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With his peculiar conditions, plowing under the 

 cover crop has given no better results than the 

 growing of forage crops and grazing it off with 

 sheep, and he has the additional profit of $1.75 per 

 head for the sheep. 



In this northern latitude he is getting two crops 

 a year, one of potatoes, a cover crop of forage, and 

 an increased value in fattening a flock of sheep. 

 Surely this is a fine example of intensified farming, 

 that can well be imitated in many favored dis- 

 tricts of the United States. 



While I was there a little incident came up that 

 is well worth recording. A golf club wanted Mr. 

 Hannah to release twenty-four acres of his lease- 

 hold. He had nine years yet to run on his nine- 

 teen year leasehold. After assuming the lease 

 on the twenty-four acres for the nine years, and 

 paying the annual rental to the owner and an 

 additional bonus to Mr. Hannah for the release, 

 they then paid him $1,000 for the unexhausted 

 manure that he had applied on the twenty-four 

 acres after removing the crop. A very large part* 

 of this land had been tiled to three feet deep, the 

 lines of tile being fifteen feet apart. 



Another piece of work he did on a piece of heavy 

 clay land was to cart pure, clean-washed sand and 

 cover ten acres five inches deep with it. He claims 

 that in the increased production and the ease of 

 cultivation it was a paying investment on leased 

 land. This is a good illustration of the great value 

 of the easy working lands of the Twin Falls coun- 

 try in southern Idaho, because it certainly cost a 

 considerable sum of money to have this land 

 covered five inches deep with sand. Mr. Hannah 

 is continuing this work on other land. 



It was very interesting to see this scientific, 



