The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-04-06
;ROW POTATOES AT
GOO AN ACRE.

crop of potatoes for the coming season in Lemhi !
ounty will pay profit Of 5000 acre in the opinion
the best Informed The element of risk does not enter
nto the business Of growing potatoes under the perfect
conditions existing in the Salmon river and lower Lemh
Farming district The correct culture including the selec
farming district The correct culture including the seec
ton of soil and the facilities for proper irrigation assure
very large crop under normal conditions OF climate The
Sunshine the most essential element is never raining
blessing and the fertility required for perfect crop isl
inherant quality of soils to greater degree than
in any other part of the known world.
The mineral composition of arid lands is the most
perfect combination that ever found Tor the produc
ton of the perfect potato The mineral elements required
for this released until the sagebrush soil IS sat
urated to the degree required TO cause decomposition OF
the mineral crystals that have held the accumulang ele
ments of fertility for thousands OF years IL w take an
other thousand years mpoverish this soil with grow
ing crops under scientific methods OF irrigation ana roa
ton No other agricultural district in the world possesses
equally perfect chemical combination Tor perpetual
crop production without artificial fertilization The only
soil elements here which readily be exhausted
can he drawn from the air by alfalfa and clover crops
brought from the waste places by the irrigation water
Tie irrig alton water which supplies the drink and food
for the crops in this district carries correct combination
of mineral salts to the demands Of the ordinary
crops and deposit balance for future crops
The consumption Of soil fertility is important up
keep charge against the production in every other farm
ing country but combination of mineral salts and
available nitrogen HIS eliminated the element OF loss that
Is TO the various crops in other parts OF the
world There is not source of irrigation water for this
district that does not carry perfect combination
Of mineral fertilizers than any factory in the world is
producing. Our soils are primarily deficient in nitro
gen, Dut the promo OF aIalIa ana Clover
well other legumes readily supplies this element
The only danger that confronts the farmer of this country
Is the waste of fertility b. the application of OF
irrigation water IL is not uncommon to more fertility
carried from field by irrigation than would be re-
quired to produce ten crops All the plant food that
available for potato crop may be put in solution by
of water Mt time. If that enriched water il
drained off the surface into pervious subso
will be impossible to raise really good crop OF potatoes
or anything else The rrgator has opportunity to per
petuae his soil fertility for thousand years. he may
ruin his field in The rational method of irr
cation that win fertility will insure perfec
potato crop The common method which wastes fertit,
and makes akai swamps viii not produce good crol
of potatoes.
Plant one eye in hill in 80 inches apart, /:
inches apart in the keep the soil moist and waste
enriched water You will raise 10000 pounds of potatoe
and weeds Eliminate the weeds before they interfere
with the crop and you will harvest crop worth 5000
acre.