And the Fanwusi Palouse Country 



made livestock farming more profitable than exclusive wheat grow- 

 ing, the farmers are beginning to learn that they can not handle 

 p. rp such large areas to advantage, because they have not 



the amount of livestock required. The result is that 

 " * improved agricultural land, as good as can be found in 



any Eastern state, can be bought for $15 to $25 an acre, and occas- 

 ionally for even less than this. This is improved land that is all in 

 cultivation, there being practically no waste land. 



Coinl iiied Header and Thresher in Operation near Pullnian. 



Character of the Soil. 



In a former geological age this whole region was covered with 

 ■molten lava several thousand feet deep. The lava rocks which every- 

 where underlie the surface at a depth of fifty to a hundred feet or 

 more, are arranged in layers, and appear at the surface only on the 

 sides of canyons. The soil has l)een formed by the disintegration of 

 the surface of this lava, and it has a texture wholly different from any 

 soil the writer ever saw east of the Rocky Mountains. There is ab- 



