The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-02-18
DOUBLE PROFITS FROM
A SINGLE FARM
How Overlook Ranch Differs From
Other Successful Farms I'm its
Methods, But Resembles Them in
its Ideals and its Success.
By Charles ]. Lisle In County Life
in America

By Charles ]. Lisle in County LII
in America
There are two main reasons 70
running a farm, dissimilar and dis
tinct yet inseparahIv related-name
ly, pleasure and profit. OF course, t,
make a profit should be a pleasure
and any legitimate pleasure can b.
called profitable. However, it is pos
sible to conceive of singl-purpos,
venture filling but one side of tn,
scales. 1t might be run, for instance
purely as a recreation or amusement
at fabulous cost; or as a philantro
pic enterprise, just as money is giver
to the heather, and bread lines tt
the poor. Indeed, there Is no Other
business on earth that can be as truly
philantropic as well run, friendly
farm. Country sausage, butter, milk
cream, eggs, chickens, fruits, vege
tables, week ends in the midst oil
such luxurious essentials where real
rest abounds, for those who are sad
strangers to these mercies; an oc.
casional load of hay for the preach.
er's horse; a leg of mutton for the
poor widow; some seed wheat for
the man whose barn was burned; the
loan of horse to him who lost his
team In runaway-the whole farm
can fairly exude charity. And on the
other hand some farms are mere
money mills, with cold-blooded bal
ance sheets to rule their output in.
stead Of human hearts.
But here l want to tell you of an
Idaho farm that seems to embody
all of the best reasons for being; a
farm that pays in money and in
pleasure; that gives off it's philan-
thropic radiance just as the ideal
farm should; place where there is
enough to sell to pay its way, enough
to eat and to spare for those on
whom fortune has not smiled; a farm
where knowledge and friendship set
their lamps to burn for all who will
but see the light.
When D. c. MacWatters came to
Idaho, in 1907, he brought with him
some money, some executive ability,
and some ideals he had been gen.
eral traffic agent for an eastern rail-
road; had an established reputation
In the business world; and the Twin
Falls North Side Land & Water COM
pany, wanting a strong man to
handle its 80,000-acre irrigation
project, its railroads, and vast pow
Or interests, found him ready to
move little farther west to take up
the work. He has won notable sue
cess in his "big business" of irriga-
lion development. But all that has
no place here, in the story of Over
brook Farm
Much of the Carey Act irrigated
ands of the west have been colonized
rom the east, where irrigation is
IN unfamiliar science. The settlers
nave come with no training along
his line of work; many with no
previous farm experience of any kind
having left the desk, the store, the
pulpit. They have needed instruc-
ion even in the rudiments of irriga-
ion farming, in stock raising, in
every branch of their new life. Idaho
las been one of the foremost states
n developing extension work meth
DDS for the benefit of such settlers.
Movable schools, special farm trains,
county dairy and agricultural agents,
lecturers on every branch
# farm work-all have been utilized
o instruct the people in the latest,
most profitable practices. Several
farms have been estab-
ished to serve as practical demon
STATIONS of how to do and how not
o do farm work for profit. Even
10, there is urgent need of more in
than the state can give, and
most of the irrigation companies
maintain their private corps of crop
Experts to assist the settlers on their
,wn lands, with most gratifying re-
ults everywhere.
Thus Mr.. MacWaters, believing in
he future of Idaho irrigation, bought
argely of farm lands under his pro-
ect, leasing part of his LOO acres
IN q long term basis to co-opera-
i've company that is farmin' "a
ores to the unit. But one 320-acre
arm, which is Overlook, he retain
ID for his own, to make it a business
uccess, and the sort of pleasure that
he fruitful farm can be in the hands
f one within whose breast burns the
'ital spark of charity.
There Is nothing but thorobred
took on Overlook farm. The found
tion flocks and herds cost consider
bly, more than the average-there
re prize winners in goodly number
mong their descendants-but they
row and produce better than scrubs.
Despite this obvious advantage. some
armers spend so much on good fe-
nale breeding stock that they then
Use inferior sires rather than pay the
rice for superior ones, thereby un-
DING all their previous good work.
fr. MacWaters has solved that prob
EN- in his neighborhood by selling
ure bred sires to his own farmers,
t the price of scrub stock elsewhere.
For instance, he has herd of
roc-Jerseys, containing a larger
ercentage of the blood Of Crimson
Wonder Again, Valley Chief, Rose
ldvance, and Proud Advance, the
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