The Idaho Republican., 1916-08-11

crops when the seasons are normal.
Mr.. Anderson thinks it costs about
$3.50 per acre to handle the wheat
crop on the dry farm. He lists the
expense as follows:
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Seedlng .-------------.---.---.---...---- .5O
Spring cultivation ......... rs
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The last item is for yield of 20
bushels per acre. He has 180 acres
Of fall sowing and 22O acres Of
spring sowing this year. The best
of it grew about 80 inches high and
had heads two and a half to three
inches long. Both the spring and
the fall wheat made this showing in
the best parts of the field, and there
was no particular evidence that the
fall sowing was better than the
spring. Mr.. Anderson plowed his
land with an engine and gang plows
and intends to plow it once more
that way and may then use horses
uu1O16 Su61hCO olC OA I1C 4ho1 hCJ
with advantages not now offered.
C. R. Pearson, who lives five miles
north of Taber, has 125 acres Of
land summerfallowed for fall SOW
ing. Mr.. Pearson was one of the
pioneer dry farmers of American
Falls and sold out there for a good
price to take up the same kind of
farming at Taber.
S. E. Peoples, who came here from
the state of Washington year ago
lives near the middle butte Ia miles
northeast of Taber and raised some
spring rain which he cut for hay.
C. Killian lives a mile north of
Taber and is preparing 100 acres of
landI for fall seeding. Mr.. Killian
came from Kansas several years ago,
and is one of the enthusiastic men
who do not consider the possibility of
making a permanent failure. He
counts steadily on ultimate success.
James Lloyd, farmer mail carrier
on one of the Blackfoot star routes,
has a 320-acre homestead in the Til
den flats about seven miles north OF
Taber Mr.. Lloyd has been suffering
from lame foot for long time and
confines his farming operations to
plowing with a sulky, operating a
mower and such other things as he
can do riding. He has very fine
piece of land where it irrigates at
the time of the breaking up of
winter. Mr.. Lloyd has been on his
place three years and is now in his
fifty-eighth year.
Joe Tilden has 800 acres in the
Tilden flats where it irrigates in the
latter part of winter, and he has
some remarkable barley. 1t is OF
the six-row variety and grew two
feet high and bore heads from two
to three inches long, we'll filed and
plump. He rolled it in the spring
by way of cultivation. In looking it
over we found it has stooled we'll,
some of the clusters that grew from
one grain making as many as 10
stalks and $50 grains.
R. E. Hughes, north of Taber,
sowed some soudan grass last spring
on ground that was dry. There
were no showers and only part OF
it grew. 1t seemed quite able to
take care of itself but as it was not
perfect stand he has been pastur-
ing it.
A. B. Mclaughlin, of Cerro Grande
has two acres of soudan grass that
was sowed on dry ground and never
had any rain since. 1t Is not per-
feet stand but it looks rank and
green in the heat of August. Soudan
grass has large stalks and large
blades, and, like the Russian thistle,
it gathers moisture from somewhere
for it is very juicy Mr.. McLaugh-
lin drilled in seven acres of peas last
spring and they grew about eight to
ten inches high and bore some. they
were of the sweet garden variety. He
planted an acre of billion-dollar grass
and it Jared somewhat like the SOU
dan grass. Spring oats did not grow
tall enough to harvest and he Is pas
turing it. A tract of ground pre-
pared like the rest for seeding but
left without any crop on it, retained
its moisture and in August was In
condition to germinate grain If drill
ed deep. Mr.. Mclaughlin wants to
get we'll drilled and he is on the
highest and driest part of the plain
yet settled upon. Delzer brothers
got water few miles east of him at
a depth of 607 feet, and Mr.. NC
TauohIin'c farm ia on higher ground,