The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-06-06

That is where our stock feeding can
help for in order to produce bounte-
Gus harvests our soil must be fertile.
The soil is deep and loamy and con-
tains no rocks that hinder the culti-
walton. The land is so level that 1.
can be easily irrigated and on some
farms in this valley water can be
made to run in one direction as cas-
lily as in another.
The last two years have been ex-
ceptionally good because we have
had sufficient water to mature the
crops. This year there will be
scarcity of water but that need not
discourage us. Instead of the far
mer planting all his farm, why not
need only what can be properly
cared for with the amount of water
he has? To make any money on Il
grain crop it is necessary to have an
average yield of thirty to forty bu-
shells to the acre. To make money
OF. beet crop it is necessary To
produce thirteen tons to the acre
when the price is between six and
seven dollars a ton. All that is pro-
duced over that amount may be
counted as gain. If il costs practi-
cally as much to cultivate an acre o.
thin beets or grain as it does to pro-
duce an acre yielding twice as much
why not conserve water, energy,
seed andtime on half your farm and
produce as much on forty acres as
you could on eighty? Then use the
time you would put on that other
forty. working for wages or caring
for stock. / know of two families
who have made a good living on fif-
teen acres of land and | know any
one in these times can make a farm
pay when he has forty or eighty
acres if he is willing to work.
We cannot expect to make our
farms pay unless we do something
besides till the soil. The trouble
with most of the farmers is that
they depend entirely upon the soil
fol their subsistence. Then if the
prices of wheat, hay. potatoes or
beets is low they have nothing to sell
that will bring them cash. If prices
are good they sell their crops in the
fall, loaf all winter and spend the
money and savings of the summer
during the winter months. They
need something that will bring in .
some money during the winter I
and there are several ways
In which it can be done. One prom I
nent farmer says, "If / depended {
upon my crops | should {
soon be in the poor farm. l make
more money during the winter c
months than l do all the rest of the l
year by feeding my hay, grain or S
ipuds to sheep, hogs or cattle and /
instead of paying freight on bulky t
arm crops | sell the fat they pro- =
luce and am well paid for my time a
spend in feeding them" He a
works, not only with his hands but v
With his brain also. We know his n
arm and he runs it on scientific Y
principles. O
During the summer months the il
attic and sheep can live very cheap +
y on the range for the mountains V
y which we are surrounded not on a
Y conserve the moisture but also C;
roduce all the timber necessary for Il
uilding purposes, excellent camp al
lg sites which cannot be excelled d
nywhere, and an abundance of for CT
ge plants on which cattle and NJ
leep thrive. Among the more COM rt
ION plants found in these noun
lins the lupine, goldenrod, bitter "
ush, tall larkspur, blue grass, OF
,stue and wheel grass are the most gt
,mmon ones which furnish food for h;
le stock. There iss plenty of room W
I the range during the summer for sc
e stock that is not fat enough to &
III in the spring. &C
Dr JOnn "A. WlutSOe says tndt tne W
ture of southern Idaho lilies in its he
liry prospects. So besides feeding dc
tile or sheep why not also have a tn
,rd of dairy cows which would only flt
cupy part of the time during the tn
inter months and would bring in be
great deal of money into the COM tn
unity. We already have a cheese az
ctory here and if enough farmers OF
vned dairy cows il would be a very 50
nple matter to have a creamery do
ID condensing factory. More BIZ
ws, more milk, more money.
In American Fork, Utah, a few dr.
ars ago. in a town of about $500 thi
habitants, there were something The