The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-12-26

| what Whitman county is to eastern
Washington-its bread basket" the
leading wheat-producing area. Soil
and climate are almost identical in
| Whitman county, Wash, and Latah
| county, Idaho, for only the ''imagin-
airy line" of the state boundary d.
vides them and soil and climate are
| the same on both sides of this line
| Whitman county, Wash, produces
many times as many bushels of wheat
as Latah county, because it has a
much larger area, several hundred
| thousand more acres in cultivation,
and is devoted almost exclusively to
wheat growing and in that last SEN
tence is Latah county's advantage.
for wheile Latah county produces
more wheat than all other crops COM
bined, it is many years ahead of
Whitman county, Wash, in diversi-
fled or balanced" farming.
| lived, farmed and did newspaper
work in both these great counties for
number of years and tits refresh
ing and inspiring to return after an
absence of several years and to see
the encouraging advancement that
has been made in balanced farming"
Latah county probably always will
be a great wheat-producfng county.
1t should remain the leading wheat
producing county of northern Idaho,
if not of the entire state, for nowhere
in Idaho, or any other state, for that
matter, can wheat of better quality
be produced at less expense. If it
becomes impossible to produce wheat
at a profit in Latah county, Idaho,
and Whitman county, Wash, where,
may we we'll ask, can wheat be pro-
dueed at a profit? Surely the world
must have wheat and if the districts
where it can be produced at the low
est cost cannot produce it at profit,
then, indeed, is the situation con-
fronting the wheat growers and the
consumers of wheat serious one.
1t is contended by those who are
demanding relief for the wheat grow
err, and that means every business in
terest of the west that all of the
remedies now suggested, including
price fixing, higher tariff, lower
freight rates, etc, ''are only temper
great fact remains that the wheat
growers need relief now and they
will not spurn temporary relief
There has never been a time in the
history of wheat growers in the In
land Empire when even temporary" |
relief was as badly and generally
needed as now. Temporary relief will
help over the depression now so gen
eral in the wheat producing districts
and it is hoped that with the cutting
down of the acreage, the raising of
more crops other than wheat, the
farming of all the land every year
instead of summer following one-ha1f
or one-third, or any considerable por-
ton of it, will bring permanent re-
lief.
The Cow, Pig and Hen
Latah county is solving the prob
lem in this way, but the problem is
not yet solved, although the solution !
may seem nearer Marked advance |
ment has been made in balanced .
farming in Latah county. "The cow !
the pig and the hen" have taken up
permanent abode in Latah county.
Beans and peas have become an /
important crop. More corn is being |
grown than ever before and the acre !
age of alfalfa has shown a wonderful /
increase.
The fact that one seed firm shipped |
into Moscow last year seven full car
loads, averaging 10000 pounds of al .
falfa seed to the car-enough to plant !
5000 acres-gives some idea of the
increase in alfalfa acreage during re- /
cent years. OF course all of this seed
was not sold in Latah county, but
enough of it to plant several thousand
acres was Sown and planted in Latah
county and alfalfa has been planted
IN steadily increasing amounts for
several years until now it is really
)ne of the important crops of Latah.l
county, which formerly shipped many
of baled alfalfa from south.
srn Idaho to feed the comparatively
ew dairy COWS in the county.
More Dairy Cows
And the dairy COWS have increased
aster than the acreage of alfalfa La
ah county is awakening to the need
If more COWS and better COWS. One
irm, or one man, has shipped into
Iatah county within the last few
months 319 dairy COWS from western
Washington and he wants 1000 more
o supply the demand. Creameries at
1oscow, one of which was started
My a few years ago, are getting
lore than twice as much cream and
lilk as they got one year ago and
9th want more Each of these two
reameries got more cream in1922
han they both got in 1921 and each
OF twice as much in 1928 as in 1922,
ct the demand cannot be supplied.
prices are higher and feed
cheaper than two years ago, so it is
asy to realize that there is more
rofit in dairying now than then.
There has been some improvement
many lines. There is more poul
y, not much more, but a little more,
1T the egg production has more than
,ubled, for the excellent work of Mr.
arkhurst, head of the poultry de-
artment of the University of Idaho,
Id o. S. Fletcher, county agent, a
al, live, honest-to-goodness" coun-
, agent, who really accomplishes
suits, are being seen in many sec