American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-12-11
HENS PAY GROCERY BILL OF
PLEASANT VALLEY FARMER
An Addition, Have Supplied the Table
and Sixty Dozen Put Away for Win
ter Use.

During the first eleven months Of
this year. egg sales from the l.. X.
Adolf ranch nave brought $115, more
than enough to pay for the groceries
used. In addition, the family table
has beel well supplied and sixty .oz-
en- eggs put away for winter use.
tn. feed bill has been light, as dur
ing the winter the fowls lived largely on
unmarketable stuff, and during the
balance of the year rustled their own
Yving. AT the present time the flock
consists of $50 mixed Wyandottes and
Rhode Island Reds. During the lay
ing season the number was much less.
as the flock includes both old and
young. This flock solves the meat
problem for Mr.. Adolf's family. He
can have more than one meatless day
a week and suffer no privations. he
would just as 500 think of running a
grain ranch without a harrow as with
GU a flock of chickens.
The home ranch of 800 acres is the
' original homestead of Ludwig Adolf in
Pleasant Valley, father of L. k Adolf,
and was filed on in 1909. When Mr..
Adolf. Sr., filed on this tract the en-
tire district now known as Pleasant
Valley was a sagebrush flat and he
was one of the first men to locate
there. Later he purchased an addi-
tional quarter section of state land,
located two miles to the east, and
farmed it. Mr.. Adolf, ST., in 1916 dis
posed of his homestead to his son and
10 resides in Newberg, Oregon. He
still retains ownership of the quarter
section of former state land, leasing
it TO his son.
L. K. Adolf in 1911 filed on a $40
acre homestead three miles north or
the home ranch and proved up on 1t.
This tract he still owns and leases out.
OF the total of 480 acres in the home
ranch and the tract Of former state
land practically every tillable acre is
in cultivation. In this part of the
county nearly every ranch contains
A~de waste places of rocks, but 1t is
noticeable that the pillow is run right
up to the edge of the waste land every
where. This year 225 acres of the
home ranch we're in grain, all but 20
acres of oats being winter and spring
wheat. The quarter section two miles
10 the east is in summer fallow. The
0Mueall LIE year gave I'll
1917 bushels per acre, the Turkey Red
and Gold Coin testing 5S1A pounds per
bushel and bringing from $3.Ol TO
S3.11 per hundred pounds at Amerl-
can Falls. Mr.. Adolf is satisfied with
the yield this off year and more h a
satisfied with the prices received for
his wheat. The oat field also gave a
good yield, considering the adverse
weather during the growing season.
Turkey Red has the preference on
this ranch as a winter wheat, being
more marketable and bringing better
prices than Gold Coin. The latter is
mostly cut for hay and used for feed
for horses, chickens and hogs. 1t is
a softer variety than Turkey Red and
far more adaptable for feed. For
spring wheat Bulestem is grown.
In 1914 this ranch gave a particular
ly good yield in wheat, the Turkey Red
going 35 bushels per acre. Last year,
wkch was very adverse from the
wheat growers point of view, the
Turkey Red gave an average of q
bushels per acre. 1t all depends on
the June rains on this dry farm. II
n good rain comes early enough dur
ing that month a good average is as
sured, and if it fails to come the yield
is materially reduced.
L. K. Adolf has been at work on this
ranch ever since his father filed on it
and is thoroughly familiar with the
soil and the conditions in general. The
first blowing on the new land was four
inches deep and this has been gradual
ly increased until no wthe blowing is
10 T--A -
this ranch is about II inches deep and
a lighter soil underlies this. The
depth OF blowing for that reason has
TO be carefully gagged, as Mr.. Adolf
believes it will lot do to bring the