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Show (Continued from first page) agriculturist has shown that one pound of beet pulp is equal to one pound of ground com meal when fed to cattle or dairy cows. Beet pu!,- balances the nation, acts as a laxative and prevents the danger of overfeeding over-feeding in the winter. Think of it! Two c-f the cheapest crops fiat can he iiaised, forming one of t :e be;:t fattening feeds. Alfalfa -wo ily at six. seven or e',rht dollars a ton in the stack and pulp at the fa. 'ory at cons'derable It?; than a dollar a ton: A celler like hole in the grour-.l -filled with beet tops at harvest time ami covered with a lave.- of eoars- straw manure makes the cheapest silage possible. The difference between the cost and selling price is what makes money. Feeding c:.n be made more profitable right here thaaj .in any other country which doe.? notl produce alfalfa and beets. In talk- ing to a farmer and a good one, he said that he used to sell his hay to ' Jabe Ritchie who hauled it away and ; feed it on his own place. He com-: : menced to notice that Mr. Ritchie's farm kept growing bigger crops right along, while his didn't. He took the hint and commenced to feed his own fed it on his own place. He eommee-and eommee-and had pulp on his own farm. For ten years back lie has fed steers du--in the winter. Jn addition to building build-ing up his own land he made good money every winter with the execep-tion execep-tion of one. In one year out of ten he has hist money feeding and that was because he fed a poor bunch of stli's at too b:g a price. This same man has raised beets for twenty years 'Last spring, which was an excepfiou-ally excepfiou-ally dry oi.e, a portion of his beets failed to make what he consiaerert a good stand. He irrigated this 'land, plowed up Hie beets and planted potatoes. He harvested more thau sacks of polatocs to the acre ' i:id sold them around $2 a sack. Big enough lo bring from bin; the assertion asser-tion Unit ho could pay for any rancu in the valley with spuds at even a dollar a hundred. However, in his enthusiasm he probably overlooked a thing or two. "He possibly overlooked the fact i hat his 20 years of beet culture had put his land in the best possible condition for the fine crop of potatoes, po-tatoes, and that the market price was extremely favorable. I I don't know how il is this winter, ! but hist sprhig a year ago, you could !,o through Molilalia from south to j north and there were stacks and stacks of hay that had not been fed. In Ibis section of Idaho the surplus hay was all cleaned up. Montana grows more cattle than Idaho. Yet. a lol of her hay went begging for a local market. Why? Because Montana Mon-tana stews were shipped flown to the beet raising seel ion of Idaho where 'hey had pulp to feed with hay. The Molilalia packers did this. We are compelled lo grow alfalfa in order to keep our soil up. Beels not only form a profitable industry of itself, bul the by-product, pulp and syrup, timulate the hay industry considerably consider-ably more than is given credence. We hear more or less about "three" in one' one." This term might aply to applied to beets. The beets themselves, the feeding industry the seller of hay. "The bei t industry could be marie easily worth 2i million to the Idaho Falls section every year, one with Ihe next if exploited to what ought to be its normal condition. Thi.fi would mean an additional population' of several thousand to home, clothe and feed. "In view of this the iue;lion nat-j uiaily arises; "Why don't people rabse more be.'ts?. ".-some will say it it loo r..uch v. k; o:h'TS. they don't w ant to fuss with them. O'lins, it is loo much work in the fill hauling them off. Others, t ied them once and didn't have any luck. " nd then again there are so many (Cor crop; that can be grown so profitably pro-fitably here. Vc are not lik- the ( r in .-late of Iowa, where th hig i I I price of land m.i' e? them gri.iu to pull even and where Ihev have ,o -'' k p. i from cr, ,ress ami oiler "Mlr-i in a simi::ir romliiion wh- e C they have only oix main crop. N'. ! were not a single shot by any un aie-. We c e a fu'l 'li-d siv-gun eclinn. j 'v :h every cylinder working t very t son of put) Mar. Look a. Ill ' j : ( lain crop; I h- c Numerical p. laro jj :.i d Hie it" -i I no Ihe alfal'a s. e I ;" . 'he alfalfa se ! ; t:,. red clo.e,-; th, ! ea s ed : sav'n. r.oihing abou" w lo'at b. iiey am. als- hi ad ler.uce. celery si raw berr es, cai'den I ruck, leoiev,1 le cai.'le, m m -'i and hoc-s ;r. l izens of c i lie,- llnngs wlec'i ,r. sire everv yea- Any of iln.se may br considered short euls to ri.'l'" ..' |