Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1913-10-16

Perry G. Holden, the famous Iowa
agriculturist, heads the Holden alfalfa
campaign party which comes to Grange.
vile on Friday, October "a, for a three
hours stay. The party arrives at the
local depot at o'clock a. m on the
Alfalfa Special" and, according to
the schedule as announced, will depart
three hours later.
The Grangeville Commercial club has
arranged for monster meeting to be
held at the court house during the time
of Professor Holden s stay. The origi.
nal plan was to conduct an automobile
trip throughout the farming sections
tributary to the city, but the earliness
of the hour on which Holden arrives
and also the condition of the roads
renders such plan impracticable.
Therefore the committee deemed it ad-
visable to call the farmers and stock.
growers and business men together for
a monster meeting in the city when
Professor Holden and his assistants
may be given an opportunity to talk
alfalfa continuously during the three
hours of their stay. In this way the
local citizens will get the full benefit
of the advice and speeches and the
party will not waste time in travelling
from one speaking point to another.
Campaign Begun Last Month.
This alfalfa campaign opened
officially at Spokane on September 23
and until November alfalfa will be
the principal topic in every agricultural
community of the Inland Empire. Since
the campaign was inaugurated Holden
has been attracting great crowds where
ever the party has visited and to date
the plan has been great success.
The campaign of Professor Holden
will take the party to 140 railroad
points in a region nearly 200 miles
square. The campaign will extend
5000 miles over five railroad systems.
Over 80 alfalfa lectures will be given
to the farmers in town and country
within a period of 40 days from start
ing.
Personnel of Party.
Members of the Holden party, all of
whom are recognized agricultural
scientists are: Professor p. g. Holden,
w. X. Baughman, }. +. Waggoner, r.
w. Lamson, Charles W. Farr, George
Afford, J. f. Buck George f. Stayner,
G. II. Allen, Chas. M. Carroll j. H.
Haney and Harry Aagersen. At least
five experts from the Washington State
college will accompany the Holden
party. Those selected to make the trip
are President f. A. Bryan, Professor
George Severance, head of the agricul-
tural department; Ira y. Cardiff, direc-
tor of the experiment station; A. B.
Nystrom, head of the department of
dairying, and f. F. Gaines, instructor
in agronomy and assistant plant patho.
logist
Alfalfa Means Improvements.
1t is well known fact that alfalfa
greatly improves the fertility and me-
chanieal condition of the soil. There is
no crop which can be grown in the In
land Empire that will do more to inn
prove the agricultural conditions of
Washington, Idaho and Oregon, than
the growing of this crop. Numerous
experiments conducted by the colleges
prove its adaptability to the soil and
climate of the Pacific Northwest. The
yields of cured hay from many sections
are four and six tons per acre per year.
Continuous cropping of wheat from
year to year will ultimately exhaust the
soil Of it's fertility; it is necessary
therefore, that some leguminous crop
be placed in rotation with wheat.
Alfalfa will not only produce from
three to four crops of the best hay per
year, but experiments prove that it
pays for the privilege by adding to
each acre upon which it is grown ap-
$3.50 worth of nitrogen
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