The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-12-02

than any other cultivated crop which,
he can plant il his acres. No man
who makes even a half hearted
effort viii fall short of two hundred
bushels 10 the acre, which is con-
sidered a short crop even by the
tenderfoot of the middlewest who is
having his first experience With
an intelligent effort and under nor
NAL conditions the average yield of
three hundred and fifty bushels to
the acre can be and is expected. A
number of instances are on record
of five hundred bushel production
and on tracts of "a few acres this
has been eXCelled and in one in
stance the enormous total Of seven
hundred bushels has been produced
The conditions are ali in favor
of this production, condition and
character of soil abundance OF
water to be had at the critical NOM
emit, land perfectly level and easy
to cultivate and with no bhght,bugs
or pests TO disturb the crop. a
potato failure in the valley is un-
known. Instances OF the great re-
Turns made from tnis crop are many
and some may be cited in par
ticular. Alex Robinson, two years
ago was an employe of the Oregon
Short Line Railroad company, work
ing in the shops. He bought a forty
acre tract of land near IdahoFalls.
going in debt for it. His first crop
of potatoes cleared the land of this
debt. Two years ago he produced
two hundred and eighty sacks of
potatoes to the acre which he sold
at the prevailing price at the time
of fifty cents per hundred pounds,
making him one hundred and sixty
eight dollars to the acre. The land /
the year before cost him sixty-five
dollars per acre. j. c. Jacobson,
well known commission man of
Idaho Falls, last year refused more
money for his potato crop of that
year than his land cost him. One /
more instance of the many which /
could be given is that of J. c. Ney- !
man who sold his first crop of pO-
tatoes for just what the land they
were produced on cost him, thereby
clearing the land the first year with
the first crop.
Modern methods Of seeding, cul-
tivating, digging and sorting have
reduced the cost OF production very
materially within the past two years
By the use of the modern digger, a
crop has been dug, sorted, sacked,
and placed in the potato cellar at
a cost of five cents to the sack.
Hand labor which is expensive has
been practically eliminated.
Instances may be cited on farms
or ranches as they are caHed,wbere
one producer has a potato cellar Of
eighty car load capacity wide
enough to permit driving great four
and six horse wagons between the
rows of bins. loading and unloading,
Individual cellars of from twenty
five to thirty car load capacity are
frequently seen In the city of Idaho
Falls are great store houses or ware
houses in which hundreds of car
loads are stored during the season.
It is one of the sights of Idaho
Falls during the late fail and the
early winter TO see the hundreds of
cams coming in from every direc-
ion, the wagons loaded with tons
If their superior product, lining up
waiting turns to weigh on the scales
md then driving to the refrigerator j
ars which stand in long trains on i
he side tracks. c
The record breaking wagon load S
or this season was hauled to Idaho s
calls recently by Jos. A. Taylor the |
argest individual producer of pota-
oes in the state, who loaded his 5
wagon, built for the purpose, with ]
et weight of 1850 pounds. Drawn c
y six magnificent horses made a v
reat showing There is a cash a
larket every day in the year for V
his product and the highest posi- e