Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-08-23
AT THE ASYLUM
Brief Review Of Work Being Done
There by Dr.. Hoover.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS MADE
ALI Of Which viii Add to the Comfort
Of the Patients Good Results from
the Orchard and Farm.

guests Of DIR. and Mrs. Hoover al
the Blackfoot insane asylum las,
Saturday night and for few hours
Sunday morning, and it Is with
pleasure that we are able to tell the
doctors many friends III Bear Lake
county that he is doing grand
work in the management Of the
asylum farm and in the care of the
unfortunate ones at the institution.
The first reform, and certainly a
humane one, that the doctor inaug-
urated after taking charge was 10
rid the institution of bed bugs,
which required the expenditure Of
over $500. The buildings are now
free of these detestable insects and
the proper remedies are used to keep
them that way.
y A new Webster heating plant is
now being installed and the bath
and toilet rooms are being fitted
with the best sanitary devices. The
kitchen has been removed from the
second story to the ground fcor and
large steam cooking apparatus has
been installed. The old pine floor
ing throughout most of the build
ings have been replaced with hard
wood floors. Many other minor
improvements have been made
about the buildings, all Of which
add to the comfort 81 the patients.
These improvements will cost in
the neighborhood of $4,000 or
$4,000 more than was appropriated
for the work by the last legislature.
However, the doctor assured us that
the next legislature will have no
deficit to make up, as the extra &-
pendlture will be met bv the sale Of
products from the asYlhm farm and
orchard.
Improvements have been made
and are still being mad E about the
farm, as well as the bui ldings. One
quite large section of the farm,
which has been laying idle ever
since the asylum was established
there, is being leveled : nd will be
seeded TO alfalfa. IL is tough and
barren looking ground now, but
within few years it will be pro-
ducing immense crops of hay. and
adding to the revenue of the institu-
tion.
The dairy has been improved by
replacing Short Horns with thor
oughbred Hols,eins and lpst rear
for the first time in the history oil
the asylum, the dairy supplied all
the butter needed for the tables.
Last year the wheat yield was suf
ficient to keep the institution IN
-four for ten months, but bis year
larger acreage was put iI and the
cid will supply them with aoul
ra full year. This year 23 acrel
sown to oats and acres tc
lev, both of which crops will re
enormous yields. As the eos
threshing these crops woulc
bunt to several hundred dollars
doctor bought a hora ae po~e
"a feshlng machine, which win NOR
an pay for itself IN two seasons
sides the convenience Of beinl
lie 10 have the grain threshed jus
hen they want II.
This year enough hogs have bee
Used to supply the institution wit
} the pork needed.
Last spring 40 acres Of the farr
were leased 10 the sugar compan,
for three years for SO per acre eacl
year, and 1000 tons OF beet pull
each year for cattle and hog ieed
! In the garden is to be foun
owing every variety Of vegetabl
t.an be raised IN that particula
There are beans, celery
.ero& plant, oyster plant
power PliaOwer. pepper.
power
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