The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-05-21

70 acres ready to SOW to sprin.
wheat.
John Custom has a dry farm on tn,
hills east of Goshen where he hai
been operating for two or three
years. He built a cistern on som,
low ground where he gets the drain
age from an immense snow drift tina
lodges at the brink Of the hill. Tht
cistern fills itself with pure, clear
snow water and the supply lasts hin
far into the summer. By making
the cistern large enough he can make
the supply adequate for the whole
year.
Slower McMullen has been drilling
a we'll for James Kaphammer, north.
east of Shelley, and he expected tc
get water at a depth Of $50 feet
There is a scarcity of wells all thru
the northern part of the county and
when the water is shut out of the
canals people lose much valuable
time hauling water and driving their
stock to water. The time in the field
this year is worth at least 81 per
hour for a man and team and the
loss of time on many a farm would
go a long way toward drilling a we'll
and supplying a pumping outfit. The
sickness resulting from using canal
water and the natural loss on ami
mails from not having plenty of water
at the time they need it is also SER
ious item. There is a great need
of many well drillers along the
northern part Of Bingham county.
PlOw Deep for Dry Farming
Daniel Jones, Jr., came from Juab,
Utah, and bought 80 acres northeast
of Shelley, near Jameston. He Is
quite a student of dry farming and
says that deep blowing is what to
do for the best crops. By that he
means very much deeper than most
people usually NEAR when speaking
of deep blowing. He mentioned an
unusual discovery that was made in
the southern part of Utah by a man
removing the remains from "a grave.
He observed that the dirt in the
grave, that had lain undisturbed for
20 years, was moist and mellow, and
the walls of the grave, wheRe the
soil had never been pulverized, were
hard and dry. The volume Of earth
within the grave was in fine condi-
tion for growing crops and he
thought it would produce a crop
without rain or irrigation. Reason
ing from that fact he decided that
if he could find a way to %pulverize
the ground to a distance of several
feet he would be sure to get a good
crop. Mr.. Jones purchased some
drilled holes to a depth of
about four feet, put in blasts and
up the ground, but in this way
he ~pulverizing was not so complete
y done as it would have been had
he earth been dug out and put in
again. This process was tried on a
small tract in the middle of his field
where he was dry farming. The
1rst year the crop OF this part of
he field was looking better than the
est, but in succeeding years it kept
improving and one could always at
/ glance e just where the blasting
lad been carried on. The result Of
his demonstration was that the COM
got subscribers and the deeper
hey plowed the better crops they
,ot. The theory is that so far down
Is the land is ~pulverized it. consti-
utes a reservoir for holding mois-
ure. Mr.. Jones says that deep plow-
ng coupled with narrowing makes
moisture reservoir to the depth
f the blowing and no man al ex-
'ect to dry farm successfully with
shallow reservoir and emitting the
.arrowing. He says grain can be
narrowed until it is in the boot.
t may flatten down under the har-
ow but it will rise again. Potatoes
lay be narrowed until they get quite
Ugh, but they should be narrowed
the evening when they are tough.
narrowing in the morning when
hey are cool and crisp they break
#. Mr.. Jones advises against roll
lg the ground for dry farming as
bakes more readily. Mr.. Jones
ought the DR.. Jones farm two miles
asst and half a mile north of Shell
".
Myron Higley is building a three '
Dom house on his place. He is t
80 acres that he bought of
an Jones, Jr. L
A. c. Quigley has a Case tractor !
lat draws three plows. 1t plows +
bout one acre per hour and uses v
70 gallons of coal oil, which costs \
u cents per gallon. One man h
the plow. Mr.. Quigley's q
rm consists of 240 acres including u
e pasture and meadow land. la
Floyd and Will Lords found ala
vote den on the seventh of May q
d killed the father coyote then "
bbed the den of II baby coyotes
d left the mother seeking for her r
nily because they were not. In