The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-01-02

given out by one of the authorities
here places the figures as follows
1911 1910
Wheat ........ II, 1885, 900 12,603,00
Oats ......... S,404000 1884 900
Barley .......... 3,0S4,000 2145,000
Total ......29,4 43, 900 21,S32,OO0
Estimated number of bushels in ele-
vators not included in the above fig
ures 100000. Estimated number of
bushels unaccounted for in report s.
100000. From the same source of in
formation the hay crop for 1911 is
placed at / ,473,000.
The grain crop of Idaho for the year
1911 is the largest in it's history and
is conservatively estimated by author
tiles as between 35,000,000 and 10000
900 bushels with an estimated value of
between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000.
The heavy crop was experienced in
both the irrigated portion of the south
ern part of the state and in the north
ern part where natural moisture in the
great grain country produces wonder
full crops. The estimates of the crop
are taken from the records of federal
and state officials as we'll as railroad
men who checked the crop reports.
The great and famous Palouse coun-
try located south of Bonner and north
of Washington county or in the handle
of the panhandle portion of the state
has yielded a crop of grain for the
year greater than ever before, result
ing in the pouring of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars into the Golfers of
the land owners. In this great wheat
belt the rival of the Dakotas, the
farms run. in size from 100 to 10 900
acres, every foot of which was planted
to grain in 1911. In order to harvest
the crop, combined harvesters and
threshers are used by which the grain
is cut, threshed, sacked and dropped
in the field ready to be gathered for
the market or stored in the grain
houses and held for higher prices.
One-third of this crop has been sold.
The balance is being held for more
favorable market. The entire crop
moves along the Columbia river when
placed on the market towards the sea,
being handled in Portland and shipped
by steamer.
Eastern Idaho, that tier of counties
representing Fremont, Bonneville,
Bingham, Bannock and Bear Lake,
bounded on the north by Montana and
on the south by Utah, is destined to
be the rival of the great north Idaho
Palouse country, for hundreds of thou
sands of acres of grain planted during
1911 yielded astounding crops--wheat
that ran on an average of from 35 to
SO bushels to an acre and oats from SO
to 60. Dry farming in this section
was proved a great success in the
year just closed and farmers are the
richer and decidedly more prosperous
as result. The wheat crop alone here
is conservatively estimated by those
in position to know at between a.
100000 and 100000 bushels, for
which the farmer received 70 cents
cash bushel. Safely accepting the
100000 bushels as the yield the
wheat crop alone brought this section
SO, 500 900.
Along the valley of the Snake river
on the various irrigation projects in
GLIDING the Twin Falls south and north
sides, as we'll as the big dry farming
section back towards the hills, the
yield was just as heavy and the rail-
roads were taxed to their utmost cap.
acity to handle the crops. This condi.
ton has been true of every part of the
state for the past year. The farmers
are not only prosperous but plan
ming to increase their acreage mex
year and make the yield third larg
er.
The oat crop for the year is esti
mated at close to 100000, corn a
100000 bushels, barley 100000 ant
rye 100000 bushels. Other grains ant
seed yields for the state are estimated
in round numbers as follows: Alfalfa
seed, 100000; clover seed, 5000; tim
othy seed, 10000; beans, $4,000; DIR,
peas, 1000.
Alfalfa is king in the irrigation por
ton of this state where hay and for
age raising is extensively pursued. The
Twin Falls section of the state in 1911
II, the raising of alfalfa. Between $780,
00G and 100000 tons of alfalfa were
raised there, and it represents the 1911
alfalfa crop for that section. The
greater portion of the crop was bailet
and shipped east, bringing marke
price of $3.50 ton on the car Mex
year this alfalfa land will be broker
up and planted to wheat and new Iant
will be planted to alfalfa. Practical,
no alfalfa was raised in the northern
part of the state. Many other section.
of southern Idaho raised the crop ant
the entire yield was about 1,SO0,OOt
tons for the state.
The potato crop was next in import
ance, and the total output was clos,
to 100000 carloads. For eastern Idaho
alone nearly 10000 carloads of pota
toes were shipped to the market. Thu
fine quality of these potatoes and thu
price they bring made the crop pro
f1table one. Sugar beets yielded Sc,
$4,000 to the growers. Timothy, clov
er, grasses and all vegetables and gar
den truck produced abundantly.-Cap
tai News.