Show ORCHARDS AND BEETS SUPPLANT Payette Valley Farmers Have Hav Many Thousands s of Tons Still in Stacks SUGAR FACTORY PROMISED Tm Transportation II Facilities Will Result In lii Planting of ur if More Profitable Products P Payette etre I Ida F Feb lJ 23 23 old I standby of oC the Payette Valley has g seen cn its Is best lays days and the r many fields of ireen alfalfa hay are aro doomed 11 to lo give place lace to other Othel products which are in greater gloater l' l demand and alid which bring a higher price per Jer acre For years alfalfa alfalfa al- al falfa alfa hay hn has IlaS been the tho principal product pro plO duet dUel of th he fields of if this valley vally mak- mak irl int ng the valley the Iho feeding ground for I r thousands of or of oC sheep Tho The farmers depended nearly altogether on Oil th the sheep men nien to lIu buy their hay for fOl which Ih they generally received from flom rein 4 1 I Ito I to 10 7 a ton tOil Sometimes a CL hl higher hel price was ivan d. 41 But HUE the open winter aH and the fact that a lower fower number of if sheep than usual are arc being bing fed fd in the valley combine le to lo make the I situation a perplexing H one to II th the fai farmer mer It is estimated by lIy persons in touch with the lIw situation that tull fully 1000 lOJO tons lons ohis of If alfalfa on 00 bench south of Pay- Pay ettL- ettL ll are unsold while between 1000 and 1500 tons toils which have been heen sold ilI ll not nol be he fed Ced this Oils winter unless there should be a severe ell cold snap in March which is not hot expected Added to lo 1 this a n new lIew crop of or hay will soon Oon oon he ho coming coining on anti It is anything ng but hut III pleasant k nt for fora a farmer to h c compelled to i stack slack his new I hay ay by long ricks of ur old hay No Xu Demand for I Hay General Manager 1 D Dunn nn of the Payette Payette Payette Pay Pay- ette Valle Valley railroad has hils been communIcating communicating communicating with persons In different coast cities clUes in an effort to dispose of tho lie surplus stacks of oC alfalfa b by baling the hay and shipping l It H but hut finds there Is Js no demand for Cor IL Others have ha taken laken U up lip the tho question of or shipping hn hay but tho they lucy have been heen confronted with the same condition as none has hus been shi shipped The open winter is not the tho only reason rca rca- son on wt wiry wl there ther Is h so much hay buy in the Payette valley unsold this spring Last fall all when the sheep met men began buying their heir winters winter's ha hay In man many Instances th tho they ey and the lie farmers could not agree on tho the price with the result that thatCh Ch cheaper ha hay WaR wan purchased at other feeding grounds and the lie number or she fell fed In ln JI valley this y In r. r w u 1 11 diminished m From ilu l' l standpoint the tile growers of ot May hay were almost compelled to ask what might l ho o termed u II good price for the tho hay my us as In harvesting the tho crop ciol last t a t year ear the tho expense was greater than over oer before heroo At the same name time lime snoop sheep men they he could not run sheep null and feed them 7 and 8 hay There seems to bo Lo nothing to give one rea reason oll for believing that the tho ha hay situation will become better heUer In tho the future Instead undoubtedly the thc old standby of the lie Payette valley I is to tobe tobe tobe be relegated gat to the class of oC smaller crops COPS and in l the le place of thousands of or acres or Of alfalfa 1001 et fIelds s and ana ards will receive the attention of ot the farmers Last year Cal many hundreds of acres of alfalfa were plowed under and sugar beets grown grown on nn the tho ground at a greater profit than was ever realized from flom hn hay The number of or acres to tu b be planted to lo sU sugar ar beets in inthe the Uw lii vall valley C this year car will be le double and amid perhaps treble the tho number planted plant plant- ed last year ear Added Transportation The building of or the Payette Vall Valley C railroad through the heart of or the vaIle valhey valley val val- le hey ley has made it possible pj for 01 the lie farmers farm farni- ers rs to break away from from raising hay hayand nut anI and plant their fields to products more remunerative Before the they had hal transportation trans facilities they could coula not raise 0 to advantage fruit cantaloupes and sugar beets But nut now thc these e timings things will rapidly tal take e the lie place of or ha hay Ii fields ci d s. s Probably between and acres aeleM of or if land humid In Iii tho he Payette all volley valley will b be lw planted in sugar sug-nr beets ls this year oar A large lal-ge proportion of or tl this is number num nuni- hot ber of or acres will be on the tho bench south of layette Payette liaising sugar bl beets in tl this ls valley was proved roHI to J be be- vcr very Oi profitable last lust year al The rime crop haRan has haR hasan an au advantage over nn any other In that at the time lime the time seeds are ale planted time the grower knows exactly the price l lowill o l will receive for 01 t the ht bet beets cri nce Is that tIme the price is a profitable one so 80 there need bo be no hesitation on the part pall of or the tue farmer fanner Payette PaNle expects to have hac a sugar factory metOr fac me- ac- ac tOr lor tory by 11 next year ear It Is hoped h by those interested in the valley that so ttO man many beets will be bA grown Iown this thia year r that the Nam Nampa pa factory will be flooded flood flood- ed td d until It Il will almost be Impossible for Cor or It to grind the tho beets This hope Is Js entertained for the reason that Payette Pay PU- ette eUe wants a large Jarle factory when one Is built buill here Plans havo been drawn CO for a factory nearly double the lie capacity capacity capa capa- city ell of oC the lie one cue at Nampa and und the people peo pIe here herc how hope that enough beets will willbe be 10 grown in tho the valley this year to justify the tho sU sugar ar company compan in building a largo large factory f lucre here An And hero thoro L Ls Is ever every indication now that hint the amount of ur beets bells that will bo be gi gio glown own will Justify it H. |