The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-09-16

| toeS, ury Jnen carefully ana use
brush to remove all dirt and dust
Do not wash and rub or brush ther
wet as it destroys the natural finis
J and reduces the sum total of excel
lence. Try to preserve every natura
feature. In preparing apples. wip
them with soft cloth and do no
rub in such way that the delicat
skin will be scratched in the slight
est degree, but simply develop tn
highest polish of which it is capable
The University Exhibit
The exhibit here includes eight va
rieties of millet that were sowed OF
raw sage land late in May, and har
vested early in August. The yield wa,
six to eight tons per acre. They ar,
not SO palatable as alfalfa, but arr
rich feed, and their value to the new
settler lies in the short time neces
sary to produce them.
There are seven varieties of forage
and pasture grasses, English rye
grass, Italian rye grass, meadow fes-
cue, orchard grass, red top, timothy
and bronze grass. The first three are
not very valuable for hay, but are
good for forage, have fine texture
and are very palatable. Bronze grass
grows well with little or no irrigation,
does well throughout the season both
in cool and hot weather, and yields
about four or five tons per acre.
There are six samples of clover, in
Guiding first and second crop Of al
syke, first and second crop Of COM
mon red clover and first and second
crop of mammoth red clover. The
yields range from z to 8, tons per
acre. They are good for forage plants
have great value as fertilizers on &C
count of the legumes on the roots,
and are good for orchards both as
fertilizers and to absorb the heat and
light that is reflected from the
ground If left bare, and to the detri-
ment Of the fruit.
The station is testing twelve va
rieties of vetch, but only three are on
exhibit here. Vetches are good for
a cover crop,-that is, crop that de-
velopes in the heat of summer and
lasts all fall and winter as a pro-
lection to the ground as we'll as to alb
serb the heat and light and to catch
the snow to preserve the uniform
frozen condition of the soil through
The winter and save early thaw in the
latter part of winter that may be fol-
lowed by damaging freezes.
The Importance of having green
crop to absorb the intense heat and
light of summer is not generally un-
lerstood. If the ground IL bare, the
reflection is apt to "scald" or blister
he fruit, 1t being marked by watery
appearance under the skin, and is
commonly called water core" Much
ruit is ruined from this cause, and 1t
lot only has little value while it lasts
tut it spoils early.
Vetches are good cover crops and
re good to plow under while green
o serve as fertilizers. They yield
bout ten tons to the acre, weighed
'hile green. They belong to the fam
ly of legumes,-that is, the plants
aving bulbs or knots on the roots ;
hat combine the elements drawn
rom the soil with those drawn from !
he air by the leaves or blades, and {
id nitrogen or plant food to the soil 8
art of which comes from the air. Ii
The station is testing forty Ave va {
eties of grains, and has here nine
zen varieties in the sheaf covering
ide variation In length of straw, !
roportion of grain to straw, yield of 4
'ain, and weight of grain per bushel. ,
rominent among them is the Moray =
n barley, Jones Fife winter wheat, ;
i'd three kinds Of Durham wheat US =
for making maccaroni. There are \
teen kinds of threshed grains in a
e exhibit.
The above covers only small part
the tests now in progress at the
'oding experimental station, these .
Mounting to about seventy five tests ~
t Of total Of 236.