Year: 1876

when they complain Of less than 90 bu.


of wheat, 35 Of barley and 40 of oats, per


acre, as very light crops the wise men of


the East smile in disduin and regard


them us afflicted with n mild type of


lunacy for expecting them to believe


such fabulous stories. When lecturing


on the climate, soil and productions of


the Puget Sound country, in Ohno, IN


diana and the Dominion Of Canada, Il


little over year ago it required all my


reputation as n Christian minister to


make the good people believe all the


wonderful facts which told them about


our mammoth pumpkins, squashcs, tur-


nips, carrots and beets, the extraordinary


produCtvencss of our orchards and the,


to them, fabulous magnitude of our APP


pies, pears, plums, cherries, Strawberries


&c. l need not tell yom about these


things because you see some evidence


concerning them here to-day, and you


IRE quite familiar with all the facts.


But there is one thing which needs to


be impressed upon every farmers mind


so strongly that he can never forget it.


If you wish our Territory to maintain


her present proud pre.emincnce, do not


fail to manure your soil and rotate your
crops. have noticed some fine Or
chards already running to decay, because
no fertilizers have ever been applied to
the soil since the trees were first set out,
and the pruning knife has not been
freely used. Such neglect is sure to


bring on the one inevitable result. 1t is
II very simple matter TO put under each


tree half a wagon load of the manure
that is wasting in the barn yard, or OF
the muck from one OF the swamps or
swaiIs on your farm. If you can find
time to bury it among the roots all the
better, and if in addition you go freely
through the decaying or entangling
limbs with the pruning knife and saw,
you will be amply repaid for all your
trouble by the improvement in quality,
certainly, and perhcps also in quantity,
of the first years crop. A good orchard
is IA good and sure fortune in this part of
the world if properly attended to, And
40 acres of our rich river bottom or
swamp land, cultivated upon scientific
principles is better tian twice that guam
tity where long cold winters have to be
provided against. Our mild winters
give cattle, horse and sheep raisers
great advantage over those who are
to make slaves of them selves
all summer gathering food for their
stock during long and severe winter,
With good range young cattle and
horses, and sheep of any age, can keep
in good condition all the year round
SO that our farmers need only to stall
and feed their milking cattle and work
ing animals. Vegetables, fruits, grains
and hay, in short every production OF
the farm command high prices here. A
fortune awaits every farmer who pays
proper attention to poultry raising and
the manufacturing of cheese and butter.
And he who will spend few hundred
dollars in the importation, and proper
care, of improved stock, whether cattle,
horses, sheep or hogs may soon become
q rural nabob. Good stock costs very
little if any more to raise and care for
than inferior animals, and the owner can
always command for them the very
highest price. All of which being con-
densed into few words, means, that
stock raising, dairy farming, fruit, grain
and vegetable culture carried on upon
proper scientific IN d practical principles
will each and all pay handsome profits
to the Puget Sound husbandman on
every investment of capital and labor,
provided, First: That he attends strict
ly and faithfully to business. Secondly
That he does not run into debt, for no
farmer can possibly pay our high rates
of interest and have anything left for
himself. Thirdly: That he does not |
employ too much hired help. FourthIy:
That he does not undertake to operate
upon too large scale. AS u general !
rule 40 acres properly cultivated will
pay larger and more satisfactory returns,
than 400 acres cropped in the ordinary
way until they have become barren and
untruitful. And 20 first class milch |
cattle ora worth moro fn tho lo;,y 10.