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And I put down my book well satisfied. 
There seem to me too many iron men. 
They start with the faith and hope and 
joy of youth, but they permit the oxygen 
of the years to gnaw into them and rust 
out the iron until they find, too late, that 
the pipes which ought to carry the best 
of childhood to their declining years are 
nothing but rust. They have been eaten 
away. Then there seem to be men like 
lead pipes. The oxygen of disappoint¬ 
ment, trouble or failure attacks them, but 
they only make a tarnish on the outside 
—just a film which protects the metal, 
and so all through the years they may 
still draw the healing waters of faith and 
ho e from childhood! I think that 
thought is worth dreaming on, and I am 
off to bed. There is yet another point 
about solder. The way it melts to hold 
other metals together seems to me much 
like the continued influence of mother 
and father in the home. But then, you 
have had too much sermonizing already. 
H. W. C, 
Notes from a Sagebush Schoolma’am 
We have had no Winter here in Ace- 
quia, Idaho, and now we are enjoying 
Summer days during the first part of 
April. We shall probably have a cold 
snap immediately after this warm weath¬ 
er. In Idaho if you have good weather 
for a few days, you may be sure of bad 
weather for a few days, but I like better 
to think of it this way—no matter how 
had the weather in Idaho, it is soon fol¬ 
lowed by delightful days. 
The farmers are all busy with their 
planting, though in a leisurely way, so 
different from that of the farmers in the 
part of the country from which I come. 
There it is rush, rush, rush. Here the 
farmers continue to go out socially, as 
usual, to the picture shows, and to 
church. There, when crop planting be¬ 
gins, every other activity ceases «o far as 
the farmer is concerned. All such inter¬ 
ests are carried on by the 'women alone. 
No one would think of trying to enlist 
the farmers in the work of raising money 
for a church. Yet that is exactly what 
we are doing here. Tonight I meet with 
a cast composed of two farm women, my¬ 
self. and 10 farmers, to rehearse William 
Dean Howell’s “Sleeping Car” farce, 
which we are to give to help raise money 
for the building of a union church here. 
It is true that the farmers here have a 
great many cows to milk, but their crop 
is not so varied as in our district. They 
raise some field corn for the sheepmen. 
Great bands of sheep have gone past the 
schoolhouse continually this Spring, on 
their way to the range. But the greatest 
crop the farmers here raise is that of Al¬ 
falfa. And Alfalfa, once planted, need 
not be reseeded. They raise three crops 
of Alfalfa each season that average a ton 
and a half to the acre. This is a dairy 
country, but there are no silos ; the cows 
are fed almost entirely on Alfalfa and 
chopped corn, far from the ideally bal¬ 
anced diet. It is the little cheese fac¬ 
tory here that is the making of this coun¬ 
try. It was the pioneer cheese factory 
on the Minidoka project, and was estab¬ 
lished less than 10 years ago. Today the 
Acequia cheese factory received 1,300 lbs. 
of milk and made it into cheese. I was 
just talking with the manager. This is 
something of a record. This cheese is 
shipped to Paul, and thence to San 
Francisco and Chicago, where it passes 
through the hands of the big corporations 
and is made into fancy cheeses. Then 
we buy it back at fancy prices. This 
cheese factory has meant everything to 
this section of the country. Down near 
Hazelton scarcely a farmer has his taxes 
paid. Here, there is the remarkable 
record of all taxes paid. I wonder if 
Eastern sections can boast as much? 
Every farmer here has his milk check. 
He has not even the trouble of separating 
the milk, as is the case when the cream 
alone is sold, and he may take home, 
free of charge, all the whey he can 
carry. 
The manager of the cheese. factory told 
me that one man here receives a check 
for $375 every week for his milk. His 
income from his cows is $19,500 a year. 
He feeds them on the economical and 
comparatively easy crops, Alfalfa and 
chopped corn. He said recently that he 
is going to feed his cows more scientifical¬ 
ly soon, but that he is afraid to go into 
it all at once, as his cows already give 
so much milk he is fearful of forcing too 
high production. This sounds rather un¬ 
reasonable to me, but people better versed 
in dairy subjects will have to settle this 
point. One of his cows has to be 
milked three times a day. I saw some of 
his animals, and I never before saw more 
magnificent udders on cows. He is milk¬ 
ing 21 cows, and has 23 young heifers 
coming on. If the cows continue to pro¬ 
duce, on the average, and the heifers 
prove to be as good, it can be seen what 
a desirable income this man will have. 
News of this ought to cause a rush of 
city folks back to the land. It always 
looks so easy from the outside. 
And if the city folks want to rush any¬ 
where. Southern Idaho is a pretty good 
place to come. All this region is suffer¬ 
ing from the after effects of the war 
boom. During the war land went up as 
high as $600 an acre. Now excellent 
land can be purchased for as low as $125 
an acre, improved. It would be a god¬ 
send, particularly to the region around 
Hazelton. if farmers from outside would 
come in there and purchase half of each 
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