American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20

yield the farmer desires and the quality the mark
cts demand. This eliminates all miscellaneous
types as we'll as quality attracts wholesale mark
cts.
When the farmers of Aroostook county, Maine.
standardized their potatoes and each farmer strove
to excel his neighbor in the quality of his potatoes
they made Aroostook the greatest potato county
In all this union. When the farmers of Kansas,
some years ago, following the direction of their
most efficient secretary of agriculture, F. d. Co.
burn, made Turkey Red the one type of wheat for
their farms, they made Kansas the greatest winter
wheat state in the entire nation and gave their
millers an opportunity to produce flour which for
It's superior excellence, is wanted in ever increas-
ing quantities for the export trade.
Selecting the rotation that makes each farmer
the most returns, and community interests determ-
lining a uniform crop for each crop grown in a
given district, is what makes farming a systematic
business and brings markets, for they learn that
they can here get quantity as well as quality; en-
courages railroads to build out to serve the newly
created business and puts the district on the COM
mercial map. This is standardization of crops.
We should study our farm soil and make the
crop rotation improve, rather than impoverish our
land. Then we can never be accused of being soil
robbers and leave behind us a depleted soil.
A system OF crop rotation in Err gland has enab-
led its farms to maintain an average of thirty
bushels of wheat to the acre. This land has been
cropped for more than a thousand years. The
wheat average of this nation for the past quarter
of a century, or even for the past decade. was but
little more than half this amount. Much of our
1855 'O'S
of II has been cropped for more than $50 years.
Let the irrigation farmer Of the west take a les
son from this. work out the rotation that suits his
region, gives a good money return, and that i'm
proves, rather than impoverishes his land. He
should not be satisfied until he has worked out a
crop rotation adapted to his soil, climate and mar
ket environment and which is averaging him a
gross return of fifty dollars per acre per crop
season.
Within our irrigated districts are men who came
west to farm from counting house and the city Of
flee of this or that profession-men of intelligence
skill and energy. Their previous business exper-
fence has taught them that working Individually
for certain things will not accomplish what CO.
operation can readily bring to pass and quickly
for all. These are the men who are
leading their communities to adopt for all the
farms of a given district a definite cash crop of a
community type. Through farm organizations of
various kinds they encourage farmers to grow
these uniform type crops to the best of their abil-
ity, producing a quality as well as a quantity, by
means of which their farmers organization interest
wholesale markets, bringing to each individual
farmer of the district enlarged market demands,
at better prices for their crop grown.
We are finding in this inter-mountain region
that cooperation, correlation and continuation are
the three Cs that put us all to work for each other,
and persistently maintained, will reap the harvest
OF Peace, Plenty and Prosperity, for the farmer,
banker and business man.