Show HOP CULTURE FOR IDAHO P r P P shelby the pioneer in it ita A great future probable editor tribune some years ago age mr 11 P shelby then at the head of the union pacific in salt lake city but for several years since with mith a great northern Nor Mern with headquarters at seattle joined with others fliers in developing deat idaho lands land ills first enterprise was in constructing a canal at idaho falls which has done much for that to a alty but ili his best work in his own in interest terest and that of the country has been near camwell caldwell anil and nampa shelby sebree lannan goodhue and Th thomas onias all of salt lake at that time and mr biesel kli sel of ogden joining in an enter o to build a 0 canal and secure lands for themselves selected Cald culdwell weil as tic the at start artIng lne point for a cinal to take avat water P r fromn from balse river and convey it to ind bench lands northward the canal proved to bo be an excellent one these goL hollamen lamen have each a tanch ranch under ill the canal and a d all ol of these ran cheti have become became veritable verl table oases through judicious cultivation the writer ter had the pleasure a row days a aeo 0 ot f an hour with mr sheby on a a train while he was iwas en ell route to hla him ranch to look it I 1 over between trains his ralli oad business requiring his services at hit his home in seattle so ho he could not tarry long lon II 11 hr Is the same busy genial man mail that lie was in fit salt lake and just tle the calne except hia big hair ims has litten barn touched by time and gently v filtered ered SHELBY RANCH speaking ot or ills ha rinch ranch he told pleasant things of 0 it ills IHs fields of alfalfa and grages of at grains and potatoes uro are exceedingly cee productive while Ms his hogs thrive on alfalfa alt alfa and the grain usta to 10 fatten fallen thorn them he did experts to ship from the ranch some flomo fifty car carloads lads of products tills this year but tile most billip interest cat ing forture mentioned iby him blat was vas his success in raisins raising hops when Ms hils elster elsker and his son aon went to live on those thee lands it was A sorry place to locate since the binti oi war R ar ono vast pray gray s idt brumb ii iraln liln wilh rul not it 1 really grekon thing or it anc ve in s ch k ing in protection protect lon from che jhc noat neat of n tn biln un a few hop her vines mor re edl to olei what tile the hube h ube these er g rw w I 1 yd nd suh fine alp ay as to at il got act mr Shel shelbye bys attention and he be b br e ban n investigating ho culture this re ri suited in tile the planting of df ten act acids of land to haps last year being the first to lo ber bear ile he harvested harv esteil sevin and one halt half tons of hop bom or a yield of 1500 pounds per acre this year lie expects to got et double that amount from the ten acres res ile he his has besides ibes ldes this fifteen sol ocies CS more mora now bearing the mat fust crop which looks its it if the product will be nearly one ton per nere acre after mr had noticed the superior quality of hops haps lansed on an ills his in lind nd he visited the hop firms farms odthe of the yak in i coal country washington noted tor for its hop product HOP CULTURE this started some of the yakima hop looking after the merits ot of ida idaho ho tor for this industry and soon taci they y selected lands eight engles southeast of payette not more than a dozen or fifteen miles from mr shelbye Shet Shel bys place the writer has just visited sited their hop farm tho company co mpa n Y is 3 known as the golding hop company they are now mow putting under driler cultivation acres to hops and besides beides s this own 1000 acres more land all ail under the payette canal the land lies quite level Is a rich tonal loam with enough send to majc anake it mellow I 1 ow ahr thirty I 1 y three acres Is now covered with vines tins full of h bopa of this being the hrat first apar par to bobear abear ten acres more was planted this season and will produce next year th the ground Is well cultivated with a cul cultivator dial n after which a shovel plow opens two d itches ditches between each cdx h of rows the plants are set bet jut jit seven reven feet apart each way avay two wo roots room in a hill g sis 8 hills to t tta aj sra the arro arre ar re once well yc set h hp r room are e good bond fir many barz T ahr fari the e roots foots are permitted to throw I 1 a out aln oh 1 as numerous us as jhc wll and pruning I I 1 begin nii with th tim conat of aps in 19 of about eq aws n support BUTTMI tor the th V a aal what 13 are ft zt fir w known or calar M net i F twelve foot j e benj which M vines twin ps consists or tim lija V ors 1 part tire fed a w par elle other being fiat K 1 1 JV ver ko X 0 a 1 HOMP hemp or cotton tw talva ai to Is anti inti up twine warr Is tarm sio 10 a to fa where it 1 h bijj ld 1 1 IMM 1 choi 1 I aaa ahm thune 0 ner down to I 1 th nl lalu cle hlll hill two strini alpine i f tor v ap lat ili 1 l amin would acm ill thy ici s lre tia cro wilne I ing the space filter h so 1 I ibert fit to ro 1 proven b file e I 1 butth hut th lik li K tile I 1 at a point up u six arcs 1 ore art UK U of bood ad aln to 01 acht a men each be trained TOOL a I 1 up the 5 i alnea whre may start 5 sad a trell trellas ls cyst m ahta wh baw ta 4 out presents presenta a more il 1 but it ho has the iho ad to ad I 1 wind ahm wit als f strain artra n are underwo nd 1 p ll allon and 1 herme I 1 ju am it la ea to to no vin than to mn if S cl alcin ca ill up vol n then the h cr ellla ills caeg ell to cc tae ibe ome ell popular r I 1 11 at pro arcs nt it t them vano loaded I led down with it hopa n a irl ono one inch to three a ml ad X ff long the he are S kt v goldin ga y je aw the kaldma I 1 a k aunly ana tins ina kwui q i 1 7 ly matlag ling in n the bombi jo troyt v T ko tui oni an fk lt iL ti 4 if 1 field of her hopa wi ch channel armed with w ith it anil tb that this 1 0 to o become 1 ow ond 1 of 0 these aa air J J carmichael I 1 tat it oil un haa 1 I m nad had much hops aps ops in in kent kerr district T W to the I 1 I 1 rima R ima auntry cwb I 1 sayf th ch t a 0 1 new ew ati york only about ali aw pound lo 10 tiit it ft prom sea three times that th then on in th in arld arid ain t pr aty of water niter to tr Irrl gia lb ih i suits are but in quality white while I a ver faatu re te the art tint TO DOI 1 13 alethe ble iho plants P ta n a and there then in n r rust in celiana ell I 1 common and will ivill entirely j I 1 crop in a lew few hours DRYING A three win kiln house la is abial usa in drying and holing hoyi this crop of thirty ahr KI arn quire the labor of eighteen or twenty day al L for or that many men IB children since they akil ahi ex the iceie e cam camp it out md and earn eara sai during the seasor etc children make the aasem t I 1 re the yi cent per pound ot of atel erscil law in drying shrink to io one every four our pounds breen bli the cost of picking 4 cents vs dry and the estimated teston ine inc hopr hopa and disposing ol at e irrigated country la is place p il at per pound Vs As to the production the promise ivy I 1 calculate ursulta rosult of the put the P past L n nineteen i years t i price was wa s 19 1 9 cents nta per couri p 0 1 4 counting the y yi ar 31 in ba up to 1 I 1 per pound in planting plant ln they calculi lt i roots to 10 the acre at a dat H 1001 1000 the golding in betit between den and I 1 fir next spring clops are dried ill led in kite or r rooms on a noor floor made madlof of sh or one lulf the braca open copen oooo ti p hot ajr air to lo THUS pass through terr is 13 spread burlaps to held lio nl iba lh b prevent failing th r g h ITTA in tram from one side a and and on IN f vide fide are dropped to uio abe coski room wow th t ing nhoun nho houge uc is i a large room eat m to admit only idich ouan llla Is dared and the top of ill una in cupola cupol 1 swo s U UW draught like a to t OB the lav nto moisture sture from the copl wl drying process sulp sulphur hurls iamba bi lower room to bleach the tha chasn akad in preserving them THIS NEW INDUS rET it Is attracting much Inte interest Is cau calaty Y and it la is to the time when item many imp hop barnis here naturally the hit ton of a Import cant item in the bill bins golding company with ill tearing bearing borsand hops and 10 acres acra apte il aprin fp rin has employed two tso will son to cultivate the taw viner i W plough the ertons AM uw km weeds ten men lor for two strini and prune pruna the lines js are paid 10 30 per month an n ia I 1 this would make forbe for lle year of forty tour faur months labor i Is the superintendent ano vis aw I 1 other man inan in consta constam M taw the picking 11 19 all contrail ewt I 1 lusts lasta only three or r four le seaport seaon in hop F 1 secured from ahe ili and often from w I 1 a distance away wll welt doati d with alop r lake city may ay be fj drawn I 1 pickers who would III not m 0 W 11 able employment ut would joy the novelty i ca inking 1 our A the S raaon aso when on t Is with w ith bright P nw if aill I 1 nigh tit payette ida aug 20 ill |