American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-10-30
CRYSTAL FARMER MAKING GOOD.

About five miles northeast of Cryst-
tai. back Of the first range of hills,
Nocola Carsella has a homestead OF
100 acres, filed on in 1912, and adJoln-
ing his ranch his cousin, Mrs. F.. M.
Dellquadri, has a homestead OF 80
acres, filed on in 1914. Mr.. Carsella
attends to the farm work Of the two
places and is bringing them into a hlgh
state of cultivation. When these
ranches we're filed on they were COW
cred with a rank growth of s%agebrush
and servis berry bushes. The latter
are-yhard to get rid of and at first
g~rlfbbing was resorted to. That method
proved too slow for Mr.. Carsella and
he went at them with a chain and a
husky team of horses and got quicker
results. The first year of farming he
seeded nine acres to oats and barley
and reaped the best yield he ever had
on the ranch, the nine acres giving
him a total of go bushels of grain.
That decided him to stay and al
though the land never since has given
as good a yield yet he has harvested
satisfactory crops right along. The
soil on these two ranches is a sandy
black loan of extraordinary fertility
and Mr.. Carsella is convinced by his
experience that he can raise more
grain of high quality on ten acres OF
this soil than can be raised on twenty
acres of inferior soil. This year he
had 20 acres in Bluestem and Sonora
wheat and tia three big stacks await
ing the thres q are good evidence that
the Weld wi 10 over the average for
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to give an estimate of the yield pei
acre, but has promised to announce
the yield through the columns Of the
Press. Five acres of oats and six
teen acres of barley were seeded this
year, and while the oats will yield as
well as ever the barley did not do as
well S in former years. In 1914 from
an acre of Sonora wheat on the rancf
of Mrs. Dellquadri the yield was 32K
bushels. This acre was seeded on
June 5, and so persistently did it ralr
that spring that the ground was no
even touched by the harrow-the drill
ling being done directly into the rough
ground, and the wheat on that field at
tanned a height of five feet. The seeC
from this acre was all saved and gave
the two ranches their start in whea
growing. From a patch of three acre
seeded on Decoration day, 1914, 81
bushels of oats we're harvested. Tit
results mentioned fully uphold Mr.
Carsella's contention that he and hi
cousin have lands of ex%traordinar,
fertility. Part of the grain each yea
on these ranches is cut for hay, blu
this will be discontinued after the al
falfa fields begin to yield their crops
The alfalfa will be seeded in tn
spring and there is no doubt whateve
in the mind Of this farmer that he viii
succeed in getting fine crops of thi
forage.
Mrs. Dellquadri attends to the gar
den part of these ranches and the acr
devoted TO this purpose raises all vege
tables needed for table use in seasO
and the surplus is preserved or drie
for use in winter. The potatoes Civ
a particularly good crop in this sand
loan, but the record yield Of the gal
den was harvested in 1913 from a II
cept package of Honeysweet peas whe
Mrs. Dellquadri put up forty quart
os peas from the patch planted frOl
the little package. These peas al
seeded every veal o and the house
hold always is we'll provided with tn
nutritious food. The foliage of II
plant is put away in the fall and fe
TO the chickens during the long viii
ter months. For wild fruit in plenf
the owners never have to step fro.
their farms, rs quarts of it having bee
put up this year.
The work bunch of horses numbe.
four head, two graded Shire broC
mares and two horses of a Perchero1
Shire cross.
The herd of cattle numbers seve
and it is the intention to build up
good dairy herd and ship butter al
cream to market.
Mr.. Carsella last winter killed c
his brood stock of hogs and readi
admits that it was a mistake to