Show LONG loi DRY SPELL unprofitable while the office man mail and those who cladell in cities are arc basking in the glorious autumn weather the farmer is complaining and well he be might t tor for not only are the beet fields hard and dry but the fall all grain has sprouted is doling nothing in the way of 0 growth and getting firmly rooted I 1 for or the winter the writer enjoyed the pleasure of a ride through the valley on wednesday I 1 and out there the need of a good coaxing rain storm is apparent on every side farmers who had not the courage to take a chance on irrigate 15 1 fl their beets once more p s weeks ago are experiencing a real job to get them plowed out of the ground and riding a beet plow is like attempting to sit a bucking bronco As a result the supply of beet plow points has been used up and the implement houses declare they cannot get an anny more front from the factories and so the tanners farmers are experiencing a real jot job in harvesting their liet which at best are arc small thus reducing the tonnage about fifty per cent me roads are almost a bottomless dust pit and they will bo be worse norse in a week or ten days under tinder the co constant wear of the heavy traffic incident to hauling haulin beets over them A good rain and a heavy drag upon them thereafter would improve the highways everywhere the most moat anxiety however Is felt tor for the tall fall grain which had there been a heavy rain a few weeks ago and then this line fine weather would have made phenor phe nominal ninal progress As AB it is the grain has edine come through the earth crust and is nok now beginning to wilt because of lack of moisture the nights are not cold to the dew necessary to freshen it up tip so there is little or no growth crowth bei being ng made fall pastures are dry and the file country everywhere Is crying for moisture the weather IT exceptional for one thing however and that Is for harvesting etin g the apple crop the apple growers in the valley are getting their fruit picked and boxed bo aed ready tor for shipment in splendid shape and some excellent fruit lias has been produced this year at the van allen alien canning companas comp anys plant in tremon ton a large force of young ladies is kept busy every day wrapping apples tor for a big los angeles firm which makes a practice of buying up as many of the apples ot of that section as it can every year the fruit Is excellent this year though there are still some home growers who have not become converted to the fact that they can only grow first class fruit by adopting sanitary methods of keep ing their orchards free front from diseases |