The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-06
WHAT IT MEANS TO THE WEST
(campbells Scientific Farmer)


the world lies just west of the Miss
ouri river and around the foot hifl
OF the Rocky mountains.
This is the country that has beer
settled up in recent years by immi
grafton from the older states. The
men and women of this region arr
the very flower of American pioneers
They are here because they have
faith in this region and because they
know that somehow in some way this
region is going to be madet to sus.
tain great population of prosper.
Gus farmers.
What is the way? What are the
results?
In the first place, this is region
where farming can be done under
most favorable conditions for the
very best crops. This is statement
which at once challenges the atten-
ion Of all students. And it is true.
1t has been demonstrated many
times that excellent crops can be
grown in this dry. bracing climate.
Crops of wheat. for instance, have
been grown with from fifty to sixty
and more bushels to the acre. Some
experiments have shown the posi-
bility of sixty-five to seventy bushels
of wheat per acre of the very best
quality.
They are not accidents. They rep
resent actual work done in practical
farm work.
Then Shere are the results of corn
growing. The records are abundant
OF great yields of the finest crops
Of corn in the dry country. So also
with potatoes anad~ other crops that
require more care. The fff1esS4 oef.
and fruits have grown in |
regions where it was supposed few
years ago nothing could be grown.
How have these results been &C
complished. By following scientific
methods of cultivation and giving
due consideration to all the elements
which go to make up ideal conditions
for plant growth. BY giving to the
of the seed bed the care
that is necessary. By using the disk,
the packer, the harrow, and above
all else using them at the right time
so that deep down in the soil there
is formed the ideal conditions for
termination of the seed. When this
is done, not in any difficult way but
and understandingly, the
rest is easy Crops will be produced
where there is in the soil the right
proportion of air and water and
warmth and there is no great deficit
Of nutriment.
But the past season many failures
have been reported. There have
been many victories and in the main
the farmers have done well, but the
crops have not been what they should
have been nor what the would have
been Ii all had understood and acted
IN accordance with understanding.
The fact of success lying along
side Of failure in so many instances
IS ample proof of the value of the
light kind Of knowledge.
In the more humid sections farm
operations must always be more or
ess subject to the accidents of cli-
matte changes. If the rains fall in
100 great abundance there is no
possible way of saving the crops. If
heavy rainfall rand severe drouth al
,ernate it is well nigh impossible to
secure success. But in the dry
,outry the farmer actually has great
Dr. control over conditions. He can
make conditions to suit He has
more of sunshine to be used in crop
He can have all the moist
IRE that is necessary. His soil is
easier handled He is in the most |
position.
But it means a great deal to fol-
low scientific soil culture for the
Try country For instance
In township there ought to be
bout 10000 acres of tillable land.
At the average acreage of fourteen
'ushels to the acre and seventy cents
bushel for wheat the crops would
,e worth $4,000.
yield of thirty bushels an acre
s very conservative, under the Camp
,ell system, which would mean |
b224,000 more added to the crop
'alue of township.
Ten bushels more could be added
With almost certainty.
Now there are anywhere from four
Q sixteen townships tributary to
imost every western trading point. S
Suppose there are ten townshins "