The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-10-18
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PREDICTS ADVANCE
! IN ALL DAIRY PRICES
Experiment Station Expert Says That
Products OF Lynden District Are
Bound To Advance

That dairy prices are due to ad
vance considerably within a very
short time, is the opinion of II. l.
Blanchard, assistant superintendent
of the Western Washington Exper.
iment Station at Puyallup.
Look out for a rise," says Mr.
Blanchard in the following special
bulletin issued this week:
''The natural effect of the present
war conditions is to stimulate trade
and thereby improve business gener-
ally. War conditions usually make
farming more prosperous. As one
of the results of the Civil War, many
farm mortgages were liquidated at a
cost of 40e to soc on the dollar. How
ever, the farmer ought not to forget
the burdens of war. These are felt
more keenly later in the struggle and
for years after the war is over. Losses
of life, and taxes incident of war con-
ditions, must be endured for years
after.
"These things, to the writer's mind
furnish strong reasons why farmers
should get busy and keep busy now.
The farmers present opportunities
are not likely to be duplicated during
his lifetime. Under these conditions
The people are demanding plain,
cheap and wholesome food. The
farmer must supply this. Our appeal
to the farmer would be to hold on to
the good dairy cows. Why? Be-
cause of the food value of milk and
its products. Unfortunately such
value has not been, up to the present,
fully appreciated by the general
public. Our government is very
busy enlightening our people in this
matter. The natural result of such
propaganda will be a greater con-
sumption of dairy products, and a
willingness on the part of the con-
sumer to pay a better price for the
same. With the Government sup
porting and boosting his business, it
is certainly not time for the farmer
or dairyman to lay down and quit.
There is reason 10 believe that the
speeulator is to greatly lose his
power of fixing prices of grains, feeds
and food products, and that the
Ga. fai ~ 6iaa1 He iC
in duty bound, however, to do what
he can for himself along the line of
producing on his farm the feed that
he needs, both for the family and the
animals.
.In case he has not already done
so, the farmer ought to plan his
seeding operations for the next year
without delay. There is much to be
accomplished thru fall seeding, and
fall and winter plowing for spring
seeding. Under this system max
imum production may be secured at
minimum cost. AS a protection
against a cold, late spring with pas
lures of short duration, a soiling
crop ought to be provided. for early
spring feeding. Fall rye and spring
vetch, to be followed by winter wheat
or winter oats and spring vetch, are
to be recommended. Seed at the
rate of about 40 pounds of vetch to
90 to 100 pounds of the other grains
for this purpose. Seeding may be
done between the middle of Septem-
ber and the middle of November
the earlier the better generally. Seed
the rye and vetch first and the wheat
and oats and vetch as soon after
wards as the land can be prepared.
The cutting of the rye may begin as
soon as it starts to head, in order to
prolong the feeding period. All
farmyard manure available should be
used and the best of tillage given to
promote large production.
1.-The prices of dairy products
show a fair advance over a year ago
and are likely to continue to advance
still more. The dairyman who can
and does produce all or most of the
feed his cows need should be able to
get satisfactory money returns if his
cows are dairy cows"