j6 Pullman, Washington 



just passed through California and Oregon.] 



Dr. E. N. Hutchinson, inspector in charge of the work of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry at Portland, Oregon, says that the section between 

 the Cascades and the Rockies produces the healthiest mutton in the 

 world, the sheep being freer from parasitic diseases than anywhere 

 else in the country; and he ought to know, for he inspects the carcass 

 of every animal slaughtered at Portland. 



The System or Farming: for the Palouse Country* 



The system of crops best adapted for a livestock farm in the vicinity 

 of Pullman would be about as follows, i6o acres being taken as a basis: 



Reserve ten acres for yard, barnyard, garden, orchard and runs for 

 calves, pigs and chickens. Seed down to permanent pasture the low- 

 est portions of the farm, say 25 acres, using timothy, red top, blue 

 grass, meadow fescue, Italian rye grass, red clover and white clover as 

 a mixture. Divide the remaining 125 acres into five fields as nearly 

 equal in area as the configuration of the land will justify. On these 

 five fields grow a rotation of wheat, timothy and clover, timothy and 

 clover (2nd year), oats and pease (for hay), corn and potatoes. About 

 one-third of the manure should be plowed in in early spring on the 

 field that is that year to be sown to timothy and clover, the remaining 

 two-thirds to be put on the 2nd year timothy and clover sod and 

 plowed under in the fall before sowing pease and oats in the spring. 

 With this system any one field will be in wheat one year in five, fol- 

 lowed by two years in grass, one in pease and oats, and one in culti- 

 vated crops. The rotation maybe varied by replacing part or all the 

 wheat with barley, flax, rye, oats, or spelt. Any of these last named 

 may also replace the oats and pease, and be used either for grain or 

 hay as convenience may require. Corn and potatoes may, as occasion 

 requires, be replaced by sugar beets, or root crops for sheep and 

 cattle. 



The yields from such a system of cropping that a farmer may fairly 

 expect, with good management, are about as follows: Wheat, 35 to 

 45 bushels per acre; first year grass fields, abundant fall pasture; 2nd 

 year grass field, 2 to 3>^ tons of hay per acre, with abundant pasture 

 after haying; pease and oats, 2 to 4 tons of hay per acre \ox barley 60 

 bushels, or oats 60 bushels); corn (for silage) 10 to 15 tons per acre; 

 potatoes 150 to 300 bushels per acre; carrots or mangels, 20 tons; sugar 



