| Show NOTES FROM IDAHO AND THE TWIN FALLS By on the map we find that Idaho is in the same latitude as Wisconsin and with the exception of a very few it hard to grow the best varieties of deciduous in those states have never laid claim to the fact that they are fruit-growing Yet on account of its physical has a climate more like southern Missouri and one thousand miles further than like the climate of the states The state of lying as it does on the west slope of the Rocky conditions are physically different than in the same latitude in the eastern The Great Continental Divide extends along the northern and eastern together with the smaller ranges on the extending through the center of the state from east to acting like a great protects southern Idaho from the sudden cold waves that swoop down from the It is a well known fact that nearly all of our cold waves originate up in the Alaska country and travel in a southeasterly I This would not be so if it were not for the great Rocky Mountain Another condition that has a great effect on the climate in southern Idaho is that when the waves of air set in motion by the disturbance on the other side of the mountains reach the summit of the range and begin to descend to our southern it is warmed mechanically at the rate of 1 degree for every feet of the This reaches the valleys as a warm and is often called a This wind is oftentimes not but it still remains that whenever there is a disturbance of any kind on the north and instead of having cold on inclement such as they have in other sections of the United our temperature invariably becomes 1 while cold weather may be experienced ni the north and east of the warmer weather is being had throughout the valleys of southern In narrow where the flow of air is the A mechanical heating process takes and the air reaches the lower level possessing a higher Some of the very best locations for orchards are found in the canyons and narrow gulches along the elevation of but where the country is nearly level or rolling the air is diffused over the and that portion of it that becomes colder sinks and follows down the narrow gulches and and thus the situation is and on the where the air is spread the high situations are found to Jae the Altitude and latitude have practically little to do with climatic conditions in this intermountain The physical condition or topography of the country seem to control climatic In 1861 the first orchard that we have any record of in southern Idaho was planted at Later some orchards were planted at and a few years later they began to plant orchards on the south of the Snake river from Shoshone Trees of all varieties were and at the present through the center and along the outer edges of the Twin Falls section such apples as the Rome Grime Winter York Northwest Yellow seem to take the lead as profitable varieties of the such as the Beurre Da Beurre Winter have produced heavy crops of high quality of such as the Italian and do extremely well and are very and if planted in the right seldom fail a paying In most localities sweet cherries can be grown at a great and in many places foreign grapes have been grown we do not advise the planting of foreign grapes at the present but believe that in many situations where experiments have been made that they will prove to be a very valuable Apricots and nectarines bear exceedingly while the smaller such as produce phenomenal Last year one orchard near Twin Falls gave a net return of something over per The soil on the Twin Falls tract is volcanic particles are very fine and it retains moisture exceedingly The entire country is with the depth of soil averaging six feet or There is no section in the world that is better the country being traversed by deep coulees going to bedrock at least every half-mile draining off into the Snake River six hundred feet or more below the level of the Nature has been very kind to this providing a system of drainage that cannot be duplicated by which precludes the thought or possibility of the soil ever being waterlogged or injured by an accumulation of and consequent evils following this The from a chemical is exceedingly rich in all soluble constituents so necessary for the best growth of and is exceedingly rich in so necessary for highly colored Plenty of iron in the soil and never-failing sunshine are the two factors that give such high color to the fruit grown in the Twin Falls which make's them very pleasing to the and is the prime factor in marketing The temperature in this when taken into consideration with the altitude and is really The lower portion of the Twin Falls both north and south extending from Shoshone falls down the Snake ha san average temperature of 64 degrees further back on either side it goes down to 52 then to 50 The average temperature or thermal line 50 degrees extends through the great fruit belt of southern Idaho it can readily be seen that the 1 win Falls section is extremely favor located with regard to temperature so necess produce flavor and together the gives us the fruit that is beyond comparison Alfalfa and nature's two greatest restorers fertility to the grow in with the natural and the planting of clover or al in mature and then plowing them un can always have very fertile soil and maximum crop It has often been said that no one is so far from the market as he who has nothing to and that no one is so near to market as the man who has the superior The fruits of southern Idaho are shipped throughout the entire civilized never failing to receive the highest market In we receive more for a box of apples containing less than a third of a barrel on the markets of the world than do the people of the eastern states for a berrel of apples of the same grade and |
