The company will split up this
vas, area In fivc-acrc tracts. clear
the ground. stock the farms with
poultry and set out fiibert trees.
build house for the embryo farm
er. N he can't buSd one himself. and
then give him 30 or 40 years, at
small interest, In which 10 pay for
the property.
The idea In to Intensity farming
to provide for men and women OF
the city place where they may
live. raise all their own table prod
uce and get cash profit beside:
where the man may 20 to and from
his city work each day. and live on
land that Is always netting him
something.
He will give up none of the com.
forts OF the city. Electricity. hot
and cold water. telephone. interur.
ban--every advantage OF urban life
Ia At his door.
Experts investigating the best.
paying products with which 10 start
the people out decided upon poui.
try and filberts.
The filbcrt demand Is beyond the
supply. The climate OF tho Puget
sound region is wonderfully well
adapted to the raising OF nlberts.
The supply OF these nuts from Tnr.
key. England and Southern Europe
has been cut off by the war. And
there is no waste. as with fruit and
vegetables.
The company says II wants none
but deserving people on the land.
Plans are made TO gather these
Little IAnders" regularly into
classes. with expert instructors and
moving pictures. to teach them how
to work their tracts at A profit
! pointed to the nearest building.
That" said William Irwin. one
Of the men interested In the project.
and my guide. us where the Little
Landers' will meet socially and edu.
cationally. Young people shun the
farms because they crave amuse-
ment. Here they may dance. read
in the library. give entertainments,
or cit before tho huge fireplace and
toast their toes. Here also lectures
on farming will be given"
We passed out OF the artistic
building and up the brown path TO
a long white building. where 500
spotless White Leghorn chickens
dwell. They are the best fowls in
the country. selected by experts.
Each chicken has a separate nest.
and tho annual laying capacity OF
each hen In known almost to the
last egg. There are two OF these
long houses, and three more are
being built. Almost 1000 little
chicks play around in five big bresd-
err.
From . knoll I looked out
over the 10000 ac~es--the fu-
ture home Of hundreds Of "lIt-
tie larders."
On the right horizon, Mount
Rainier stood sentinei. Below
me, 1000 fIIbert trees followed
the lure Of the breeze. Way
down In the timber I heard re-
sounding blows OF an Ak.
I'VE have ten acres cleared
o. stumps now; we Will soon
have go" said Mr.. Irwin. my
little 7-yssr-oid girl calls this
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