The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-02-12
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will be believed when it becomes
known that the Allen farm of sixty
acres is cared for by Mr.. and Mrs
Allen with the help of only one man,
except in harvest time Their in
dustry will be better appreciat-
ed when it is realized that they have
had as many as coo varieties of
fruits and vegetables and 400 va
rieties of grains and grasses grow
ing and under experimentation on
their farm at one time. One of Mr..
Aliens pet hobbies is corn, and he
has had as many as 81 varieties at
a time of his grain growing under
his watchful eye.
At the National Land Show in Chi
cago, number of years ago. the Al
liens created somewhat OF sensation
land established an entirely new re-
cord with their exhibit, which was
the most varied individual one ever
shown at any fair or exposition. The
exhibit contained over thousand
different varieties of grains. grasses,
|, fruits and vegetables, all grown on
the one farm; which exhibit inch
, dentally taught the farmers of the
J East and Middle West what vast
variety of products could be success
, fully grown in irrigated southern
Idaho.
Many exhibits prepared by the Al
lens have also been shown in the
west during the past ten years. AT
: the Lewis and Clark Centennial Ex-
position an exhibit of fruit won the
lsilver medal. They also prepared the
exhibit of several hundred bundles OF
grains and grasses for the Idaho
2 state exhibit at the Alaska Yukon
Pacific Exposition, and for the Pay
ette-B Boise Water Users association
: for exhibition at the Omaha Corr
Show. The excellence OF their ex
hibits at the annual intermountaiI
! State Fairs at Boise finally resulteS
in the creation of special Gloss fo'
the Allen entries. From the yer.
/. first year that they exhibited at thi
fair. which was the first year ate
!, they arrived in Idaho, they won tn
! annual sweepstakes-the most coyet
: ed prize in the agricultural division
/ this despite the fact that the banne
agricultural counties of that regio
:, Iwere competing exhibitors agains
4 this one farm and despite the furthe
fact that the county exhibits wer
:. prepared throught he efforts OF tn
: best farmers in the respectiy
counties.
- After seeing the Allen exhibit ca
. ry of the sweepstake for nine veal
70 in succession, the directors OF the II
AZ termontane State Fair were final
compelled to create this special clai
nv for the exhibit three years ago,
~ order that entries from the variol
.w counties could be secured. This a
NV ton on the part of the fair directo
h was caused from the fact that despi
1.-THE united efforts of commerci
as clubs, Gamblers of commerce. indiyi
nt ual farmers and whole counties. Il
,st Aliens were simply unbeatable.
in. At the first Seed Show ever co
M Quoted in the intermountain count
we and in competition with the be
MS seed growers in a seed-growing sc
ire ton. Allen last winter captured &
be cream of prizes, including the graz
lat sweepstakes for the largest and be
FOR tiisplayo / farm seeds.
CHI Wizard Allen has met with succe
ain both in the breeding of new and b
las ter varieties and in a financial wa
is but it is just the same success wi
hat which any farmer can meet proyid
len he has the same patience, persey'
a lance and industry. For instans
in How many farmers can tell to
ev- Icent just how much profit they ha
ors derived from certain crop? All
nc can tell you all of this, in so far as
oru Irelates to his place. Even when
nm has had over a thousand variet
me. under experimentation. all at {
|. time, an accurate individual recs
and has been kept of each. He uses
his same exact accounting methods