The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-22

great plains east of the Rockies, ant
the other is a thin-air type dwell
ing in the higher valleys and on the
table lands of the intermountair
country, and according to his wife
is living on mountain scenery. He
is the one we want to rescue by re-
claiming the coyote.
But first l must tell you about the
big blow" east of the Rockies, and
how it drove the tribe of plainsmen
to diversified farming. For years he
mad read an agricultural paper
called Campbelks Dry Farmer, and
1t told him to disc and drag and har-
row his fields till the soil was pulver-
lied into a perfect seedbed coated
with dust mulch. He bought fifty
seven varieties of new tangled farm
implements to do it with, and gradu-
ally centered all his energies to rails
ing wheat la dust mulch. Then
came the big blow-three years of
very windy weather that blew away
the two inches Of dust mulch and
dropped it over in other states or in
somebody's meadow or sandhills The
farmer and his boys disced and drag
ged and pulyerized to make another
dust mulch, and then the weather
clerk speeded up the transmission
and moved that over into wet terri
tory
The trouble started in 1911, and
In two years they got wind of it in
the department Of agriculture at
Washington. All that year the ex-
perts came and went and meditated.
After laying off one winter while the
engineers made blueprints of the
blow, they remembered how they had |
stopped the on-rush Of the boil wee
vii by diversified farming, and they
the same treatment
(by maiD and won. BY the end of
1913 the wind had become normal
again, and corn, COW peas, sunfow-
ers, sweet clover and other truck
that would split the force of wind
and fill the inside of silo or dairy
low, were fiourishing on the sub
'trate where wheat and dust mulch
lad been overdone, and substantial
larry bushes has built up. All rows
md ridges were laid out at right
'ngles with the prevailing winds, the /
ground was kept as cloddy as posi- |
lie, and the drifting of soil slowed !
Town like your six-cylinder does on
|. slippery grade. A change of tactics ,
and the weather cerk) had saved 1
he day. ,
The Higher Altitude Fellow
The intermountain dry farmer has 8
cen sowing wheat and having the 8
Dung crop harvested by squirrels
nd jack rabbits. These have been '
somewhat like the boil '
'eevil, and mountain states have d
cen experimenting to see whether 1t e
as better to keen on poisoning the c
luirrels and killing the rabbits by r
leans of poison and popular d
drives" in the winter, or to repeal 81
70 bounty on predatory animals and "
70 coyote in particular, so they "
ould flourish and eat up the SOUR il
lis and rabbits. The department of Al
sriculture and the farm bureaus b
I'VE bought up the product of the
rychnine factories in doubtful Of al
rts to poison the rodents and save m
9 dry farmer. The cattlemen and tie
9 sheepmen, former enemies, have al
mbined in their efforts to save VI
from the encroachment In
the dry farmers on the range on bi
9 hand and the inroads of the coy eli
ss on the other. While the dry
rmer is fencing and blowing
ound the springs and watering
ices, he is only introducing weeds Sc
d raising the dickens. He covers Sc
losses partly by selling water ga