The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-16

Wash, and ii is doubtful if beets could
,be raised profitably here to be shipped
that far for sugar making pursposes.
But it is certain that the raising of
more livestock on the farms of Latall
county can be made profitable and that
the raising of some kind of crop that re-
quires cultivation can be made more
profitable than summer following. We
suggested that more COWS and hogs be
kept on the farms of Latah county and
that peas, corn, beans, rutabagas, stock
and sugar beets be raised instead of
summer following the land that needs a
rest from wheat.
Bean and pea straw are found to be
| fine feed for cattle, and hogs can be
used to gather up the wasted peas and
jbeans on the ground after harvest. Sugar
beets make fine feed for both cattle and
hogs. The tops, when mixed with alf-
alta. corn or pea straw makes fine silage,
the best kind of winter feed for cattle.
Many sugar beet growers of Yakima
county, Washington, harvested p tons
of sugar beets per acre this year A Jap
hnese received S11,5OO for the beets
grown on So acres, which is a little
more than $500 per acre, and he had
the tops left for feed for stock. Per-
haps half this yield could be grown in
Latah county 1t does not require an
expert to realize that half of this kind
of crop would pay well here.
1t was demonstrated in the vicinity of
Waverly, Wash, when the beet sugar
factory was there, that land that had
produced a crop of beets, always pro-
duced a heavier crop of wheat, oats or
barley than land that had been summer
fallowed The writer made thorough |
of beet growing there and |
one of the most successful beet farmers |
said
Probably the greatest profit we get
from our beets is in the increase in the |
yield of grain the next year. If we
made nothing from our beets the larger
yields of grain from land that raised
beets one or two years would give us
a good profit
In those days the farmers got a basic
price of 81 per ton for beets and wheat
was worth from 50 to 65 cents bu
shell Beets now bring from 81 per ton
up, according to percentage of sugar,
and wheat will probably never sell I'M
der 81 per bushel in the next 10 years,
so the profits in both beets and wheat
ought to be greater
Beet pulp is we'll known as a splendid
food for cattle Dairymen used to take
heir herds to Waverly and buy the
pulp for feed for dairy cows or. have it
shipped to them in carload lots The
pulp is the meat of the beet after all of I
he sugar has been extracted. How much
oeeter stock feed must the whole beets
chopped, instead of ground. and contain
ng all of the sugar, be than this pulp.
The experiment ought to be tried in La
all county extensively next year. |;
"a "a - II
VOLUNTARY MEMBERSHIP
One year ago the writer was at Colfax, r
Wash, when the membership drive Of 2
he Red Cross was in progress. ColfaN |
5 an enterprising stown and has the
right spirit The suggestion was made
nat the membership drive be conducted
II different lines from those usually fol- !
)wed and that only volunteers" be adj A
lifted. The suggestion met with favor y
nd it was announced that no one would v
: personally solicited to join the Red d
ross, but that Colfax was expected to =
AXE a showing of which the citizens i
ould be proud. c.
And it surely did. a!
A Red Cross booth was opened in a ~
nvellient place in the business sec r
III and the newspapers announced that II
olfax citizens could go there and join. th
omen volunteered to work as reg-i ~
rars and changed shifts frequently so NJ
at the hours were not long. Colfax
S no daily paper but it had two weekly
d one twice-a-weck newspaper and
ay called upon the people, reminding ",
en- frequently of the drive No COM nj
tees were sent out and no personal
LITIGATION was done. At
When the drive ended Co1fax had what ",
S believed to be a record member
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS