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per cent, more meat as compared with hull than 

 any other oats they have milled. Idaho sugar- 

 beets have a high sugar 'content, and Secretary of 

 Agriculture James Wilson, the father of sugar-beet 

 industry on this continent, has said that it would be 

 possible for Idaho to supply the United States with 

 its sugar. Idaho fruit is high in nutriment and 

 sugar content, because these elements are elabo- 

 rated by the plant in the presence of sunshine. Its 

 delicious flavor and fine texture are very marked. 

 Meat produced from rich grasses is in turn high 

 in food value. 



One of the most important factors in the estab- 

 lishment of a market for all high class agricultural 

 products is the uniform permanency of supply. 

 The conditions are under such perfect control, and 

 the Twin Falls country is of such extent, that this 

 is absolutely provided for. 



The Twin Falls country of southern Idaho is in 

 about the centre of what is commonly called the 

 Snake River lava plains. Until the recent appli- 

 cation of water to large tracts of land here it has 

 been known as the Snake River desert. It was 

 never a barren desert, however, but covered with a 

 growth of desert plants and grasses, making an 

 excellent winter stock range. 



Geologists report that southern Idaho was orig- 

 inally a rough, rocky country, the rocks being 

 granite, rhyolite quartzite, and limestone. The 

 valley of the ancient Snake River was broad and 

 several valleys opened out from it into the moun- 

 tains to the north and the south. After the river 

 had worn to a deep channel, a flow of lava or a 

 volcanic upheaval obstructed it in the western part 

 of the state, and a lake covering a large part of the 

 Snake River plains was formed. This lake was 



