The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-01
GRLSASKED TO
HELP WITH FAIR
Two Thousand Plants
Will Be Given Away
DuHing Fair

Do some of the Idaho girls want to
do something for the fair? Will they
Nolk and donate something like the
DeE and the merchants and stock
men do? Here is a request for help
d Editor Trego wants two girls OF
two women to distribute perennial
res plants at the fair grounds every
afternoon from 1 o'clock till the race
L40.sam starts and then from the
t'r-e the race program is finished
until people quit fling thru, the ex-
MiDa. halls. It need not be the, same
persons each day or each shift. II II
enough persons offer their service,
none need serve more than couple
OIL hours unless they wish to. II you
are willing to help without pay ring
or write The Republican office.
Mr.. Trego has tried giving away
seeds and plants and cuttings at the
newspaper office and somebody al
ways starts the report that none but
subscribers can have them or that
only those whose subscription Is paid
in advance can get them or that get
ting people into the office is only for
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
fered. 0tsn .s@
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
thnrc at all when they found out
what mad 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 q plant will
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 II agrees to plant and care
for 1t and to fill out QUESTIONABLE
next fall when we send it to his or
her address as given on the register.
The questionable to be sent out next '
fall will ask few questions like
these: sA ri +@&4l
Did you plant a perennial pea in
1921? Il
How deep did you dig and fertilize
the ground?
Did the plant bloom in 1922?
How high did it grow?
What did you give it to climb on?
Are you pleased with 1t?
Did you raise any seed from It?
Have your neighbors asked for any
II the seed?
We will furnish the printed
QUESTIONABLE and the postage to carry !
t both ways and will pay the girl
Who addresses them to you and will
NOW little or nothing about who
'ets the plants. What we want is to
'et them out among the people who
want to try them, and.then we want
o know whether they are satisfac- a
DRY and successful after a years /
rial. We have distributed good 9
many flower seeds that did not grow y
r the plants did not do we'll, and we Y
rant to handle these flowers so they n
I'LL win or we will find out why.
Directions for Planting q
The perennial pea Is not a sweet a
ca. The plant grows up like alfalfa b
pr appearance, but 1t has clingers 4
nd wants something to climb upon. 2,
nder ordinary conditions it grows st
,ur or five feet high, but with IL
,ecial care it climbs much higher. ra
has tap root like alfalfa, and the ys
eight Of the vine probably harmon til
% WIN IAO WI IA VI ZIG " liz .
)ung plant makes tap root at the
tie of about two inches week for
while, and the root goes down ten
twenty-five inches the first sum- q
er according to how rich and mel
W the soil is. II it had rich, loose .
ii ten feet deep and four feet :,
ross 1t would probably fill it in ,,
rec or four years and might make y,
plant that would grow fifteen or pl
'enty feet high If supplied with HI
oper support. The largest one we ia
I'VE raised was ten feet high and
was planted in soil that was only s,
osened and fortified about two ri
& deep, but the roots went far be- a,
W that, we do not knox how far. "
+" wish that somebody with suitable =,
IL would make an experiment and "
port to us. II the soil is loose and
ep, dig as deep as you care to and Of
in with rich manure, then turn en-
enty of water into it to carry the q
~'"'zer deep into the ground. Do wi
is now and after a few weeks of w
is seeping, take out the manure D,
d fill in the hole with rich moist -,
nth with sprinkling of manure a.
1t and then set the plant in Sep w
nber. If you Just want a Glecently or