Show Ia COL OOL HOLMES HOL IES FARMER F AR IER Salt Lake Millionaire Will Harvest an nn Immense Crop fa rn Idaho This Year Col Cot Edwin I In F Holmes Jl who returned from his Idaho ranches ono one day this week reports very er stormy weather in I the north while there but at the ame same I time lions th the Ice ce Is out of the tho upper up r Snake river generally frost trost is out ot of tho the ground In iii sections and some spring plowing has hal already been hlen done dOlle While there the colonel ordered set let setI et I I out some tr eur fruit and anti shade hade varieties In addition to seine somo thousands already planted He loan hag hn ordered road grades and will build some solos miles of or ofa ora a it model highway to demonstrate the practicability of It good roads In winter ami alto the tho reducing of ot tho the east cost of ot market marketing marketing ing I farm products It may Inn not be generally known but It itIs Ii Is It u fact that Col Co Holmes Is I one of ot the largest Inthis In this country countr cultivating some Semite thousands of o 0 acres upon lIllon which he hI derives an nn annual profit t of or from trout 15 5 to IB U 8 per pel acre ere which in III good rental value talie on 00 lami worth 69 to ue 89 per imer acre This Timis land butt went beg beggin Kin gin a 11 few ef yeAra ears ago at ot no 10 to no 20 p per r acre the Increased value being made by bythe b the time permanent Improvements the tho reliability of ur the time water I lUll Ills crop estimates tot for the tho coming based bared ba elt upon time the acreage to be beut put Iut ut In nt III about bushels grain grAllI bushels potatoes and amid 2600 2500 tons of at bOys hayi ho lie He owns nn an elevator e nt at idaho Falls Fulls timul lights holds his hili grain tot for the but beat market price II This Title season he lie will trill break up lip about 00 acres more which Is nearly nearl the fame same no nil for several years yearn past and un under under der tier the time encouragement of ot the deport depart department de put ment ot of agriculture will make i tests Willi n o an to 10 different methods of ot cultivation anti and the more moro economical use u e of ot water i This regardless of ot the HIP lie fact filet that hAt he controls his hl own Irrigation system and anti andIs Is II at lit liberty to met water If it he lie choose r |