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ing hay on the reservation. He happened to 
be up near the Indian’s shack at noon so 
the squaw asked him in to share the noon 
meal. They were all seated around a table 
which had a big kettle of soup in the center. 
The squaw passed it to him first and said, 
‘Stir ’em up good, you maybe find puppy.” 
rocateilo is one of the largest potato ship¬ 
ping centers in the world. The other main 
crops are sugar beets and alfalfa. Of course, 
all this farming is done by irrigation. These 
irrigation ditches run alongside of the road 
and each farmer has water just so many 
hours each week. Many times we saw farm¬ 
ers all decked out in hip boots and shovels 
going out to the fields in the morning to ir¬ 
rigate. They surely do get production on that 
soil. One man at Boise told us that oats and 
barley yield 100 bushels to the acre. 
We spent one week-end in Boise which is 
one of the largest irrigated tracts in the 
world. We were a little too late to see the 
apricot or cherry-picking but we saw many 
peach, pear and apple orchards which con¬ 
tained bushels of fruit. 
Another interesting sight was the Mechan- 
afe in Boise. It is a Mechanical Cafe where 
there are no waiters. We sat at a long coun¬ 
ter and long trays run the length of this 
counter. These trays are slowly moving and 
are encased in glass. You merely lower a 
little glass window and help yourself to the 
food you wish. You can have as many serv¬ 
ings of food as you want all for 38 cents. 
We visited Arrowrock Dam. It supplies 
the water for all the irrigation in the Boise 
valley. The dam dams the water to form a 
lake for 25 miles up the river. You know the 
drinking water in some parts of Idaho is so 
bad that the natives boil it, filter it, chlori¬ 
nate it, and then drink beer. 
We spent three days in Yellowstone Park 
