The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-25
146 Days and
Nothing Done
GRLlSASKED TO
HELP WITH FAIR
Two Thousand Plants
Will Be Given Away
During Fair

tWVIA buU uOndI0 bOu0tuluS llk0 III
men and the merchants and stock
men do? Here is request for heir
Editor Trego wants two girls o
two women to distribute perennial
pea plants at the fair grounds ever
afternoon from o'clock till the rae
program starts and then from tn
time the race program is finishe,
until people quit filing thru the OK
h1btt halls. It need not be the sam
persons each day or each shift.
enough persons offer their service
none need serve more than q coppl
Of hours unless they, wish to. II 70,
are willing to help without pay RIM
or write The Republican office.
Mr.. Treg0 has tried giving ava!
seeds and plants and cuttings at tn,
newspaper office and somebody al
ways starts the report that none bu
subscribers can have them or thai
only those whose subscription is pait
In advance can get them or that get
ting people into the office is only fol
the purpose Of asking them to sub.
scribe for the paper or to pay UP
arrears. OF course we cant stop
people from talking and circulating
something that is not true, but we
are going to beat them to 1t this time
by having the plants given away at
the fair grounds and by somebody
not connected with the newspaper
work, and then everybody will feel
free to anything that is being Of
Tered. #4g
II we gave the plants free to
everybody that came along. there
would be large numbers of children
and others who did not understand
the matter and would carry on,
plants Just because they were being
offered. and they might not want
them OF all when they found out
what had to be done with them. We
want to avoid wasting the plants
and we want to insure that they will
all be planted and have good care so
this method will be followed.
We will have 1000 plants packed
IN moist earth at the booth, and
each person desiring plant viii
write their name and address In the
register kept for that purpose. Then
/. the girl in charge Of the book will
hand out printed slip telling Just |
how to prepare the soil and care for |
the plant to get the best results. |
When this slip is shown to the girl |
in charge Of the plants she will fur
nish the plant, and the person ac-
cepting 1t agrees to plant and care
for 1t and to I'LL out QUESTIONABLE
next fall when we send 1t to his or
her address as given on the register.
The QUESTIONABLE to be sent out next
fall will ask a few questions like
these:
Did you plant a perennial pea in
September. 1921?
How deep did you dig and fertilize
the ground?
Did the plant bloom in 1922?
. How high did it grow? /
What did you give 1t to climb on?
Are you pleased with 1t?
- Did you raise any seed from It?
Have your neighbors asked for any
of the seed? Ia II
We will furnish the printed
questionable and the postage to carry
It both ways and will pay the girl ,
who addresses them to you and will ,
know little or nothing about who I
gets the plants. What we want is to
get them out among the people who
want to try them, and then we want q
to know whether they are satisfac-
tory and successful after "a years 4
trial. We have distributed good 7
many flower seeds that did not grow
Or the plants did not do well, and we 4
want to handle these flowers 30 They'll \
will win or we will find out why. \
Directions for Planting
The perennial pea is not a sweet :
pea. The plant grows up like alfalfa Z
Tor appearance, but it has clingers Z
Ind wants something to climb upon. a
Under ordinary conditions It grows g
our or five feet high, but with IL
special care 1t climbs much higher. tt
t has tap root like alfalfa, and the g
leight of the vine probably harmon Il
yes with the depth Of the root. The tt
'oung plant makes tap root at the 81
ate OF about two inches a week for h
while, and the root goes down tent "
o twenty-five inches the first sum- tV
ner according to how rich and mel p
ow the soil is. II it had rich. loose Ftf
oil ten feet deep and four feet
cross it would probably fill 1t in I'll
hree or four years and might make W
plant that would grow fifteen or m
wenty feet high II supplied with al
roper support. The largest one we in
ave raised was ten feet high and k,
was planted in soil that was only OF
'osened and fertilized about two bI
'et deep, but the roots went far be- til
w that, we do not know how far.
q wish that somebody with suitable 70
IL would make an experiment and BIT
port to us. II the soil Is loose and fr
'ep. dig as deep as you care to and M
| IN with rich manure, then turn tn
enty Of water into It to carry the tn