Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-11-28

gard 10 improving the land OF npi4-rcSl-
dents. Resident farmers who will i'm
prove and carry on for term OF years
land near their own ranch are requested
to see us about it,
More than 5000 acres OF land now
; owned by non-residents must be improv-
ed within the next two seasons in order
to save the water rights from forfeiture
under the state law, and this means q
great deal Of work for the residents
Perhaps you noticed that The Forum
has been taking rest for few weeks
past. Politics has taken up So much
space, and digging spuds and doing other
urgent fall work has kept lis so busy that
we couldn't lind space or time for Farm
Problems.
However. he rush is about over ard
we ought O make this column very val
liable to Us all this coming season of rest.
Another cropping season has been
added to the history of the Great North
side Tract, and it has emphasized old
problems and brought new ones 70 solve
We want you, every reader OF this page
to present your problems and tell us
about your successes.
Some OF us have been disappointed by |
the crop returns. How is it with you? |
| We have reached one conclusion ON |
our ranch and that is that it does not
pay to raise many crops on our virgin
soil. We have tried it faithfully now Tor
three seasons, and the results have not
been satisfactory. We have learned
though that We can raise one crop and
that is alfalfa, and 80 from now on orr
land goes into alfalfa and clover iu-t Is
fast as we can put ii in.
On Il small garden patch ier,ilizcd with
barnyard manure our spuds yielded at
the rate OF 100 bushels per acre. bu, on
a larger acreage OF mierti.ized soil the
yield was less than half that
We are told OF MN who ploweG
under ; acres OF clover last spring. and
he has dug from that patch 2iOO sacks o.
good spuds that have brought him ovei
\
bad markets. 1t would not be- har, t,
convince him that spuds are .nol crol
to stick to, for Il similar yield last yea
would have brought him more thn
S2OOO.OO.
One OF our ncighbors tells lis that any !
man who will raise 10 acres OF spud- {
every year, sticking To it through good
and bad markets ior 10 years will CONF
ont rich. This would probably prove
true ii he will pillow under some alfalfa or
clover for his spuds every year
We have been locating several mo-, .
people on land under our land lnrrale.
ment Bureau, bringing some good tx t
perienced irrigators to the tract
We had curiosity the other day. A '
man came to us to see ii We could locate
him on piece OF real sandy land Yes,
he did. He really wants 100 acres OF
real sand lie spent several years at /
Washing on, in the now a
famous Yakima con- try, where he say, S
they have real sand by the side OF which a
our sandiest sand Is no comparison. He d
says he has driven right under the L
fences on one side oi field where the !
wind had bowed the sand away, and on :.
the other side Of the same field could p
drive over the fences on the sand that
had been piled up above them by the
wind.
That is not fish story but pretty
good sand story, isn't it? Who can beat :
it? j.
But there is method in this mans =
lie has been for years studying the
seed business and has done some seed
raising too, and he says he is convinced
hat orr sandy land is specially adapted
% raising seeds, and he wants to SOW 100 -,
icres to Alfalfa, Alsike Clover and Tim
'thy. lie believes they will all do well :,
mere, and that if one just knows now. =
.hese seed crops will be as sure every
year as any other crop, and pay better q
profits than most crops. He tells OF
friend in this state who realizes So. % to
$1,000 per acre every year from 300
acres OF seed crops. c
lie would make the seed the main u
'rop, in fact would not cut hay crop at :.
I'll, though he says one could have lot =,
II good pasturage after cutting his seed n
rops. q
a Reader wants to know what we v
hink about sowing a nurse cron with c
Italia. p
That depends. ii it is on very sandy
oil we say by all means SOW nurse
Pop OF grain with your alfalfa, and Rye 90.
) undoubtedly the best grain to hold the Il;
and down till the alfalfa gets a good J..
Dothod, and it is best to SOW it i'm the :,
all, and SOW the alfalfa right in the 70
Dung rye in the spring, and then do II,
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