The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-25
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UTILIZING THE LAND

UTILIZING THE LAND
That changes must be made in
farming methods to make the lands
now valued at $500 to $3.50 per acre
yield profit, is certain. That prof
Its can not be made by permitting
his land to lie idle one third or one
half of the time, is evident. Livestock
seems to be the only solution.
Sunday the writer spent the day on
a farm of TAO acres on which there
was $50 acres of grass for hay and
pasture and the farmer has 40 head
of splendid cattle He summer fall
lows a portion of his land each year,
but hopes to change conditions so
that this will not be necessary.
When he gets more stock he believes
1T will not be necessary to summer
fallow any of the land, but by rota-
ton of crops make it produce either
grain, pasture or hay every year.
This man has been raising cattle
for number of years and prior to
the time he raised cattle he bought
steers and fed them on his farm and
made a profit. But he found he could
not always buy steers or other cattle.
Some one must produce them. So he
planted the low lands on his farm to
grass. These low lands produce the
finest hay and pasture but are not
good for grain. II have often had
the wheat fall down in these low
places and did not get more than 10 |
bushels per acre." said he "and that |
cut down the average yield, but
grass solved the problem"
Since he began raising or keeping
cattle on the farm this mans yield
of wheat per acre has increased. The
ground yields better, if livestock run
on it. He has threshed as high as
Cd bushels of wheat per acre after
pasturing the wheat Is to 25 days in
the spring. Last April he pastured
40 head of cattle on IS acres of wheat
for Is days and the wheat looked last
Sunday as if it would yield better
than 40 bushels per acre, without
any more rain.
People will tell US that this does
not pay, This farmer says he has :
been told repeatedly that this does
not pay. A college professor from
the agricultural college at Pullman,
tried to show him that it did not pay /
to have 100 acres out of 740 in grass
for 40 head of cattle, but he feeds q
his work stock, his milk cows with y
this hay, cuts no wheat worth So per
oushel for hay and will probably L
have several hundred dollars worth
IF hay to sell. The writer knew this i
nan 20 years ago when he was work +
ng for wages on the TAO acre farm :,
lie now owns. Today he owns the
arm, the farm equipment, two splen-
lid sets of bull dings and a fine herd
# cattle and enough horses to till G
he land and he paid big income tax a
N his net income each year. There az
S the answer to the question "Does /.
his method pay?" 10
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WHERE MISTAKE WAS MADE
Where the allies have made the =
reatest mistake from the beginning
f the war until now is in not being su
bic to realize that the Germans are q,
OF human. The allies have tried &C
II the way through, to treat the Ger Sp
hams as. human beings, with some o oo
ense of honor but it seems they have Of
cen mistaken. They have shown 30
-om the time the Belgian treaty was ~
anounced by German army officer thu
) "only a scrap of paper" until the adj
mixing of the German war ships at dec
r they had been surrendered in the Dor
ost cowardly manner, that they can dis
It be trusted any more than rat t ha
snake nee
1t has been cult,-almost i'm trio
ssible-for men like Pershing Foch, "a
all Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd 4
Gorge, to realize that they were '"e
aling with people utterly devoid !
any sense of honor and capable of W.
any crime if they thought r Tow
~ could escape punishment for it. "a
For generations the Germans have Toy
IN taught one thing above all 9TH mil,
until it has become secondGf not Tes
ST. nature to them, and that is to %
" their masters and to place the ton
rman states interest above every one one