American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-11-13

soil, and on September 25 some of the
nuts were dug up and showed that
they had not many more days to grow
to be ready to be dug up and stored
away. On that date no sign of frost
was perceptible in the garden.
Mr.. Williams last year cut his Col
den Bantam sweet corn after an early
frost, intending to use it for fodder
only. After it was put in the shock
he found on later investigation that
the ears had matured after all. In
planting this corr he has learned by
experience that it will not do to grow
more than four stalks to the hill or to
have the hills less than two and a half
feet apart. In preparing the corn for
drying it should be steamed while the
kernel is in the milk, then sliced and
dried in the open air. 1t must be
dried quickly or it will sour.
Mr.. Williams for several years be-
fore coming here farmed in the irri-
gated sections of Utah, but dry farm
ing found him a novice and he knows
that he is in a way going through a
school in entering that field. He pre-
fers fall blowing for spring seeding
and plows from eight to ten inches
deep for grain. If the ground is too
dry in the fall he let's the ground go
until spring. Fall blowing he always
allows to remain rough until spring,
then harrows it just as early as pos
sible and drills in his seed. Fall plowed
ground on this ranch when narrowed
in the spring is pulverized sufficient
ly to dispense with rolling. The har-
rowing alone brings the moisture to
the surface and creates the mulch to
hold it where it will give the newly
seeded grain its support.
In spring blowing for immediate
seeding he also plows eight to ten
inches deep, then harrows the ground
well two or three times. In spring
blowing the days turned soil is al
ways narrowed before night comes, in
that tanner conserving the maximum
of moisture in the soil. Spring plow-
ing is always rolled before and after
fall blowing for spring seeding for the
reason that the moisture car be held
easier and in greater quantity by this
method. He states that close obser-
walton has taught him that this meth
cd is the best on dry farms where the
problem of weeds does not compel
spring blowing and spring seeding.
The w%orkbunch of three horses are
graded to the Percheron strain, the
owner believing this breed to be the
best for farm work and other duties
incident to a mountain ranch where
heavy loads have to be taken over
roads Astounding in steep grades.
The dairy herd consists of three
COWS, all of them a Jersey-Durham
cross. Mr.. Williams likes the Short
horn best and when the dairy feature
of this ranch comes into its own the
Shorthorns will be the breed found
there.
AT present hogs are raised for home
consumption only, but the owner of
the ranch is convinced that with prop
er arrangements swine can profitably
be raised for shipment to market. He
is frank in saying that vast amounts
of grain are yearly shattered in the
fields of the county which could be
: more profitably converted into pork
: than be allowed to go to waste on the
: ground.
) The chicken flock numbers 70, ole
and young, and supplies the home
5 with plenty of eggs, besides those stor
ed away for winter use. Some tur
} keys are also raised on this ranch.
, Mr.. Williams is a native of Pennsyl
vania and came west to Colorado wheI
IL years old. For many years after at
tanning manhood he held the position
= of foreman in smelters in Colorado
and Utah, and later engaged in farm