The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-10-10

ton, all through the sheer energy of
this master man.
The beautiful lands are covered with
crops that mean the very life of our
country during this trying period. The
hundreds of acres were dotted here
and there with immense stacks of hay
and with beautiful cornfields, the like
of which have never been duplicated
in this state. One hundred and twenty
acres constitute the governors corn
crop this year. Planted about the list
of June this corn has grown more rap
idly than 12-year-old boy, until now
1t stands high above the average mans
head. And such ears, filed out to the
very tip with firm kernels of one OF the
nations most necessary products. All
of the corn is used for silage purposes.
Three immense concrete silos measur-
ing % feet inside by A feet high are
used to house the ensilage, and the
governor is planning on building still
another before the season Is over, to
care for the immense crops. Nothing
but modern machinery Is used for the
caring of the crop, even to the operat-
ing Of an immense motor to run the
silage cutter.
1t was with this motor that the gov
ernor demonstrated the fact that he
was not afraid to get out and work
with the men that he employs. They
were having trouble with the belt
when he arrived on the scene. 1t kept
continually slipping off and the men
apparently were not able to locate the
trouble, but Mr.. Gooding, or Frank"
as all the ranch hands called him,
soon spotted it; and with "Give me a
crowbar here on this side and you
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this thing back ways" they were af-
ter 1t, the governor down on his knees
in the dirt, prying on that motor. 1t
certainly was a sight to a man who
thought that governors and potential
senator's never did anything but look
sleek and well dressed. He wasn't
content with this, however, but had to
satisfy himself as to how the silo was
filling and up the side he went. When
he emerged he was dusty, silage COW
cred man, who had found what he went
after
Seeing that the governor was not
afraid to go up into the Silo l had the
courage to try the same thing; and
there / saw one of the most novel and
labor-saving devices that it has ever
been my pleasure to see. One man
and twenty head of rams, driven round
and round by two shepherd dogs, were
tramping the ensilage. This, the gov
ernor explained, made it possible to
keep the grain In better shape.
The governor has had such excep-
tional success at raising corn that we
asked him how he did it, and this is
the way: First, thoroughly irrigate
the land before planting; then after
the corn has been planted, when it
reaches a height of four inches, use a
common spiked tooth harrow and har-
row thoroughly until free from weeds.
Then let 1t grow until it has reached
tw enty inches in height and then cult
vate the ground very thoroughly Do
not water the corn until it begins to
show signs of the leaves curling at the
end of a hot day. Then water it very
thoroughly and cultivate until it is
shoulder high. Ten days after cult
walton irrigate it again and then lay
it by.
To this means the governor attri-
butes his success In raising corn, and
the writer, who has grown up very
nearly in the midst of an Iowa corn
field can truthfully say that the corn
on the governors ranch equals any
crop ever raised in Iowa under the
most favorable conditions. During a
period of "Reminiscences the governor
told of his early experience with corn
back In Michigan, and holding out his
hand showed a scar on the middle fin