The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-07
WOMAN WITH HOE
IS GREAT FACTOR
In Fact, She Has Made the
Nan With the Hoe
Ashamed.
IDAHO WOMAN GIVES
VALUABLE IDEAS TO WORLD
Cultivates Small Tract of Land
and Receives Unusually
Good Returns.

Everybody has heard OF and reaC
about the Man with the Hoe. but few
ever hear Of the woman with the hoe
and she is just as great a factor as tht
man. More so, in fact The speaker
was Eugene II. Grubb, the potato king
of America, and he was talking with
The Tribune about trip he had Just
made in Idaho. He had been over the
Twin Falls tract and made short stop
IN Zion while en- route TO his home MT
Mount Sopris farm, near Carbondale
Col.
Yes" he continued .'the woman
with hoe is a wonderful fact, and
what she accompIshes when she under
takes to hoe the field is simply astound-
ing. North of Twin Falls on the north
SIDE tract near Hillsdalc. lives James
atherton. He has fine farm and il is
under a high state of cultivation. but
am sure that this is due to his good
wife- The Woman with the Hoe. Nof
that she performs the hard work of
1iiiing this farm, for her portion of the
farm over which she reigns supreme is
PM two and half acres, but the con.
dlllons on this farm show that she is
The real guiding hand. She has sent
the man with the hoe back to the foot
OF the class
What Returns Are.
On this two and half acre farm
Whlch she conducts personally herself.
does all the work In it herself with
the noe, she will this year realize $1,000.
She is natural soil culturist, this pio.
hccr IN agriculture and gardening in
southern Idaho, district only watered
Jast year for the first time, and she has
demonstrated and accomplished greater
success than many a gardener in Older
HpNDInrnI Gold
turc '"'
10 enumerate the various crops
winch this woman, Mrs. Jennie Atber.
Ton, has grown this year is like reading
2 seed dealer s catalogue. On June 30
crop OF early garden peas was har-
vested, new potatoes, beets, carrots, on
ions, ready for market. early sweet
corn all in tasseI, with fulI SET re Of
ears sticking out. This woman with the
poe on this tract has done all the
hand work herself, seeding, hoeng. ir. |
1lgating some two and a half acre rows |
ol various varieties. all artisticallv trim
and straight and with irrigated soil
ana cultured methods so perfect and |
PfacIcal that the man with the hoe
Is ashamed OF his work.
Valuable Ideas to Farmers. X
This woman s work has demon
etrated some very valuable ideas TO the
farmers Of that empire of agricultural |
possibilities III southern Idaho. notably I
the growing of onions. as onion seed
sown year ago, onions wintered over
III the ground are now fully matured
and ripe, ready for market at splendid
prices IL opens up vast opportunities
Tor future supplies thus carly in the
season Tor profitable gardening in this
5ine, and this woman, the woman with
the hoe, has proved it,
nf l.
communion with nature Creating
tmngs herself, com bined with the health
Ihis outdoor life gives. of independence
free from the beck and call TO tvne.
writer IN an office. or behind the conn
ter In city store at wages simply per
mlttng an existence. All hail 'The
Woman with the Hoe
About Potatoes.
AS TO potatoes. Yes. I grow them
had last year ninety acres i'm these
tuoers and the yield was fair, I might
shy, Tor l harvested $4,000 sacks from
Tins piece OF ground, and as each sack
averages 120 pounds my crop amounted
all told to 10000 bushels, or 333 bushels
per acre. The variety is largely fbe
neachblow. / grow them for seed al.
most exclusively and only vary from
thls IN furnishing the New York Cen
7ral dining car service, and that the M.
T.
ters which l have from w C. Brown.
second wee president, who pronounces
them perfect
'fLuther Burbank has also written
ME that the 'Dalmeny beauty, pota.
toes, which my brother gave him. were
perfection IN every way. These were
sent my brother from nv farm. The
ideal potato, in my Judgment, is tbc
peachblow. 1T is best after the 6rsi
or January and is, by the way. the best
keeping potato known, often keeping
until the middle of August.
Important Requisites.
'Understand that TO grow perfect po-
fatoes the most important requisite is
an open, porous. wellpTcpared soil. This
soll must be well supplied with humus.
or vegetable mold, so that it is open
ana easily accessible to ar, as the best
potatoes must have air, especially when
maturing. Excessive irrigation con
tracts and solidifies the soil, and makes
the potato soggy, unfit TO eat The
luDeTs should be allowed TO mature i'm
q soil almost dry, the top and feeder
roots providing all the moisture needed
for the tubers. The soil must be cool
i ana porous TO get the best possible re-
suit. with climatic and soil conditions
and Intelligence in seed selection, few
crops can be grown that will return
better profits for the producer.
There are places in Utah that have
ideal soil for potatoes, AS there are in
Idaho. In the latter state the Snake
River valley grows the finest skinned
potatoes found in the country, and a
yield which returns the grower 500 per
acre is not out Of the ordinary
'FBut was telling YOU about the
woman with the hoe, God bless her,
and here you have got me to talking
about my fad, potatoes. and 7 have got
to stop. or otherwise L II talk YOU to