The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-07-20

terms and said he thought he had
enough to last till the first of
August.
Jacob Shot is a Russian living
northeast of Mr.. Curtis and has a
very nice tract of land which he is
blowing for winter wheat. He has
2 self-filling cisterns, built where the
snow water will run into them dur
ing the spring thaw. One is one
half mile from his house and the
other 2 miles away. He found two
difficulties about locating cisterns;
one was that his farm is under lined
with solid lava and the other is that
he could not find suitable drainage
slope where the snow water would
run into the cistern Of its own &C.
cord. Mr.. Shot has 38 acres OF
winter wheat and is summer fallow-
ing SO acres. One of his cisterns
blistered and he lost much Of the
water on this account. Mr.. Shot is
a young man and bachelor.
George H. Webb is man of many
experiences, having been born and
raised in England. He has served as
a sailor, learned civil engineering
and finally took up dry farm about
10 miles northeast of Taber. His
farm has soil several feet deep con-
sisting of a black loan turning to a
gray clay at the lower depth. On the
second of July his garden looked
good, the ground was mellow and
the moisture stood within one inch
of the surface. The conditions for
plant moisture seems to be the best
that one could wish and the ground
was so mellow the prospects for
crops were good. Mr.. Webb stated
that there was no hard-pan under
the soil and that he had unusual
advantages for holding the moisture.
James Lloyd is an elderly gentle
man who has homestead In what
is known as Tilden Flats, southwest
of the Middle Butte. Tilden Flat
is a great basin into which the snow
water flows during the spring thaw
and the soil is unusually good. Last
spring the water nearly all soaked
into the ground and not much flowed
into the basin. Mr. Lloyd has 70
acres of his land cleared and 60
acres is in grain, l in beets and he
has half an acre of beans. Mr.. Lloyd
is somewhat crippled in his feet and
has been unable to do much the past
few years.
Joseph Tilden is the original set
tier of Tilden's Flat and the man
who touched the match to vast
stretch of sage brush one hot day
in summer and cleared what is
known as Tilden Burn some 10 years
ago. This is stretch of sage coun-
try that was turned into good prairie
lands by one big bon fire, about Is
or 20 miles was cleared. Mr.. Til
den experimental with winter wheat
in the big basin and found that
every time there was a good spring
thaw and a. good flow of water into
the basin it killed his wheat, so he
is raising nothing but spring grain.
He has $50 acres in spring wheat
where he drilled only 20 pounds OF
seed to the acre. He says the thick
er one drills their grain, above 20
pounds the less crop he will have,
because the many plants exhaust the
supply of moisture in the soil by
the time it gets ready to boot. Half
as many plants grow longer and
flourish. He finds it is possible to-
raise a light crop of wheat by drill
ling 20 pounds to the acre just as
early as possible.
Mr.. Hamilton has a dry farm be-
tween Tilden Flat and the Delzer
we'll. He has cabin on the place,
blowing done and a
small tract in crops.
Delzer brothers live about 1 miles
northwest of Taber, on the state
road, and have 200 acres of winter
wheat, 80 acres of which is volun-
teer, and they have about 8 acres OF
spring wheat. They have thresher
outfit of the Minneapolis Blower
make and an Advance tractor. They
to do some blowing with the
tractor this summer but had trouble
getting coal for it and their work has
been delayed.
William Akers lives on the high
lands 3 or 4 miles west of Tilden
Flat. He has 20 acres cleared and
Is doing some blowing. He reports
having raised some very nice pota-
toes last year.
E. S. Frasure was discing some
and from which the sage brush had
Deen burned years ago. He thought
it would hold the moisture so he
could plow it at his leisure in July
md August. He has quarter of
IN acre of beets, one of alfalfa which
vas looking good, small bed of
soudan grass and some sweet clover.
All of these crops were planted last
spring. The alfalfa was planted
earlier than the sweet clover and the
'oots were from 4 to 10 inches long
With the moisture within inches of
he surface. The sweet clover roots
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