Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-02-01
HOLD
SHORT COURSE

were held last week were we'll at
tended and much interest shown.
MONDAY. The Course opened
with over fifty people on hand
which was increased to 81 by four
p. m. The first topic of Poultry
Incubation, brooding and feeding was
handled by DR.. j. d. Baker. Mrs.
Baker could not attend. DOC" hit
the high points of the above topics
and frankly answered the many
questions asked by the audience.
The Bakers have the White Wyan-
dottes and have had great success
with them both as to eggs and meat
production and at the poultry shows
where displayed.
Pruning and orchard managment"
was handled by David Jones and
greatly pleased the growers present.
Mr.. Jones has made a financial sue
cess of his orchard methods and is
a firm believer in summer pruning.
He commended that summer pruning
is the best method of controlling ex-
uberant wood growth and induces a
stronger and heavier set of fruit
buds for the following season. Mr..
Jones invited his audience to visit
his orchard during June at which
time they would be able to better
understand his methods
DRY Land Farming" proved a
live topic. Mr.. Scott Brainard gave
Government data to show that the
precipitation average for the Snake
River Valley was only 10 to 10
inches per season. Length of grow
ing season only 40 to 125 days.
The discussion Waxed warm over
the respective merits of deep and
shallow blowing. Mr.. Brainard con-
tended that our native soil had
such a thin layer of humus that it
was suicide to pillow deeply and
bury this below reach of freshly
drilled seed. Others commended that
deep blowing was necessary for a
reservoir. All agreed that spring
blowing was a gamble and If profit
able results were to be gotten the
land must be fall plowed. left In
the rough over winter, then fitted
and the seed drilled in deeply,
TUESDAY. Mr.. c. c. Royston
spoke on Breeding Profitable Hogs"
Two filters per yea, Ore gotten each
maturing or 8 as an average. The
sucking pigs get additional food
az >3-weeks of age and soon become
fond of combination Of shorts. mid
dlings, and SKINNED milk. Rolled
oats and SKINNED milk are also
good and at 4 to S months of age
crushed barley and wheat are sub
stituted Mr. Royston finds red clover
pasture better than alfalfa and has
them weighing an average Of 40
pounds at 10 weeks of age. At 10I
months they weigh about 200 pounds.
Fattening feeds are placed in a self
feeder where he lets each hog bal
ance his own ration, Wheat, corn.
and tankage are given, the tankage
costing $500 per ton. FAttening
gains cost about lie to &C per
pound up to 200 pound weight. Bar
ley at $1.60 per hundred put on a.
gain at cost of &c per pound and was
worth It,
TUESDAY. AT Q P. NJ. the
Potato" subject was taken up by
Mr.. H. Gregory who is a veteran
grower. Mr. Gregory gets 300 bushel
per acre at a labor cost Of about
$4,000 He firmly believes in Guilt
walton rather than much watering
and last year gave but one irriga-
ton tho did cultivate 9 times. Seed
was cut into large pieces each having
2 eyes. Seed pieces weighing from
! 1-2 to ounces he finde best. He
plants ID to IS inches apart In rows
with rows about 80 inches apart. Mr.
Gregory gave it as his opinion that
potato production costing much In ex-
cess of $4,000 per acre for labor and
seed could not be considered profitab
as an average proposition. Several
potato diseases were mentioned and
it is hoped taht his entire excel
lent paper may be published In a
later issue.
Hens for Profit and Pleasure" was
the 3 P. NJ topic taken up by At
to- ney l.. NJ. Lyon. The speaker has
some so or so hens which have av-
eraged better than dozen eggs per
day all during this winter weather.
He finds his Brown Leghorns hardy
and easily kept. They mature to]
the broiler stage at least 10 days
sooner than any other breed. Early
matches and protein feeds were con-
sldered as essential to success i'll
Fall and Wfntar aoo uyo,1 1uonta1