The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-04-11
GRUBB DISCUSSES
CROP ROTATION
Noted AgriCulturiSt Praises Spud
and Sugar Beet
SAYS THAT THEY ARE GREATEST
CROPS FOR ROTATION.
Reiterates Declaration in Regard to
Persian Walnut and to Its Great
Possibilities.

Il have just received a letter from
w. S. Clifford, known widely as Sun
shine Clifford. from California, in
which he says that the recent story
published in THE TIMES on the mar
velous developments of the Persian
walnuts grown on the |. b. Perrine
ranch is the best advertising litera-
ture ever written in regard to Twin
Falls" said Eugene II. Grub, agricul-
turist for the Southern Pacific Rail
road company, from whom the data
for the story was obtained.
"Mr Clifford, as you know con-
tinued Mr. Grub, was the agricul-
tural manager for the vast Kuhn in
terests in this country, and when those
interests finally went into the hands
of a receiver, his knowledge of their
business and of the ambitions of the
country in Which their investments
lay was so thorough that he was re-
tanned by the receiver That he testi-
fies to the Importance of the Persian
walnuts is an indication of the posi-
bilities involved in their growth"
Mr.. Grub, who was in the country
last week for the purpose Of buying
900 head of stock and making arrange
ments for the care of his real estate
interests, turned from the subject OF
walnuts to the discussion of agricul-
tural conditions of ordinary agricul-
tural land, and urged the production
of more sugar beets and potatoes as
rotation crops. He said:
Recently | was at a dinner in Den
yer with Lord Ogilvy, a leading au-
thOrity on agriculture, who has charge
of that department on the Denver
Post: Professor Kurt Grunwald, con
sulting agriculturist and vice-presi-
dent of the International Irrigation
congress, and Professor MendelssOhn
the famous German expert and soil
bacteriOlogist, who is the most highly
salaried consulting agriculturist in
the world, and we all agreed that the
most profitable and at the same time
most educational soil crops for rota-
ton are potatoes and sugar beets
They are educational because of the
fact that they are hoed crops and draw
more particular attention to the bes
methods of irrigation, and that the.
are especially beneficial in opening VI
the soil. Now, the country in south
ern Idaho is peculiarly fortunate il
not having any of the meteorological
diseases or fungi which destroy the
potato elsewhere developed, and will
the knowledge now available it is pos
sible to keep the country free from
such pests forever. Those at the din
ner agreed that these enemies of tn
pototo were rapidly destroying tn
usefulness of southern California 70
that purpose, but in that country the
rotate potatoes and barley, which
virtually no rotation at all The suga
beet, by reason of the tap roots, whic
extend in all directions, and both c
the crops named add much organi
matter to the soil. The crops ar
valuable, and will grow more so a
time goes on, while their byproduct
are useful for the production of por
and sheep and beef and all kinds
live stock"
Asked in regard to the crops whic
should be used for rotating with pr
tatoes and sugar beets, Mr.. Grub sa
that the subject was vast one. {
a visit to the leading potato expert
Germany, he saw a map marked OF
showing the system of rotation to
followed for periods of 10 years. Tn
showed the system that prevailed
that empire in regard to agricultur
matters and the painstaking care wi
which experts worked to secure Il