The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-10
The Asylum Farm

The asylum farm has this year
been using a swifter method for
stacking hay than before. They
have dispensed with the Jackson
fork and are using two ropes in
stead. On the end of the derrick
rope where they formerly used the
Jackson fork they now use a trip
capable of hooking into four rings
that are at the ends of two ropes.
When the hay wagon goes into the
field, and is ready to receive hay,
two ropes are laid lengthwise Of the
wagon about four or five feet apart.
The ends of the rope hang near the
end of the hay rack, and in each end
of each rope is a ring. The hay is
thrown on the wagon until it has
about half load and then two more
ropes are placed in position. When
the load arrives at the stack, the
rings are drawn up and snapped into
the trip on the end of the derrick
rope, and the mass is lifted and
swung into position over the stack
and dropped.
DR.. Hoover reports that it is very
much faster than the old way and
very much safer. The Jackson fork
is always menace with it's sharp
tines swinging about over the mems
heads, and it drops much of the hay
back in rising. 1t tears peces out
of the hayrack and sometimes the
fork is broken when it hooks into
solid parts of the rack. He reports
that they put up rick about 165
feet long, twenty-five feet wide and
twenty-five feet high in three days,
using five teams and seventeen men.
They had to haul good deal of it a
quarter of a mile or more and most
of the men were patients who were
incapable of doing mans work or
of planning to good effect. They
work in a haphazard way and get
the teams punched up SO that one
has to wait for another and thus
keep men and teams idle at times
DR.. Hoover expresses the hope that
farmers will make comparisons OF
results with similar outfits and see II
!, lASaere is not decided advantage in
y ing the ropes, both as to time and
pense and condition of the hay. He
inks it preserves the hay in its
Atural condition and loses fewer
aves to use the ropes.
The hay NOW at the asylum barn
bids about ESQ tons of hay and 1t Is
arranged in such way that it is pu1
into the managers with very little
hand work.
People who have sandy tracts
which they have trouble in getting
seeded. are invited to consider SOW
ing it to rye in July or August, sc
that it will come up and make some
fall growth. Then in the spring
there will be protection from the
winds and the sand does not DRIFT
Alfalfa and other grasses can be
sowed in the rye and the rye acts as
a nurse crop. 1t will afford a cutting
of hay early in June and then grows
up again and makes light crop Of
grain while yet affording protection
for the grass. DR.. Hoover has beer
successful in such an experiment
commenced last summer, on one Of
the worst tracts they have, where
various efforts to crop it had failed
The Thomas Community
George Stander has forty acres Of
land Just north of school house NO
12. and has sixteen acres OF pota
toes, two and half of beets, thir
teen of grain and twenty of hay. He
has bought twenty acres OF Mr
Clark, on what was known as the
ALT Parsons place, at 5000 an acre
He has raspberries, rhubarb, melons
and other garden truck, and a trac
of bantam corn. He reports havint
set his melon seeds in blocks of sot
that he kept under shelter, and ther
set them out when warm weather