Show 1 J 1 11 V 8 1 S T t teS Jk t tOne One of the bl big Machines w ch dug the Trenches i ion on the South Tract f I Some Creditable Showings owAn s for or a New Country I I Crop P Yields li Which bl eb Will rill Compare Favorably y With rUh 1 T Those hose of Most Localities Still in the Experimental Stage In every community in the course of development meat there are arc many things to learn Ever Every man whether er merchant tradesman builder farmer stockman or otherwise experiences experiences experiences ex ex- unknown qualities which must be overcome either cither by personal contact or observation In recording the crop yields of various farmers on our new ne' lands and with the varying products we learn slowly from each other better r methods in the propagation cultivation cultivation I and harvest As a result j the yield is greatly increased and the theone theone one who studies learns and brings e his learning into practice thereby greatly benefiting himself and those dependant upon him Thus in recording recording recording re re- re- re cording the following yields we believe be be- lieve we m may y be able to benefit some brother who from lack of ot experience f or chance to observe has fallen below below below be be- low the average in crop production Alfalfa Is the foundation upon which Is built most all the tha successful successful success success- ful tul farms throughout the Valley The crop runs runs from three to C 5 j tons per acre exceptionally E good returns will crowd 7 tons In t.- t. ordinary years the price Is 6 6 7 7 and 8 in the stack at the close of ot 1916 hay sold here for 30 3 0 at this R r. r writing November 1917 hay is selling selling for tor 17 per ton baled and delivered delivered de de- de- de livered at the cars at this point For example Some time ago In talking with Frank Heise as to the beet crop he said he had learned a J. J valuable lesson in irrigating this l J I field He made the rows across a ai i forty with his Irrigating ditch at atone atone one end As the season advanced he saw the detriment of ot extending the rows to such a length The beets near the ditch from which the water was taken yielded poorly As the rows continued the beets improved ed until at the farther end of the rows from the ditch the beets went 22 tons per acre The theory of Mr Heise Is that while getting 1 clent water to beets at the lower end If of row he drowned out those at the upper end Next year he says there thereL L will be several ditches running tf across his field where this year there i t was but one and then the water can cang g be run from one end of the row to tor r t. t the other without Injury to a part of the stand His acreage will be uniform uniform uni- uni to form Im I'm and average yield greatly in- in creased An average yield of 20 tt f tons would have brot him In gross I g returns of ot per acre h p M. M G. G Lloyd who lives 2 miles west of Delta observed that on one oner one oner r r. piece of ground where he raised poi potatoes potatoes po po- po- po i and squash last year and cultivated cult cull cul- cul t l the ground his beet yield r j this year was over 22 tons per acres acre s while on an adjoining piece not so soi f i treated he harvested only 14 tons per r. r acre l' l Suck JAck Sly who is devoting his farm to the raising of alfalfa tells us that r this year he harvested from his thir- thir two ty-two ty acres cres in this crop five tons to the acs Mr Sly lives 2 21 miles I south and 1 14 miles east of at Delta I 3 f W. W A. A Carlin of the tho Sutherland district reports that he secured a yield of one fifty bushels of wheat per acre from new now ground and received ed cd for tor it 2 per bushel bringing him himS S in Jn a gross return of per acre J JIn In his farming operations he hired the work done and was at a disadvantage disadvantage vantage many times in prosecuting the work Last spring G. G W. W Norris who the idea of ot harrowing his wheat field He was told that he was ruining It by someone someone who observed observed observed ob ob- ob- ob served hl him This This' fall faIl he told us that the process was a eminently satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory and his returns were highly high high- ly pleasing but that he was unable to state just what It would figure out to the acre Mr Robert Campbell who lives livesa a a. short distance north of Woodrow states his experience in handling winter wheat wheaten in order to get the best of the weeds He has raised wheat three successive years on the farm tarm he is making and on the same ground This year he raised 42 bushels of ot winter wheat per acre on his farm He sows in August and waters at once so that the wheat and weeds both sprout and get a good start by freezing time The weeds then freeze down and are killed killed killed kill kill- ed and the next spring the wheat makes make a good growth and yield with no weeds to bother with at harvest li lime e or choke the growing shoots of wheat in spring and keep It from tram sprouting George Meinhardt who lives near Woodrow and has a well appointed farm in that locality which he has developed from the brush the past few years reports a very satisfactory harvest this year with hay as his main yield From his hay land he harvested five tons to the acre So Sometime ago go Jacob Hawley of ot Oasis made a sworn statement that for a period of three years his returns returns returns re re- re- re turns from alfalfa seed averaged him per acre It Is no Infrequent infrequent infrequent quent thing at all on a favorable year to get in seed up to per acre While 1916 was an off ort season inthis In Inthis Inthis this valley as well as in most sections of the Intermountain country nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless never never- there were many favorable reports of crop yields reached us among which we record the followIng following following follow follow- ing In beets Hy Sherer secured 16 tons to the acre and he estimates his crop I for 1917 to yield him surely 18 tons W. W R. R Walker Valker got 18 tons tons to the acre in 1916 George Meinhardt got 22 tons to the acre as his topper crop Wilford Theobald of ot Hinckley reports reports reports re re- re- re ports that his beets went from 15 to 22 tons to the acre The ground was In to old alfalfa but had no specIal special special spec spec- ial preparation and the beets were cultivated but twice during the seas seas- on Under these conditions the beets did fine and it would seem as Is advocated advocated advocated ad ad- by old beet growers that old alfalfa land plowed up will yield an 1 k kr I t r Y A flaying Scene on the I. I V. V 1 U II Farm Iann Mr and Mrs Many came here four years ago from Leadville Colo where where Mr Many was engaged in minIng min min- ing They settled on a raw farm on r the Delta Land Water VatEr Cos Co's South Southa a Tract and went in to win Their means were wore limited and 2nd they waded right in to carve a homo home out of tho the brush bruah with their own hands As All a result of ot their labors their ro- ro I I Increased tonnage of ot beets Had the ground been especially prepared cultivated cultivated cultivated cul cul- as many times as the MississIppi MississIppi Mississippi ippi Valley man cultivates his corn they would have gone probably 25 tons to the acre Ray Hardy of Hinckley received 14 tons with ordinary care caro as ordinary ordinary ordinary nary goes In regard to beet culture inthis Inthis in inthis this valley Milton 1 Moody reports reports' that he is highly pleased with his farming op- op turns this year will amount to as much probably as they brot Into the valley Mr 1 Many estimates that with tons of at the tho finest kind of or alfalfa haya hay a herd of eighteen dairy cows and a bunch of ot pigs they have on hand besides besides besides be be- sides their poultry and other produce produce produce pro pro- duce their returns will be this year Some producing for a farm four years yean from th the the brush eh eh |