Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-04
INCREASED AREA
TO BE GIVEN over
TO SEED RAISING
Two Merchants of Meridian
Grow Seeds as Side Lines
and Find it Very Profit
able Industry.

Meridian, March 3.-The production
of white and red clover seed Tor the
market bids fair to become one or the
featured industries of the territory i'm
mediately tributary to this place. Dur
ing the past two years, both the adapt
ability of the land to the production
of the seeds and the profitableness OF
the industry have been abundantly
demonstrated by the farmers of this
section and as a consequence, an IN
creased area of land is being given to
the industry the present year.
Among those who have experimental
with the production of the seed sue
cessfully and who will increase their
seed crop area this year are j. l.. Wag-
goner, Harry TolIeth and w. ]. Her
ron. Both Mr.. Waggoner and Mr.. Toll
leth are merchants of this place, out
own farms near town. Mr.. Waggoner
already has 10 acres in red clover and
will sow 10 acres more to white clover
this spring. Mr.. Tolleth has 20 acres
of his farm in white clover and will
SOW an additional 10 acres this season.
Mr.. Heron has been so greatly i'm
pressed by the phenomenal seed yields
in this community the past year or
! two that he proposes to sow full 40
acre tract to white clover. These
gentlemen are inclined to the view that
the raising of clover seed is destined
to develop as one of the most highly
featured industries of the Boise valley
and that its development will be such
that it will, within a very brief period
of time, become one of the great seed
supply centers for the leading whole
r,Ia eood bonSaS of the east and mid
die west
ADAPTED TO SEED GROWING.
In az number of instances during
the past few years. farmers of the i'm
mediate surrounding country have
realized revenues from their seed crops
equivalent to the value of the land de-
voted to the crops. Among the farm
ers who have engaged in the industry
30 great profit in this territory are
Mr.. Waggoner. of this place; Clarence
Mellinger, of the Cole school commu
nity r. V. Wolf. of this place and
Frank Rosenloff whose farm is also
near here. Mr.. Waggoner regards the
Meridian country as being capacitat-
ed by nature for development into one
Of the greatest sections in the entire
United States for the production OF
clover seed and he is extremely enthu-
siastic over the success the industry
has assumed In this territory, botf
from the viewpoint of the proportions
the industry has assumed locally anc
that Of the wonderful revenues real
ICED from the crops of those who have
experimental with the industry the
past two years.
A SUPPLY CENTER.
In commenting upon the vast posi-
bilities presented this section through
the development of this industry, Mr.
Waggoner said, THE marked adapt
ability of this community to the pro
, duction of clover seed has been thor
oughly proven. Many of the farmer
in proximity to this place have realize,
great revenues from their seed crop
the past two years. and / regard tn
industry as being one which can be de
veloped to great profit to our farmers
A superior class of seeds can be grow
here as compared to what can b
grown in the east and middle wes
and because of this fact, l hold tina
this section can be made one of tn
great clover seed producing sections c
the United States and one Of the prin
cipal supply centers for the wholesal
seed houses of the country. Nor is tn
industry likely to be too generally en-
gagged in, for If it is engaged in gener
ally, the chances for it's assuming pro
portions as one of the country's grea
supply centers will only be the nor
greatly increased"