THE OMAHA SUNDAY HKK: APRIL 24. 1010
(RIVEN, THE MCLE BREEDER
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Missouri Kan Traniplanti an Idea to
Faslare of Idaho.
0X1Y THE BEST GOES FOE HTM
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TWIN KAl. Idaho. Apr. I K.-Tliry krmvr
tin, In UiMhi. Hi- name Isi J. V. I'nvtn,
fJo WniF', i . ar,l only a fw j mrj ago
t.t a one if tho.-t carload ali!p;-r ln;j
th Mmk a:dx. A carluad trnjijtr tr.al
Hf ' ..:;) hhijip) r " lie un humcf that
it, ' Maliu rlin.aie m high; lack humidity,
and that the hheru raiding l dry ira.
"damned Jry work, sun." H- a.i it tliat
may l(uw he in iransr.'.anti-'J from Mil
.'.irl '"a dry pari of Mirauuruli. suh."
W aniJidlj. when he to.d in thai he a
T rth llSu.'.'W). I a Kulity of a drlio!oui
111 le sli.vr. 11- di'Ui'l look II. f r a faoi.
But he had xi f iur to cuurit up tne num
Lrt of t.l.t jrm.', d.dii'l know ixa.-ti.v ho
n.any axrt l ieie aie In Hum. a id tin-K it
"mt-bhe he tuuitl snare a Miiariei m.i
lion, if li vi m(sa:y, ruh Me I
really, truly chica.ttr fiotn Ihe old went.
Hip boot 1' iiie to h km-e.-; hi wlde
brlmmefl poinhrero. lu In (r. -V clsar In
Mk mouth. Ju-Cannun-wiM . a'"' a '.n.u.ir
little trtrh of poif .iii; hirrwif on hl tjes.
Ugt.t, ray eli.tliit-.n. a Mrin; neckti- and
mr abid.i.t; affer.ion for 'my wife and
iW n. sjlj." Ivfme and plai hl-n a. nr.
oia-fashloned nia:i. one of thoau we uei
to like to think we would glow up to he.
fatn we were young.
Halara rare-Bred Jark.
' I know more about jacka.es man any
thing elst 1 j;urn." he aid. And. sure
enough, I found out that he run an eighty-
ie farm Just to raise thoroughbred Jai k
eses. "I raire nothing but the purest strain of
black, mammoth jjckf. In my experience
1 think I have dtscovtred tr.at the berl is
bone too good; In the long run they are
less trouble, puy a ireater pioiit, are
easier to lak rare of and never all for a
market. 1 fetl that I would like to tell
farmers who experlnent with lor-giaded
stock that they arc dlasiiatinc their re
sources. There 1 nothing to this second
class protoiOtlow any time anywhere. From
a second-cls.ss man to a sheep, they are all
the same lots of trouble to raise and not
worth much when you do get them full
grown. I'm from Missouri, and I am used
to routes. My Idea In going into the Jack
breeding busintsa Is that I euuld promote
the mule industry In these western states.
The horse business ia being looked after
by men Ju.-t as goad as I am. And I find
that the class of mare out h re In the
t west la about the equal of those In the
central Plates. There was no one looking
after the mules, and I thought tnat was my
sphere. Besidts that, a mule is really
more serviceable than a horse. When the
Joke writers, who ought to be in the cult
corral with the thing they make fun of,
att through pokiDg fun at the mule, we
will wake up to find that we have been
abusing' one of the best animals we have
In America today. Uncle 8am baa found
that In tbe Pltilipplnea, Cuba, throughout
the souLa, In the army in fact, anywhere
you put him, the mile give greater service
than a horse, lasts longer and In the end
Is more economical. A mule, too, is more
Intelligent than a horse. Out here In the
west a mule la used oa all the combined
harvesters; on the railroad construction
work, and wherever there Is a great deal
of work to be done with less show and
ir.ore get there to it. A horse prances
around. looks pretty, Is petted, while a
mule gets down to his work and does It.
There is no qvestion that a good mule, of
good strain, is worth any two horses that
ver came on a farm.
Money la Males.
'Sometimes I have more than 100 mules.
But Just as soon as I get accustomed to a
bunch of them along comes somebody and
wants a half dozen or so. I bate to let
'em eh after 1 eel used to them. Most al
ways it's a contractor who wants a real
good animal to do aome real hard work
and hasn't time to fool wtlh horses. Then
again lt'a the government. 1 gvej. along
right smart, too. that way. I raise and
ell almost every year from seventy-five
to 109 mules and It counts up. You see my
mules are all first class strain, and for
young, unbroken stock I get as high as
I2i a head. This Is about the same price
s we get in Missouri. But It Is pleasanter
living out here. I've got a prettier home
for the same money than 1 could get In
Missouri und the aide chances for monei
making are better here than back east. 1
like the mountains, the river, the clear,
blue sky, and the mild summers and win
ten.. I get along first rate. And I am
making aome money every day, loo.
"My Jacks 1 sell to farmers. A lot, of
them will go In together and buy a Jack
for breeding purposes. For those I get a
sure gnt out of my line when I went Into
the sheep businee
"No lr. 1 stick to mules. Mules are a I
rlBht. And for about r x months It took
al! of them to pull me out whple on that
sheep business "
And he smlld.
Rear la Maay l.laee.
j Mr. Craven is a 1, .!. -nan. FlrH of all
I he has his tr,u. Then l.e Is a banker,
j 1-elns; a nockholder in the Hank of Hol
! lister. HoV.lster. Idaho. Thn he Is a big
sto khoM-r in the To in Falls Bank ami
Tru. enmrary. a bark that Is erectinc a
steel frame ard rranite hank building here
In Twin Falls, a ton which si years spo
was a sagebrush plain without a single
stick of wood, without a lngle brick on
ett 1 cell as many as lorty ol them to
different farmer-companies around the
country. That way I am really doing some
good, the way I like to do It. You see there
Is a w hole lit In doing, what you like to do.
I'd rather take less money to do a Job 1
want to da anyway than more to do some
thing i don t want to do. And I do like
to raise mules and Jacks. I won't let a
poor strained animal live on the place,
from a sheep to a mule; from a mule to a
mansiiot no ue for them. I get along
with the thorvughbreue, all right, and they
don't sting me.
'This climate out here is fine for tnul.it
and stork farina. There's Co anl.nal tuber
culosis. The animals thrive, uo well, and
I don't have many loaaea. It's a nice, clean
buairuas and I like it.
"Of course there's a lot of people who
make fua of my "mule love," as they can
lu Hut anything out of the ordinary wl:l at
tract attention. And. Just (he tame, it pays
Dlffrreat with Sheep.
sue. and I reckon I can atand 1L
"It's different with the sheep business.
IjOIs of people make money In the aheep
business. And 1 thought I could. But I'm
for leaving each mau lu his own trade now.
I never had bo much gr.ef lu all my life.
Why. suh. when I got through with them
cussed sit-i, I was ten years older, and
tt.K In the hole. You see. it was like this;
sas to myself; 'there's lots of people
lii Idahs. loo.' tt I saya la myself: 'I can
make It. too." Weil. I bought about a
thousand head. They stood tne three and
a half a head, and 1 pastured mem on a
eight) -acre alfalfa fle.d. 1 noticed they
didn t eat right good, t'on-.e fii.d out,
they were old ewea. with old ba. and no
teeth. After wintering them 1 c-gun to
pasture. And Just afier the lambing sea
son 1 eould go out in the morning and aev
em rear up on their Mid Itgs and drop
dead. fcJveiy time one dropped 1 had a
heartache. It was wotse than going lo
Omaha with a carload and getting mixed
VP with same friends." Those sheep cost
(e three and a half a head. 1 had kept
n all winter, and erery time one of 'tui
ed over It was coating- mi three and a
AWr real money. 4 fie to fnd out they
staivltig lu d.ia out there In alfalfa
i-.ee deep. 1 lost the whole business. 1
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its present site, nor within twenty-five
miles of it. Then he is president of the
Idaho Department store, one of the rich
est, most beautiful general merchandise
stores in the entire Ftate of Idaho. Then
he is vice president of the Twin Falls
La nd and Orchard company, which is
planting hundreds of acr to commercial
orchard. To sum It all up he is a director
In seven more of the largest corporations in
Twin Falls, Idaho, and one of the most
substantial cit'.iens of the state. On top
of it all. he Is a city councilman, and has
been ever since the city was incorporated,
being regularly returned to his job be
cause he does it well.
To tell the plain truth, I never saw a
man more simply honi than hls sturdy
TWIN FALLS, IDAHO
CRAVENS TOWN HOME, AT TWIN" FALLS . IDAHO
the traf that's worth millions todav and
v.ill be worth twice a much more pretty
soon. Why, man, when 1 first came out
here It v as all Omaha. Kverything 1
wire, or anhoIy else wore, cam'1 fi-om
OmahB. Nowadays, we rartly hoar f
Omaha. What's the m&Uef? Are all your
pet pic aslo-p. t'er:alr.l . It looks to me
that you are overlooking a stent bits bet
when y.itt don't con-.e aft r the trade that
is plainly In the Omaha Krritcty. Why,
over at our bank we nend lots of tlr.tfts
to Kaiiffs t'lty. and 1 declare that I 1j
believe that there's hurtiredn of thouends
i.f dollars light here In Idaho thai your
Omaha business men could gi t if they'd to
after it
By the way, there is a big question In
what he says. He knows And I, myself,
have stoprx-d to think and ask the ques
tion: "What's the matter with Omaha?"
8lr.ee coming out here for The Bee I
hate met commercial men from all of the
cllles Mr. Craven mentions, ancl I have
found dorens of men from Chlc.igo. Some
day I shall take a day rf and discover
why Omaha has surrendered all this val
uable and profitable trsde to competitors
who certainly have no natural advantage
ought to keep his word" and that a fellow about the snowy peaks, the green valleys he looked at me quinically and said: over the old town. Salt Ijike City wasn't
modern pioneer, with the air of that other who den t k.ep faith with his friends is and the sparkling brooks, with the frrvor "Look here. Why don't your O-nsha born when omana was a nig town, i nniK
west all about him He is so old-fashioned "worse than a rattlesnake." And with it. of a poet, though there is nothing of the business men send their drummers out sny of that for a minute. And you will do as
that he thinks that a "public office is a all he has a real affection for the blue poet's Impracticably about him. more. Here's Salt Lake City and Oglen I did; re-echo Mr. Craven's question:
man skies of this intermountain country. Talks He is a hard-haaded business man. And and San Krancisco, ail oi mem peiung
public trust"
He believes that
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Wheat has yielded as high, as 78
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bushels Is a common record.
Potatoes yield as high as S50 bushels
to the acre In the Snaae River Valley.
Five hundred bushels to the aere
is a common yield.
Alfalfa yields as high as 9 tons to tbe
acre. Five tons is a common report;
Is Indeed the lowest average.
Red apples do so well that one man
(name on application) netted 1100.00
per acre from ten acres oaiy four years
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Timothy yields as high as 3 tons to
the acre; clover up to 5 tons to the
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