The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-11-16

NUU0Inlhl MCW0
FROM ALL OF idaho
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED
FROM EVERY SECTION OF
THE GEM STATE
Potato growers near Caldwell ar
growing dissatisfied with the price the.
are receiving for their product and ma,
organize to obtain a price based on thu
eastern markets.
A potato weighing six and a hal
pounds is being proudly displayed BY
C. F. Chase, a potato grower of Nampa
J In one hill Mr.. Chase harvested L
potatoes which weighed one pound each
Mrs. Minnie H. Faust, Nez Perez
county school superintendent, has an
nounced that a teachers examination toi
all grades of teachers certificates vii
be held at Lewiston, November Fl, d
and %.
/ Shoshone county taxpayers will pay
$3.50, SOP in state, county, city and school
district taxes for. the current year, ac-
cording to extensions of the assessment
rolls just completed by Deputy Auditor
James H. Munson.
A meeting of the members and stock
holders of the Nez Perez County Agr1-
cultural association has been called tor
November 20 at l p. m, at 800 Main
street, Lewiston, for the purpose of hold
ing an election for directors.
H. c. Avery, county agriculturist for
Lincoln county, has been spending some
time lately in North Idaho in an effort
to supply stock feeders of that country
with alfalfa hay owned by members of
the Lincoln county farm bureau.
Lester Lewis, progressive farmer re-
siding near Meridian, realized $l41 per
acre from red clover seed taken from
IS acres of his farm. The seed yielded
seven bushels to the acre, and the price
! for the seed was IS cents pound
7. B. Richardson, who has a farm two
miles above Juliaetta, in middle Potlatch
canyon, is exhibiting three potatoes
weighing II IA pounds. The largest
weighed four pounds and Is ounces. The
potatoes are of the Improved Late Rose
variety.
Secretary O. P Henderson, of the
Northwest Live Stock show announces
that the board of directors have decided
that it will be necessary to build another
large barn to supplement the two new
barns now provided for to accommodate
the cows.
John Brockie, big sheep raiser and
rancher of Minidoka estimates that only
about. 20 per cent as many sheep will be
fed on the project as the year that has
Just passed He says the scarcity OF
good labor, high cost of feed and low
price for sheep is the cause.
Clarence Shruper. residing near Fair
field. recently threshed 5000 bushels OF
grain, and John Vodemeyer, i'll the Sane
vicinity, threshed 1000 bushels of wheat. /
In the section between Corral and Fair
field the wheat is yielding 5 to 40 BUSH /
els per acre.
The third cutting of alfalfa has been
harvested in the vicinity of Star, and |
with the late rains and the favorable I
weather the prospects for good late |
pasture for stock are excellent. The
clover seed is practically all cut and The I
indications are for bumper crop.
Flowing is the order of the day
Latall county. On almost
every farm teams of from two to eight
horses are at work i'll the fields blowing T
land to be planted to wheat next spring.
Fall wheat grown on summer fallow land +
is making excellent growth. IL
Miss Ivy NJ Wilson, leader of Buys
and girls clubs in Canyon county, re-
signed November l and has gone to
Boise where she will take up another
line of work. Under her leadership the
stubs have made phenomenal growth,
and now have a total membership of
over 800
John Vinson. residing near Rupert
says that this has been the best potato
,rop year since his residence OH that
project, which extends back over 10
years. He has just completed harvesting
lis small patch, which has yielded
lbundantly. He picked up IS potatoes
pounds.
George Cleveland of Twin Falls.
member of one of the Boys and Girls
Vocational clubs, during the summer
aised two acres of sugar beets which
ielded so tons of beets and net profit
f $485. He figures the cost of produc-
ion, including land rental, fertilizer.
lanting, cultivating and harvesting, at
IS.
A potato contest, open to all potatoes
rown in Bonneville, Bingham and Jeff
rson counties. has been started by Shep
ard & CO.. The person who delivers to