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Show TWIN FALLS FARMING ALFALFA AND POTATOES Twin Kails, Ida.. Auk. 21 Alfalfa stacks Increase on the Twin Falls tract at an unprecedented rate, the last three weeks having V-een warm and propitious for the harvesting of tho second crop, which hi many Instances In-stances is yielding three tons per acre. No rainfall has appeared to In any degree affect the fine quality of this bay. Indications are that a third cutting will bo secured this season of a very good quality, many of the fields now being from twelve to eighteen Inches high. The host price In stack so far reported coraos from Murtaugh on tho ea6t end of the Twin Falls truct. where 500 tons were sold lust week for $7 per ton, measured thirty days after cutting. Audy Hansen, who raised this hay, considers the prlc is as cood as has ever been se-curod se-curod heretofore for hay crops even later In the season. Sheepmen are the purchasers. Orders are being received re-ceived from many points offering between be-tween $S and $! f. o. b. for tbe baled product, but many of the owners are holding for higher figures. Farmers In this part of the state are yet deeper this week In tho garnering gar-nering of a great harvest than ever before, because the strong demand for potatoes has Gurpa?eed everybody's expectations and baste Is holng made In getting the spuds out of the ground and to tho markets, -which want them as quickly as possible. At KIroberly and Hansen, principal shipping points on the eostrn end of the tract, the price is firm at ?0 cents to $1 per hun-dred hun-dred pounds f. o b. The higher price is paid to producers who have to haul their crops the longer distances. Artesian Ar-tesian City farmers, who make a haul of twenty-five miles, are taking the better figure?. Qualities of the spuds trown on Artesian City lands are said to be superior, because of having been Irrigated with hot water from tho wells of that -vicinity. All the potatoes pota-toes grown, however, on tbe Twin Falls tract are excellent this season, because of the better culture applied to them and more knowledge gained In potato culture, which has produced a commercial quality, uniform In size and equaling the beat commercial spuds ever grown anywhere, according accord-ing to the testimony of the buyers TheRe conditions have resulted mainly main-ly through tho educational work carried car-ried on by the State Agricultural college col-lege last, winter, also through the lectures lec-tures given last spring under the auspices au-spices or the Oregon Short Line railroad, rail-road, which pent a special train over the tract in charge of Rugens Orubb of Colorado and other well known experts ex-perts in this line of agriculture. Assorted As-sorted pedirreed seed wa used with splendid effect, the main feature of Improvement having been moat noticeable notice-able In the absence of small tubers Buyers sav the growers of the tract will have averaged producing l.fton pounds to the acre, exclusive of culls not regarded In the commercial class, by the tlmo the crop Is all dug. Flier and Buhl vicinities are especially strong on a good crop this season. Without donht the aggregate shipments ship-ments from the track will reach 300 cars within the next three months, provided prices remain ns now lu the eastern, north and middle states markets. |