The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-24
THE CUB SAYS

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Samuel Tilley came in from Cerro
Grande recently with a suit case
packed with samples of products of
his dry farm. He had wheat with
heads four inches long and we'll
filled. The grains were small but
not shriveled. He said he had 80
acres of wheat, and that about 20
acres would do to harvest He
thinks 1t will average IL bushels per
acre and some of the best of it will
make 20 bushels. He had some oats
that looked green and rank, and
some lettuce, beets and potatoes.
The potatoes were three or four
inches long and of good form, and
the beets were the size of goose
eggs. The lettuce was tender, and
Mr.. Tilley says 1t is the hot days
and cool nights that enables plants
to grow so we'll in this dry climate.
He has studied the habits of the soil
and moisture and says this feature
Of the climate, changing from hot
to cool every "a hours accomplishes
the strange trick of bringing little
moisture nearly to the top of the
ground and then turning 1t into va
por and holding it around the roots
of plants like so much perspiration
while they feed on it. Lettuce re-
mains crisp and tender for weeks
when it is so hot by day that If
shower came he would expect 1t
to be scalded by it. He thinks 1t
is an advantage to plants to have
the bright sunshine constantly by
day and not to have any disturbing
showers. He says this is his second
year at Cerro Grande (near the Big
butte), and that there is very little
mustard there yet, altho there are
tracts broken up and not being farm
er that may ':'break out with it," II
not farmed soon. He is convinced
that every real farmer who gets in
at Cerro Grande and treats the soil
right will reap good returns. While
in town he bought header and had
it shipped to Cerro Grande.
In speaking of his neighbors, Mr..
Tilley said that Milo MCGEE has 40
acres, Mr.. Edmonson 40 acres, Mr..
McCaulay 10 acres and Mr.. Dishner
about 18 acres of wheat and that he
thought all of it would yield some
sort of harvest. Mrs. Clements is
still on their place and has some
good garden and would probably be
a successful farmer if she could get
help to carry out her plans. Mr..
Tilley is an earnest advocate of deep
blowing and of working the ground
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summer fallow
A. E. Mccoy has small farm at
the edge of Blackfoot on the south
west, and has 210 cherry trees in
the orchard. Early in the picking |
season he measured what he picked
from some average trees and found
that the yield was from so to go
quarts per tree. He thought he
might have trouble selling them, but
he placed an advertisement in The
Republican and all he had to do
after that was to pick cherries, and
more cherries. Customers came
from all directions as much as 80
or 40 miles in some cases, and some
mail orders came from farther away.
Just as, fast as he could pick them
the public paid their good money
and carted them away happy. He
sold them at Is quarts, 1S pounds,
for a dollar, cleaned up about $400
above expenses and seems to have
as many satisfied custmoers as there
were people who bought of him.
w. D. Trego, former resident of
Bingham county, but now OF Alberta,
Ahok he do rryhof tho TIIh
says, and is interested in the efforts
of farmers here to improve their
methods and make more from their
acres. He mentions an effort he is
making in his grain harvest to &C
complish something in this line. He
says he has lost money every year by
not getting his grain cut soon
enough after it ripened. Last year
in the richest spots of the fields it
was so rank that it choked the bind
er, and he shipped some small en-
gines out by express to attach under
the seat to operate the binder part
and thus speed it up, in the heavy
grain, or rather, have the team
walk slower in the heavy spots so
the binder could cut and tie all that
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than usual but still had to lose about
so cents bushel on the sale of TO-
600 bushels due to the action of
frost on the grain after it was ready
to cut. After he lost that $4,000
Or so, he did some clear thinking
along the line of how many John
Deere binders that would have pur-
chased, so this year he is operating
i've binders with horses and five
drawn by tractor. He says he
links he will still lose some money
lue to frost, for it coems all too
,oon.
He must have gotten up some
scheme for pasturing his fields and
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