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Show IDAHO DROUTH DAMAGING CROPS ! Harry Knowlden, manager of (he Knowlden Auto company, has returned from a ten days' trip through southern Idaho, introducing the Willis tractor and the Paige car to Gem State farmers farm-ers and business men. Mr Knowlden 6tales that Idaho is hard hit with drought at this time and that if it continues much longer, great, damage to crops will be done. He BayH that water supply for irrigation in the sections he visited is very low, reservoir and canal supplies having been greatly reduced. A heavy fall of! rain in that country, Mr Knowlden states, would be worth hundreds oi thousands of dollars to the Idaho farmers. The trip was made in a Paige spin j car, which showed splendid performance perform-ance over all kinds of roads, making as high as 20 miles a day over prirts of the country Mr Knowlden states that on the entire trip the car averaged aver-aged a little more than 19 miles on a gallon of gasoline. |