The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-09-16
LEADER VISITS NORTH sIDE
Potatoes, Oats, Wheat and Any Ole
Thing Grow Fine.

oO DuSnelS OF oats per acre, threSl
. ed and sacked away ready to sell
from land that was in sage brusl
four months ago
Red clover making its second cut
ting, alfalfa the second crop and de
veloping a fine crop of seed, tn,
first year, from land that was II
sage brush thousand years old
last April
A potato field covering 40 acres
and as full of fine, mealy spuds as
bank is full of money, this, too
on raw land this year
These are some of the things tha'
have been achieved on the NORTH
Side tract, along the line of tho
Idaho Southern railroad from Good
ng to Jerome and Miner, land tri
butary to Gooding as its final our
let, and just the same soil and eli
mate and people as those that sur
round Gooding on every side as well
as extend to Richfield and al thru
the Idaho Irrigation company lands
The Leader representative visited
Jerome Thursday the guests of Prof
w. E. Guilford, director of the ex.
perimental work of the North Sid
company, and saw 4hese things a
they are. They look good, too, to
the eye long trained to see the thing.
that are hoped for here in Idaho
but which only now are coming te
pass. It's good for sore and tired
eyes, and for the optimistic spirit
that has had to wait a long time tc
see the realization IF its dreams
The North Side company has main
tanned an Agricultural department
this season at a cost tha thas rur
up as high as $4,000 a month, JUS
to show the people what can be done
in the way of producing in this sec
ton of the state, and to keep then
in heart to do the same things fol
themselves. A wise selection was
made when Prof. w. S. Guilford, ar
Iowa boy transplanted into the high
priced irrigated lands of Colorado
was engaged to take charge of the |
work He has some able assistants /
men who can make things grow or
a smile and tear-and they fur
nish the tear, if necessary, to start
the seed to grow. Hon Eugene
Grubb, the great Colorado potato ex-
pert, one of the greatest potato ex-
perts in the world, is on the advisa-
tory staff Prof. Fritz Knorr is an
other man who has done some good
work here; and the whole force has
had the one idea Of doing things"
for the farmer of Arid Idaho.
rhe crop yields are enough to
show that they have not been unsuc-
cessful.
On the Wendell farm, there is a
field of 4 acres of potatoes, thu.
will probably yield from 200 to 300
bushels per acre. This was on lane
cleared only last spring land that
hadn't had enough water in cen
tury, to spoil good charge Of gun
powder Dry? ?-Yes, indeed, it was
dry, just like the typical best aric
land to be found anywhere -wne e
the irrigator can control the mois +
lure according to the needs of his
crop, as closely as the jew sler can
regulate watch. Forty acres Of t
potatoes will produce hardly less
han 10000 bushels, quite 4 stack a /
good things to eat And they are g
caho potatoes Just like the mama E
on SID to the NAM iox who twit .
cd Fti with her one little cub at +
,rfh, whereas the fax family had a n
lozen or more 'Yes, but mine is 2 Il
icn,' was the signifis+l- reply of il
he nam lion So .hs;s are Idaho T
puds, the finest that G y.r grew r
Mr. Grubb has been developing a
ew Peachblow potato, based on the t,
Id time favorite Peachglow of our X
athers and grandfathers. that is be- /,
lg grown in quantities on the COM r
any farms. Retaining the beauty II
nd quality of the parent stock, it al
a reiuvenal and uniform-sized po- 81
ITO that captures the markets G.
it goes. The once typical in
good potato country that could fe
roduce a few spuds foot long and n,
5 big as section of cord wood, is to
wing place to mOre rational ideal m
excellence country that will is
roduce a uniform-sized potato with G.
, big ones, no culls, but everything al
lst right for a single portion to TO
rive at dinner table. The big hs
)tato that has to be cut, and so tr
aste@ some otis quality n or r.,
,od, nor is the little fellow OF mi
oscopic size, for 1t represents too m,
uch work to prepare. The potato wi
at grows to a medium size, with a m,
rye number of uniform tubers to 10,