Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-01-03

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their great heights. each dking.
year from our door, they So the
more than thirty minutes w11
but in fact it i, several mil . - ned
base.
The overu helming invasion cf 49,
ist, and automobiles seem to rob 49,.
of q great deal Of their wild and ~
conquersble aspects. But their rugged
granduer and beauties can never d
wholly effaced Ly man nor time.
Lopg Peak seen to the southwest
from here. is 1890 feet high.
Tae Great Lincoln Highway which y
truly q wonderful road. passes ouf
door vending its way to the coast. -
an average of one hundred automoo''ss
and motor trucks pass on this highway
Zach twenty. four hours and during
Frontier Days" at Cheyenne, thirty
| four miles north of here, there passed.
by actual count, fifty TO. sixty caH
per hour for eighteen hours on three
successive days, this being On . direcs
route from Chyenne 10 Denver, 20
miles south of US.
This is a great country for wheat I
AID cattle. Some individuals rsisAH
AZ. 900 TO 50, 900 bushels Of wheat VINE
u, hers own ranches covered With thous-
ands Of cattle, Of course there ere
ranchers who range in both wheat ana
cattle from there down to the ma"
who keeps ten cows and raises twenty
acres of wheat. Beans are becoming
quite prominent crop in thss snoss
grass country. in fact, most any crop
Goes we'll here except corn. which does
not do will here, due to the absence Oh
warm nights which Is unknown De-
cause of the mouptain air drifting
down over the plains a1d e coon e
the sun is gone the warmth OF ne
atmosphere is gone. The oil import
ant problem the rancher hes to Crap
pie, is labor, and more especially new
that 90 many have been called to arms.
There is q fixed scale Of ten hours per
day for all labor in this State, but no
fixed scale Of wages. Nor does the
rancher say how much he will give for
labor but asks bow much will labor
work for Why! NJ boy AID ny
brothers boys from thirteen to sixteen
years old. received 500 per day and
for ordinary farm work and getting -
much Ms 500 per day in the harvest,
and mems wages in proportion to
these. an now foreman on the 7.
A. Quarter circle cattle and wheat
ranch. drawing almost double the pay
such work brings In Kentucky besides
having my saddle horses and aatomo-
biles furnished. l farmed last season,
raising 81, 900 pounds of bears, some
corn, potatoes and millet. OF course
bought oil feed. paying al high =
$3.50 per hundred pounds 1Ut--spsn
chops and $37. 50 per ton for hay. I. ~
high price of feed and labor creates y
demand for tractor farming. Therg
were twenty. six tractor outfits unloed-i
ed in our little burg the past seaso0s
besides great many in the neighbcr--
hood already. This land y easily cul-
tivated. One man can handle. even
With team much more crop than be
can there. They pillow 'eiie hnd- for.
wheat during the summer. SOW fall
seed any time from August to January.
next year they drill seed in stubbis
without working ground at oil. the
next year they disc the stubtle and
} drill and the next year they plow ii
sgain. Thus blowing only each third
year. They often prepare and SOW,
spring wheat on land and - soon .
b irvested drill fall seed in stubble Tn 4
getting two crops of wheat from [.
same ground in sixteen months. AftS !
5 ripening wheat will easily stand ureut
;, for six weeks without damaging, ex.
. cept for hail. This is called ne short
grass or dry land country. A ~
j miles sonth Of US begins the ifrigstsd
,, country. the north rim If the famou
E Greely district, on the lands Of which
i great quantities OF potatoes. befts.
6 cabbage and alfalfa are raised. ~
m6ch rs 400 bushels Of potstots pei
acre or three cuttings If alfalfa which
totals seven or mo he tons per acre
From the irrigated districts are
ma, keted many thousands Of sheep
viii ch are raised arc fed principally
on beet tops and alfalfa. However.
\ the amount Of cspital required for
equipment and running expsrr
make the dry land IA ming the H..
profitable to the average man. espect
ally the renter. as one can rent the
best improved land for one third Of al
crops the landlor furnishing sll seeds
or one fourth and the renter furnish
seed. One can get all the raw or IN
I'd improved land he wants rent free.
" II this finds space In your colum4e
:, may write again. next Zine Of th
~ towns and town indu1tr lee. mean,iQ
IS wishing the Reco I'd. Press and al \
a. readers q merry Christmas . nd - hs'
a. py New Year, shall remain
:. Yours
w A.