And the Fauioiis Paloiise Counlry 15 



corn for grain on land that will grow 60 bushels of barley to the acre. 



- But more cow feed can be grown per acre with corn 



°^" °*' right here than with any other crop. We have grown 



Fodder. ^^^^^ every year since 1893, and have never failed to get 



our silo full of first-class ensilage. The smallest yield we ever had 



was 10 tons of silage per acre. 



Livestock in the Palouse Country* 



There is no question that we have here a magnificent livestock and 

 dairy country, unexcelled anywhere. Mr. Wing said of it: "In all 



Palace Hotel, PiiUmaii, Wash., Theo. T. Davis, Troprittor. 

 the long journeys I have made, I have never seen anything that 

 seemed to me to have the natural advantages forluim m life and occu- 

 pation than this Palouse country has. The only uncultivated land is 

 along the lower slopes where the rocks may outcrop. The soil is dark 

 brown. It is rich. It is immensely rich. It seems hardly affected 

 by the twenty years of cropping, as yet, and the ci op is wheat. It 

 seems to me that here is the best place to build ;i stock fiirm that I 

 have seen on this trip." [Mr. Wing, when he was at Pullman, had 



