The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-29
Crop Yields i'm Idaho.


state printing stories of the agricultural yield of
the fields and the following encouraging evidences of
important development have fallen under the eye
of the editor:
Burley Bulletin: George Helowe1l, local field sup
erinendent for the Blackoot sugar factory, reports
that the outlook for fine sugar beet crop on the
Mindoka project is irst-cass The company
tracted for over $50 acres, experiment. at Ru-
pert and Hepburn, and there are 275 acres under
cultivation Mr.. Hellowel states that the farmers
are giving close attention and taking proper of
their beets The expense of the crop here is less than
in older communities there is little wedding to do
Mr. HelloWell put in forty-seven acres himself and
has good stand on forty acres The entire cash
outlay for the forty thus far has not exceeded
$4,000 and the beets have been thinned and cultivated
three times, SO he is likely to clean up nice profit.
American Falls Press: Between American Falls
and Rockwell are fields of dry land wheat now being
harvested which it is believed will yield fifty bushels
per acre, and there hundreds of that will
average better than thiry-ive bushels. This wheat
is growing on land that was thought to be worthless
tor agricultural purposes few years ago, and is SINH
lar to and adoins large body of land that is opened
to settlement on the 9th of this month
In company with Claude B. Smith, Sunday. the
writer rode for nearly two hours through such fields
stopping occasionally to take pictures of the fields
which will go far toward convincing the skepti-
cal that the finest kind of wheat can be grown in the
ARID district without irrigation. Meadows & Walker
have the largest field several hundred acres grown
on land leased from the state. They have the
ualy propose to have it all in cultivation They be-
gan farming this tract three years ago, increasing
their acreage each year Their first crop about 800
acres averaged tWenty-three bushels. With each
cultivation the amount of moisture absorbed and re-
tanned by the soil is increased and this year they e-
pect an average of thirty five bushels or more
George Wood probably has the best field, but it is
small, embracing forty fifty acres, but is con-
sidered 6fty-bushel grain throughout.
Martin earn has two three hundred acres that
will go from twenty-five to thirty-ive bushels about
nd fall
Many others have fields substantially as good as
these.
The first dry land grain, was grown here six years
ago, as experiment The results were such that
thousands OF acres are now in cultivation and yields
have increased as dry farming methods have become
better understood. 1t is not uncommon now to hear
the OLD settlers remark that they would not irrgate
for hay.
Rupert Poneer-Record: The Pioneer-Record
challenges any section of the irrigated west to show
better grain than has been raised this wear in the
vicinity of Rupert. John McCoard living three miles
south OF town, has large field of oats that will aver
age i've and half feet in height and in some places
IN nearly SIX feet and the heads are large in pro-
portion There are other fields in the same sec
ton, wheat and oats that have reached the same mag
n1lcen development and yields of 100 bushels of oats
to the acre are expected. When men walk through
these fields their heads all that is visible above the
grain
This grain all raised without surface rriga-
uon receiving no moisture except what came up from
ny ouO-iI ISdtlOH' LII the spring some OF the
heldS were SO wet that the owners expected their
crops would be drowned out, but when they shut the
water OFT from their laterals it began to subsde
Now the surface of the ground in most places is en-
t1rey dry but it is constantly kept moist to within
an inch OF the surface. The owners of this land
are elaed believing that in future they will only need
to run water through few bitches over their lands
In other sections of the project is apparent that
crops will be raised by sub-rrigaton while in some
sectons the land lays SO high that probably it can
not be irrigated in this way