Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-12-05

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~tt"ttA Nttl grow one aud fsso
crops on any land that win GROW
winter wheat.
Il car he ground into meal 10 feed
hogs and chickens.
Alfalfa in money value ia worth
- per cent more than clover and
60 per cent more than timothy.
One acre viii pasture thirty hogs
for sis months. Ten, mich COWS
can ne ted on less than two acres
BY soiling. Three pounds per day
ma Ike fun iced for fastening
i~Fnns- Four to five pounds makes
FUN teed for fsstening aged sheep.
Thi1ty-tive pounds makes fun
feeo for fastening steers. A lamb
VIII winter and thrive on two
pound per day. Sheep fed on
altsifs viii gain from eight to
fifteen pounds in seventy five days
and double that with small grain
ration added.
Steers will put on pound to a
4 pound and a half per day on
straight alfalfa and il fed grain
rations will put ON double that
amount.
Lambs wintered on alfalfa will
produce one TO two pounds of wool
more when on the range.
Brood Sows will live all summer
on alfalfa pasture alone.
Horses have been known to put
on six pounds day where grain
ration was fed with it.
Alfalfa is a great poultry feed
when cut fine and mixed with corn
meal. This is also good way to
feed it to hogs in winter.
To give an idea of what an acre of
alfalfa will do | will quote from
figures made some time ago.
lone acre irrigated alfalfa will
produce 10000 pounds; one acre
in enclosed pasture will produce
500 pounds; one acre range will
average production of $50 pounds
one acre of irrigated alfalfa will feed
one steer 400 days; one acre of en-
c.osed pasture. will feed one steer
20 days; on acre of average range
xviii tecd one steer ten days.
Putting ii in the form of sheer
il will show as follows; $50 acre:
irrigated alfalfa will run 1000
sheep one year; 100 acres of closed
alfalfa will run eighty sheep fol
one year; 100 acres of range will
run forty sheep one year"
Apply these figures to the stool
growing in the arid reg lions, taking
the proportions given above in
round numbers and 100 acres o
irrigated alfalfa will carry 14t
steers for year and it would re,
quire something over eight sections
$40 acrcs-ot dry range t,
carry the same number of cattle
or putting 1t briefly, one acre of irri
gated alfalfa is worth as much al
thirty-two acres of average DIR,
range.
A windmill which will irri
gate an acre of alfalfa will ad;
the equivalent of thirty-two acre
of range to the farm or ranch. Al
eng inc and pump that will irrigat
ten acres of alfalfa will add half
section 10 the farm. That is il will
increase the productiveness a.
much as IT will the acquisition o.
additional land.
A pumping plant large enough
to irrigate twenty acres will ado
the equivalent of whole section o
range.
And any Irrigation system which
will irrigated whole quarter sec
ton of alfalfa is as good as thu
permanent acquisition of eight sec
ton of range. In other words
section of alfalfa is the eouivalen
OF 20 900 acres of range as sourc
of food supply for stock.
Those figures are -.worth--study'
ing. They show that srca
many of our livestock men arc wor
rying about more range and sebem
ing and planning to get more prof
table land when they would lind i
easier and more profitable to irri
gate sorne OF the land they alread
have and get better returns from IT
The money lost last winter il
eastern Montana and Dakota il
winter losses on sheep and cattle
if spent in retaining and seodin
alfalfa, would have raised enoug
To have fed every boot OF stock i
the district six months, and tn
land so improved would be sourc
OF revenue afterwards with tn
good prospect would double in val
ue. ...
If water here can be bough
on the land at from SIS to $50 pc
acre ong full crop would pay for tn
entire cost of construction.
The feeding of cattle and shee