Idaho Agriculture Gets a Start

Read pages 171-172 in your text. Answer the following questions on your own.

1. More than half of Idaho’s people depend on __________________ to make their living.

2. ____________________ made it possible to sell farm crops and animals in far-off markets.

3. ____________________ made it possible to farm southern Idaho’s desert land. Read page 135, and then answer the questions.

4. The first gardens and farms in Idaho were started to __________________________________.

5.Soon farming, fruit growing, and ranching brought more people to Idaho than __________________.

Read pages 136 and 137. Discuss the questions with your group. Copy your group’s answer below.

6. Why did towns spring up quickly in some places and not in others?

7. The cattle business was ideal for a number of years. Why was this?

8. Why was open range such a good thing for ranchers?

9. Cruel winters killed many thousands of cattle. Do you think they should have tried to prevent them? How could the ranchers have prevented many of these deaths?

10. Why should there be trouble between the ranchers and the homesteaders?

Idaho Public Television
&