The Times-News from Twin Falls, Idaho • 20

SUNDAY. AUGUST 21, TIMES-NEWS, TWIN FALLS, IDAHO 1968 I Report on 11-State Tour Ma'firic Vallev Lentils Being Harvested in Paul Area Is Made by County Agent GOODING, Aug. 20 A pano-(tons of feed is processed daily at rama of agricultural impressions this plant. Costs are twice as high has recently been jotted down by i for pelleting roughage, he was told, fakm inuws snp I By Sam Rosen UmT Route 2, Hansen, Phone GArfield 3-5910 Sff Gooding county agent Edward: as it is lor concentrates, waiers Goester who has returned frcm a 'were produced at $8 per ton. 4.000-mile tour of the 11 western- At Beef city, he saw a custom slorie states.

feed lot with a capacity for fatten- Ladybugs Used to Fight Pea Aphids I Koester made the tour in com- ing 5.000 head at one time. Most oi pany with 11 other county the feeds used consisted of barley, one from each' slope state, to study straw and mollases. Cost of gain farming and ranching in the west. per pound in the summer months The tour was sponsored by the was 22 cents and varied from 20 to Dow Chemical company. 23 cents the rest of the yea.

Aver- Wherever he went, what Koester iSge gain was two and three-fourth heard and saw led him to conclude pounds. that "agriculture is in the throes Koester noted the company char-of a revolution." ges contracted farmers eight cents Change was evident every- a day plus the cost of feed, where, on desert lands in Arizona Total costs are higher for steers and on grass seed lands in Wash- than for heifers, with 59 cents per ington. The expansion of towns tl ay for the former and 54 cents and cities, he said, has put county I for the heifers. The cattle are on feed usually lor 140 to (u aays, and agents in a quandry as to how much emphasis should be placed on working with urban groups, they are sold mostly on a four per cent shrink basis. About 30 per cent of the fat cattle, said Koester, are sold on a car- particularly in the formation of 4-H clubs.

Water was short in most areas cass grade with a dressing average of the west, said Koester, and i of 60.3 per cent. 4 If manv comments he heard on the Koester said he also visted the three-week Jaunt led him to be- i famed Chandler Hereford ranch, lieve that others were staring I near Baker, Ore. and saw their hungrily at Idaho rivers and herd sires and heard reports on streams. Igainability of the offsprings. Restlessness Noted Disease, no small problem in The restlessness of agriculture, 'raising row crops, was a problem both in research and in cropping to alfalfa growers in the Imperial practices, was demonstrated in Valley, Calif.

Farmers cut tneir alfalfa six times a year, but during Nyssa, where the sugar company was producing more and one 30-to-60-day period no water more bulk and liauid sugar to is applied to the crop so it will go meet the demands of canners, and dormant and put a check on dis- A 4, i where the company was even fin-' ease. ancing growers as much as $150 an In New Mexico and Arizona he acre. At the same time the sugar saw cotton farms and irrigation i ft fJ'-. H.Av -Vf't'l company was encouraging fann systems, one of ic employs 1.700 persons for maintenance and ers to prepare their sugar beet land in the fall. electric powers repairs.

Koester said large-scale opera In Yakima county, he heard that curly top was again becoming a problem in sugar beet fields. Apparently, the bred-in resistance against the virus in many tions and mechanization are apparently the order of the day. Large combines for picking fruit or vegetable crops are seen more varieties of seed is passing away. and more, even in rice harvests. Apparently labor problems, union Restlessness was again demon strated in another area in Wash ization of farm laborers sometimes ending in the destruction of crops that lay wilting out in hot weather, have given impetus to the man C1- ufacture of these large combines.

These lentils, some shelled and some still In the small pods in the hand of William Ray, Magic Valley Bean company, Kimberly, were swathed for curing in a field owned by Loy Hansen, about seven miles north of Paul. The crop is new In Magic Valley. It requires two or three irrigations before harvesting, (Staff photo-engraving) Lentils Being Cut North of Paul; New ington where four weed districts, organized to combat heavy infestations of Canada thistle, were disbanded suddenly by farmers. Koester said he didn't understand why the farmers quit fighting noxious weeds, and believes perhaps the farmers think the weed can be eliminated quicker and with less cost. There are 100,000 ladybugs in this sack.

John Kuest, Wendell, has sold large quantities of thewfc. sects to farmers in the Gooding area who are hoping they will work fast enough to destroy pea aphldi Koester was relieved and pleased when he returned to Magic Valley to find small operations still apparent from any roadside, and wra-ter running down fields into drain ditches. He believes water will be watched more closely in Magic Val in allaita Iieius. ADout 1U.UUU Dugs per acre are lecummcmieu. xucy arc Kpreau uii me iieids by broad, casting by hand, the old method of seeding grain.

A handful at a time is tossed out in the fields in th Area Cron Is Somewhat Like Alfalfa Speaking about weeds, one of the most impressive sights he saw early morning or at sundown when the air is cool, 'i nese ladyDugs originated in California, where ton are hand-gathered in mountains and stored in refrigeration prior to shipment to Magic Valley, (staff ley when farmers here find it economically practical to expand their on the tour was the white-specked photo-engraving) clover for seed. Efforts to get seed operations and line their ditches out of red. clover in most of the presence of 2,500 goslings "weeding" an 800-acre field of mint. The goslings wouldn't eat the crop, with concrete. areas have ff.iled in the past.

required for the crop. Some field-men feel that two are plenty. If the ground is flat, lentils tend to scald, and yields go down. Yields are supposed to go anywhere from 10 to 15 sacks to the acre, on an mendable in view of the fact the company "footed" the bill. Koester intends to give several talks about his tour of the and show some of the slides took on the journey.

However, Walter Klosterman, tour, offered any promotion and sales talks about their products. He thought this was highly com He was pleased also that Dow Chemical company, nowhere on the who farms five miles north oi however. Koester assumed the goslings were later sold for the table Paul, has a stand of clover this when they were fat geese, illus year that is producing seed, tie may pave the way for other potential growers. PAUL, Aug. 20 Lentils were be- ing cut and swathed last week on many farms north of Paul on the bureau of reclamation northside project.

The crop resembles alf alia from the road but won't freeze or discolor In cold, weather. About 650 acres of this new crop, some small part of it also in other areas of Magic Valley, will soon be threshed, by combines. When the yields are weighed farmers in those areas will have an idea whethehr they want to raise it aealn next year. trating perhaps it is possible "to make a mint out of mint." Geese! i have been used against weeds in Six miles north of Paul are sev average. But anyone who has ever seen the plants and the small half-inch pods would be Justified, in wondering how the yields can ever exceed 10 sacks.

Many fields of lentils in the Pa European countries for years. I eral fields of pintos this year. Beans have been doomed in that 9 a it a IK 0)13017 area in the past on account of iUJ frost and a short growing season, Average Yield He said 946 pounds of aromatic; oil was the average yield distilled per acre of the crop. Resistance to change, said Koes-' ter, was pointed out to him in Ari This year, despite the June 21 louse were weedy, and some of the farmer-veterans were disturbed by this sight in their fields. frost, several fields of pintos are Lentils are classified as a le- looking good.

Where those farm William Ray, fieldman for Magic Kume, but are neither beans or Valley Bean company, Kimberly, zona where he saw dry land used Tf ers didn't cultivate prior to the frost the stands weren't nipped oca thinks the weeds might be held peas. They esemble split peas, but have a slight bulge outward in the center. Lentils are used for soup black. If these fields turn out good this down if lentils were seeded down with alfalfa. He hopes to get some farmers to try this combination now for grazing cattle trying to be bought up at $1,000 an acre.

No pumps were on these pasture lands, but Koester said the ranchers were refusing this tempting offer and clinging to their way of life and season, Ray may try to get a few farmers to plant broadcast pintos next year. next season. He also may try to Ray's company put out lentil get them to plant some alfalfa seed, for only 18 acres this sea son in that area. Yraw and it makes good soup. Chile is one of the world's largest producers of this crop.

But Chile has had poor crops of lentils for the past two years, and another poor crop this season. For this reason the price has been unusually high for two years. The Palouse country in Washington grows this crop on dryland, their cow-calf numbers, still showing somewhat their scorn of DOWT iUKW YOUR with the beans. Broadcast beans have been tiled in other parts of The northside pumping farmers the West before, but Ray thinks apparently are willing to try most Integration of an unusual sort any crop at least once. Their sta was witnessed at Circleville, Utah, the crops did poorly because they were over-irrigated.

In the Paul area, you can't find any signs of ble crops are spuds, grain and sometimes alfalfa. Lentils are on' root-rot. ly one of the new crops they are with yields averaging about eight Backs. This year, Palouse farmers planted, record acreages of lentils, instead of peas in scome areas. MOW IT trying in the restless effort to find some other crop to include where more than 100 dairy cows, owned by six farmers, were milked in a community grade A barn.

The cows are kept within a two-block radius, said Koester, and driven over to the barn each evening and morning and milked only by their In a sense, the restlessness of farmers in the northside pumping project is a tribute to their energy and industry. Ray Bays they in their rotation. They are supposed to have good yields. However, if the Chilean SPM AY" They also are raising radish seed, carrot seed (which used to crop is small enough, the price are "sharp as a tack" when it comes to understanding their crop may be high again this year. be raised around Twin Falls durin.

win respective owners. When the milk is weighed to determine production, another member does the Job rath-: Only two or three irrigations are World war II) and sometimes led once they begin to handle it. Many yields of 90-bushel wheat come out of the area, and also many yields of 40-sack peas. This year the pea crop was poor in that area, just as it was everywhere in Magic Valley. Some Frost Signs Seen er than the owner of the cows.

The investment is $226 per share. At Hermiston, he went though Feedville, a cooperative feed processing plant. About 140 In Valley Bean Fields Unknown to many, excepting weeks earlier this year-farmers Ofl were debating on whether or not; get'earpet-sweeper'pickup for farmers who saw signs of black curlings in their bean fields early last week, frost appeared lightly in some areas of Magic Valley the same night it snowed on the Galena summit. No damage was apparent, how to irrigate their bean fields one; more time before they cut the crop. In most cases, the farmer has to decide at what stage of maturity i his beans are, and at what week of the summer or early fall the field imii IWJ III, vtl Mm ever, on these bean fields south of the Muurtaugh-Hansen areas, and areas east to Burley and Paul.

In PLOW AT YOUR COIWMiWCE will dry out enough so he can cut the crop. Many fields of beans in Twin Falls county and some fewer fields BEAN COMBINING only a few plants were the pods showing any moisture on the out-sides, the sign of damage to the in Burley and Jerome were cut this week. It is unusal to see bean cut beans inside. As happens every year-though IOW! FALL or SPUING! ters and rakes following behind them in the dewy mornings at the same time of the season that grain fields are still being harvested, but the weather this year has been one to remember. In many fields, the beans look No Human Cases For Brucellosis 55 vi" mm good, and yields will probably be Found in Nevada Maximum Straw Breakdown Due to complete coverage which speeds bacterial action.

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