The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-07-29
THE IDAHO ASYLUM FARM


sage brush from tract Of land East Of the village Of Backoot
which to ereo the state asylum for the farm has
always been maintained connection with this institution which
now comprises about two thousand acres and handled part
with hired labor and partly with the labor Of patients whose
don admits Of or requires door work Each year
Improvements are made the way of clearing and planting
lands, setting young trees and erecting buildings
The institution now has charge Of some ESQ patients which
it provides with home total coa Of 3b per day per
capita The institution practically all the fruit vegetables
dairy products and honey required by the patients and such
poye as make their home there Enough horses kept do
the farm work. and herd Of about wounded head Of cattle
chiefly duham are kept about twenty Of this number
orougbred and nearly all the Others grades representing
good values The value Of this stock being increased by the
the addition Of good Stock from tme and by saugheg
the inferior ones for consumption There also about
hundred and forty Berkshire hogs fifty fl-blood Ramboue
Sheep two dozen thoroughbred chickens and some ducks and
geese
The produdas Of the soil last year consisted Of six hundred
tons Of alfalfa sevenye tons Of cabbage fifty Of white
carrots twenty-five hundred pounds Of oxhea thirty -four
hundred and pounds Of tomatoes eighteen hundred and sixty
pounds Of lettuce two thousand pounds Of spinach hun
ded and forty pounds Of rhubal wenone hundred and ninety
pounds Of green String BEANS thirty three hundred pounds Of
cucumbers sxeght hundred pounds corn eight hundred
and evenysx pounds cauAower eighteen thousand pounds Of
onions twelve hundred pounds Of utabagas fifteen hundred
bushels Of potatoes three thousand pounds Of punes hos-
and pounds Of pms hundred and fifty pounds Of peppers
twenty thousand pounds Of panps three hundred bushels Of
pears hfv dozen mukmelon hundred and hyx pounds
Of gooseberes three dozen egg plants two thousand and thirty
one pounds Of crans hundred and went-sx pounds Of
of cherries seven thousand punches of celery fourteen thousand
pounds Of table beets thousand bushels Of apples two
thousand five hundred pounds Of honey four hundred pounds Of
tobacco thousand hundred and seventy pounds of
nps The yield Of sweet per three thousand and
forty pounds tomatoes fifteen thousand FIVE hundred and twenty
pounds hubarb sixteen hundred and sixty pounds peas sixty
six hundred and thry-seven pounds -..
This data was taken from the records Of the various de-
patment from personal observations in farm and garden and
from measurements Of tracts which products raised In
few instances, where the amount of last years product could
not be ascertaned the record Of the previous year taken
In gathering the above data culGng done, but
everything was taken Just appeared the records Of farmer
and gardener The measured were not selected because
they showed any especial advantages but because the bondar
les Of last years crop in each were known
tract of strawberries which has been bearing for ten
years be owed up this the plants having become
too old to bear WE'LL and tract has been this year.
There are about fifteen hundred apple the orchard and
by reason Of the uniform distribution Of by gation they
have made uniform growth and few any dead trees appear
Last year the trees the orchard loaded heavily that
all observers kened the fitage bananas the clusters hung
from the smaller limbs This year unusually late frost nned
out the blossoms that the over-done bearing
the fruit maturing The orchard has been enlarged this
year by the planting Of thousand apple trees which grown
in the asylum nursery at very little cost.
ten acre tract was planted forest and shade trees this
season. new dining and amusement hall being built
by adding story the present dining which 34x60
feet The electric light plant being doubled and cellars
and store rooms are being built 10000 bricks made
the asylum grounds last year which being used make these
Improvements.
The Republican office indebted to Dr.. Gvens, medical
superintendent J. E. Elen, book-keepeg Geo. L. Bumgame
steward Peter oenson farmer, Oliver Cooper, assistant for
courteses and assistance obtaining data
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