The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-05-19
SEATTLE PAPER TELLS
OF LYNDEN'S MERITS
Post-Intelligencer Devotes Column
to Article on District; Tells of Lo-
cal Industries


were the subjects of a column article
appearing in the Seattle Post-Intel-
ligencer yesterday. Frank M. Dali
lam. assistant to the editor, who Wis
tied Lynden last week, is the author.
Said Mr.. Dallam:
Hollanders are the people who in
vented thrift. And Mother Neces-
sity can count that invention as one
of her progeny. Large families COM
= PEELED to exc out an existence on
@1minutive parcels of land in a heav-
lily congested country had to find a
way to keep requirements within the
purchasing power of small incomes.
A proud and self-respecting people,
they fought for economic independ-
ence with the courage and indom-
liable spirit that they fought for and
obtained political and religious liber-
ty. Thus thrift became a national
virtue which Hollanders have carried
with them as distinguishing char
acteristic wherever they have gone
into the world.
Lynden is the center of large
Hollander colony and the very ap-
pearance of the town, with its clean,
paved streets. tidy stores, pretty
homes and well-tended yards and
gardens, denotes thrifty, indus
trious and progressive population.
The same evidence of frugal care, of
painstaking industry and wellbeing
is presented by the appearance Of the
farms surrounding the town. The
fruitful soil is well titled, the abun-
dant crops are carefully cultivated,
the farm implements not in use are
Sheltered against corroding elements,
the homes and farm buildings are
roomy and substantial, and an air of
prosperity pervades the entire coun-
tryside.
.- Since fully SO per cent of the farm
is Hollander and since the
Kohl and climate are particularly
adapted to the growing of forage
crops and the raising of fine cattle,
it is natural that this should be the
center of the dairying industry of
Whatcom County. Since the people
are thrifty, methodical and hard
working, it is also natural that the
other principal farm industry here
should be poultry raising. And again
for much these same reasons, tOgeth-
er with the fact that small fruits
may be produced so abundantly here.
it is inevitable that berry-growing
should be an increasingly important
development in this section.
1t is at Lynden that the Whatcom
County Dairymen's Association has
located its milk products plant and
creamery, and the Washington Co.
operative Egg and Poultry Assocta-
tion has built one of its six egg sta
tions and a poultry-dressing plant.
The milk products plant represent
ing an investment of 100000, Is
constructed of brick tile and con-
crete and is now manufacturing but
ter and powdered milk. The What
com County Dairymen's Association
has nearly 1900 members with prac-
tically $4,000 milch cows.
The poultry fattening and dressing
plant, built at cost of $S,Ooo' IS
equipped to receive, kill and dress
: 900 birds a day. The poultry Is TO
,,ybe fed two weeks before killing. Ar
rangements have been made to sell
the feathers as by-product. After
killing and dressing. the birds are
frozen and a large cold storage room
ia proyided in which to store them
for sbipment. BY arrangement with
the dairymen's milk products plant
situated nearby, buttermilk for feed
ing the chickens and steam for dres-
sing them are piped into the building
and connections made with the freez'
ng plant. M,
The poultry association has 22S
members sending eggs and pouitr'
to this plant. They own a totai o.
100000 chickens.
LINDEN has population withii
its incorporated limits of 1,5oo ahe
ia the trading center of commun
,tv of about 5000 people. 1t ma
rail transportation and paved roas
connections with all the other I'm
nortant towns of the county. In ad
dition to the milk products and tn
poultry plants, there are lumoe
and three shingle mills in and nea
the town.
The Whatcom County Fair Assoc
iation holds its annual fair here.
ia rated as one of the best agricul
,. tural fairs in the state in the dispia
I*of farm products and of livestock.
The town is located short dis
tance from the Canadian boundar
and the claim is made here that IN
way to Vancouver, B. c. frol .S
seattle is sixteen miles shorter thr