Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-01-25

went inside and asked the gentle
ma If | could examine the corn. .
Well he thought. here i a corn |
sucker sure enough, and had to
shut him of by saying that the
corn had stood shipping remarkably
we'll. That corn was raised here.
but he could nj tell me by whom, or
where l could get some seed.
ION the place We moved to there
was acre tract called pasture
There was little blue grass sod to
he seen in small spots, but the most
| saw was weeds about four inches
long. Ii had been tramped 10
death by the stock because the lit
tie stable was 20 filthy that the
stock had 10 be turned out in that
lot. This tract should have been
plowed in the fall or early winter
but it was not.
In April l started to pillow, using
two horses u a common turning OF
stubble pillow. The horses weighed
l140 pounds and the plow was a
Pinch walking pillow.
L had had some experience pre-
pairing ground for corn. but this
was the most discouraging that l
ever undertook until the plants were
up and looking fine.
The ground was rather dry; no
water available, for it was not
turned into the bitches. | wanted
10 pillow about six inches deep. but
it was 80 tramped and - hard that
| could not do it. IL ran all the
way from > inches To 10 inches
Part Of the time | was walking, and
part Of the time | was riding the
handles Of the pillow. The team
was walking rather slow and very
steady but tell you | was not. /
plowed about an acre a day and
hitched onto the harrow every hall
acre | plowed.
The day | finished up my near
est neighbor came over and told me
he thought it best for Inc to SOW
oats or barley. l told him | want
ed corn, a. it was the COW feed
was after and if | could get it We
up a little bit later | would try anC
plant it any time in May.
Il had a four-horse cutaway disc
A neighbor allowed me the Use 0
his team a little. later, as only haC
two horses to put on four hors
disc, and that was not horse-powe
enough TO do a good job.
Three days after discing float
ed the ground down with a leveler
This leveler consisted of two piece
2x6x16 feet by ) feet wide, AM
I constructed in such way as to b
7 perfectly rigid.
1.-Two more days went by and
] began to look like rain, and
hitched two horses on the four hors
= disc and disced the ground the sam
5 way l plowed.
0 Il had been making enquiries a
: to where | could get seed. Here
| where the business men Of the tow
T can help out the farmer. In tn
e case he was a lumber dealer, bu
was as enthusiastic over the poss
| bility of growing corn in Idaho as
: was, and he said he knew men VII
=, could put me in touch with some
II one who had seed that was accl
e mated, and he did so.
|, "On the Goth of April wat'
n came and Saturday evening | ra
Is some burrows and was going to flo;
e this ground over Monday. Satu
day night it rained and Sunda
1t afternoon it rained heavy Shove
lie doing a better job of irrigating tina
Is | could. 1t was four days before
1t could disc this piece of ground.
E. floated it down again after discir
1T and let it lay two days.
At As the weather was nice | ha
rowed it over with a common ha
D. row, then disced it Lgain and foa
:, ed it down ready to irrigate, but
ID rained again that night.
W THE 18th of May l narrowed
I'd over and made the soil fine and Il