American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-07-24
VESTINC BIG
DRY FARM CROP
Good and Quality Of
Grain is Fine.
1II1 - Methods of Cultivation Have
- Tested, and Deep Early
Flowing Has Proven to
Be Best.


1nu wheat On the Dry Farm is under
Way, and until completed the farm will
- beehive of activity. Two headers
4Ee 1t work, and combined harvester
y expected every day, and will be
pressed into service at once. twill re-
quire thirty-fve horses to operate the
latter, which will be the first combine
in this section.
The sight at the Dry Farm is enough
to revive the dropping spirits of the
most despondent settler who arrived
ate, put in crop on poorly prepared
ground and will secure little for his
trouble. Based upon the crop of last
year some of the grain will yield thirty
bushels, and the average will be eigh-
teen or twenty bushels. This includes
seeding under unfavorable conditions
and grain on land that has been cropped
for three successive years.
Taking into consideration the fact
that the present has been the most
unfavorable for ten or fifteen years, so
far as precipitation is concerned, the
Yields are most assuring. June, which
usually has from one and one-half to
four inches of rainfall, this year had
but 90 of an inch, and the last half of
May and the first half of July none.
The foothills are an exception to this
statement. They had several nice rains,
but the Dry Farm secured none of
them.
Different methods of farming and
seasons of cultivation have had fair
test, and deep and early plowing have
been vindicated. The best grain is on
land that was plowed in April last year.
e Is perceptably better than that
slowed later, showing that the early
SHOWING conserved moisture sufficient
q make the crop thrive during the
ryest weather The grain on summer
md early fall plowing is better than
dat on disced stubble land. The
grain on deep plowed land is better
than that on shallow blowing. The
difference in the grain in the different
paxts of the field where these methods
were employed is marked enough to be
impreesive. and early and deep pillow.
! IN. letting half the farm lie idle each
j yoar, is to be the policy hereafter.
Snperintendent Davis says that not.
withetAnding the unfavorable season,
the yield will be better than last year.
J 9hb Is because of better cultivation II
parf, and partly as the land is cult
Sepd it takes up and retains moisture
i $50 readily. This is illustrated by 8
ap-Aere plot surrounding MIR. Davis
This plot has been plowed
Ned and rolled every year fol
IS years, the surface being loose, Sc
& percetpably gives under foot
depth of three inches the soil i;
enough to ball when pressed
] in the hand Adjoining the
where there has been little or M
Nntion no moisture at all can bt
9zs akhis plot Mr.. Davis has an orchard
Sout 100 trees growing. They
set out in April, 1908. This
only six had to be replaced
M M are making a splendid growth
NSre as thrifty as any young irriga
rchard. A thing that helps then
absence of weeds or plants, ex
u little garden truck, to use VI
S moisture. Without a particle o
nre until snowfall the trees vii
hue to thrive.
Davis states that there is abou
acres on the big farm now read,
eeding, and that seeding will b
in August, Just as soon as har
Ne is over. A Hart-Parr gasolin
be and gang plows are increasing
1rea from fifteen to twenty acre
and at least 2O00 acres will b
a this fall. Mouldboard plow
feing used exclusively, observatio
satisfied Mr.. Davis that tn
is better on land where tn
aboard plow was used than wher
Ind was disced,
addition to the wheat there ar
III hundred acres of barley that
nicely The matter of seedin
acres of spring wheat was LEI
discretion of Mr. Davis, and h
The grain to mill. His judgmen
to have been indicated. Tn
has all along advised fall seeding
and deep blowing, and the crop
Ne big farm Indicate that this ae