American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-09-28


and hogs; it is a meat producer of the
first rank, and the big stacks of it
look line to the farmer during the long
winter months. On this ranch the al
falfa is cut and raked, then bunch /
by hand work with the forks and IL
lowed to cure in the shock. This
method preserves all the leaves and
prevents waste.
Three-Acre Garden.
From the very first day that the
Pilgrim came to the Crystal country
he was admonished by nearly every
farmer visited not to fail to see the
Butterield ranch garden. A visit to
the garden, more than three acres in
area, explained why the neigbors
praised itso highly. The tract con-
tains everything in the line of early
and late vegetables, and then a lot of
products not found in such quantity
in many gardens. The garden is To-
Gated on a slope, the owner consid-
ering it a serious error to place it in
a hollow; Blu putting it on higher
ground both late and early frosts are
avoided. AT the time this was writ
ten September 10, not a sign of frost
was visible in the garden, although
some extremely cold nights had come
along by that time in the Crystal
country. Mr.. Butterfield is the pio-
neer gard%ner in this section of the
county, putting in the first one in the
spring of 1910. 1t is a fact that 9TH
ers tried to discourage him because
they believed it impossible to raise
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5000 feet. That theory has long ago
been proved to be without fact, and
nov every rancher in the entire sec
ton has garden tracts. In the gar
den on this ranch Burbank and Rus
set potatoes, turnips, cabbage, beans
of various kinds, squash, lettuce, ra-
dishes and everything in vegetables
are raised with success. Some GU
cumbers were shown that averaged ten
and more inches in length, and one of
them ven to fourteen inches and
weighed four pounds. The berry
patch contains red ~raspberries, Him
alaya berries, four kinds of currants
and Strawberries, all of which yielded
plentifully as testified to by the array
of jars and cans filled with them for
future use. The array of these pre-
served articles from the garden to-
tails something over 200 quarts of
berries alone, not counting the other
preserved and dried articles from the
garden. Watermelons and cantalOupes
mature here regularly. One year 40
gallons of cucumbers were put up.
The corn, a white field variety, was
planted May 26 and has grown to
nearly six feet. 1t was planted near
some sweet corn; the bloom of the
two varieties intermiXes and thus both
give a fine corn for table use. The
surplus is boiled on the cob and the
kernel sliced off and dried. This year
thirty pounds were thus preserved.
Shade and Orchard Trees.
Shade trees have been set out in the
garden, along the edges. and have at
tanned a fine growth. The intention
is to build a modern farm dwelling
next year, and Mr.. Butterfield was
looking forward to that when he set
out the trees several years ago. He
never destroys the slip of a tree on
his ranch; if it sprouts in a place
where it is not wanted it is trans
planted to another place to serve a
useful purpose in later years.
The orchard contains apple, pear
prune, plum and cherry trees-the
| latter Two kinds in bearing. Rabbits