PLAN No. 774. COWS HELPED HIM
This farmer left North Dakota and located in the State of Washington. He states:
“I bought sixty acres of white pine and cedar stump land adjoining the station of Matchwood, about six miles from Sandpoint, on a 10-year payment plan, and in February, 1915, we moved up and began work on our place. We bought two Jersey cows. The first year, with a few days work on the outside, we were able to make a living from our two cows and about 35 laying hens. We were able to put up about twelve tons of good clover and timothy hay that we got with a hand scythe around the old logging roads, where it was growing wild.
“The year 1916 will be my first year with any crop to amount to anything. I have cleaned up in the past year about twenty acres, have thirteen acres sown in grain and clover, about seven acres to grain and root crops, and have thirty acres seeded among the waste timber and stumps for pasturage. My place is fenced and cross fenced, and I have running water on the place. In the past year we have sold over 500 pounds of butter, at an average of 30 cents per pound.”