The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-01-28

night, they may have to be re-filled
and this makes lot of work.
man having large orchard mus
have help at hand that he can cal
on. Where men have large CONNER
cial orchards they arrange it thi
way. The weather bureau and tn
telephone company keep the farm
ers informed of any expected col,
wave, and the thermometer is con
suited closely. Don't depend upol
just any thermometer that is offer
ed you, but get one that has beer
tested by the government. Then Their,
Is an instrument called the theron
stat that wakes you up when tn,
temperature runs down to, say 81
degrees. You can set it to wake vol
at SO or any degree you wish, bu1
~ Is considered the danger point
When the mercury reaches "a 1t rings
an alarm, and you can get out and
light part of your pots. If the tenn
perature continues falling, light the
others and keep filling them if they
| burn low" (Here he exhibited two
kinds OF burners and explained how
to use them; one for oil and one for
coal.) Orchard heating is crop in
surance. Fully fifty per cent of the
crop OF the United States is lost each
year on account of frost, and ex-
periments already made in orchard
heating show that they can be saved
by an investment of from three to
five per cent of the value of the crop.
expended for heating in this way. 1t
takes forty or fifty pots per acre, of
this kind, and If there is wind, there
should be double row of pots at
some distance from the orchard on
the windy side. Pots cost from about
20 to As cents each California oil
can be had at about 6h cents In car
lots, the crude oil.
The value Of orchards and of all
farm lands in Grand Valley has ad-
vanced on account of the discovery of
orchard heating, and If man has an
orchard bearing, and is protecting
from frost he can borrow money more
readily on his crop than If he were
trusting to luck" n
Some questions were asked and an
swered, and the audience invited to
go into another car to examine some
for planting and cult |
waiting. The engine took water at |
the tank, and the lecture train left |
for Pocatello on their way to meet |
the next engagement at American
Fails, Rupert and Hepburn. We felt |
that the lectures were good while
they lasted, but that they were alto
gether too brief, and we remained on
the train to secure further informa-
ton for our readers while they made
the run to Pocatello. We took a
seat at one of the tables and asked
Mr.. Grubb to tell us more of the pur-
poses of sending out the lecture train
who was good enough to furnish the
train and the working force for the
benefit of the farming public, and
his was his statement.
Interview on the Run
The credit for sending out this
rain to give such information as we
IAN to the farmers of Idaho, is due
% D. E. Burley, general passenger
lgent of the Oregon Short Line. Mr..
3urley is the farmer for the Harri-
nan system, occupying pretty much
ne same position as J. j. Hill does
With the Great Northern, and w. C.
3rown to the Vanderbilt lines.
This Is an age of great economic
'foblems. The government is doing
great deal through the Department I
II Agriculture, the agricultural COL
eyes and experiment stations to dis
over and point out the most modern /
Methods, and in fact to create the S
lethods to foster production of food
upplies and thereby benefit both the a
roducers and the consumers, but ow- q
lg to the lack of funds to keep up i
lth the needs in these matters, some I
the greatest railroad systems have
lken up the work with the two-fold
lrpose offorestalling popular calam- S
les due to shortage of foods and to h
cate legitimate and beneficent bus r
less for their roads. The agricul-
lrai classes are not keeping pace in il
'oductlon, with the consumption. ! d
ID master minds foreseeing the diff N
'ultles arising from such conditions. Iii
ldeavor to quickly educate and in Il
rest farmers in those things which fl
III most effectively relieve the stu D,
ION, and at the same time be OF
URGE OF profit to those who respond W
the work of production. al
The study of economic conditions al
a national or worldwide basis is kt
great problem and a serious one. gc
d one of the greatest works we &c
We before us is to hurry the Land. la
s man out on to the manless land" tn
ere he can not only produce sus- 10;
lance for himself and others, but
0 relieve the congested condition an
the cities by reducing the numbers tn,
be supplied there. These great pa
'tains OF industry and of enter of
Sc, who further the work of great an
cation projects and colonization;
ry train that carries investors or be
neseekers or settlers from the sol
gested to the sparsely settled re- wa
MS, every invention that enables a the
n to produce a better, a more GER an
or better quality of crop, is Me
De encouraged not only as a COM Phi
'cial advantage, but it is part of tire
ressing national need-a patriotic rio
Y.
On this trip we are giving especial for
ntion to potato culture and or
I'd heating. Potatoes constitute cou
MY per cent of the food stuffs of fer