The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-12-06

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been built that 1t would be hard Il
move either of them now. and besides
he has notions of building both o
them anew on a new location some
day SO puts up with 1t all. WheI
he cleans out the stable, he piles ths
manure outside of the door and the
chickens scratch it about so that Il
covers the barnyard. One season fol
lows another, and this accumulates
gets wet, steams, dries, hardens
tramps down, forms the basis of his
feed yard for cows and calves in win.
ter and a fly hatchery in summer
He does not farm carefully, and az
the soil is rich he places no value or
fertilizers, and expects to move the
stable some time to- get new clean
start. z
He gets to raising some grain, and
when he needs granery, he builds
one where he hopes to have his new
barn when he builds it, or builds an
addition to his house and uses one
room for a granary. 1t makes a con-
venient place to hang saddles and sad
die blankets, and he gets in the habit
of mixing the functions Of house and
barn. He has been accustomed to
feed grain to horses by means of the
nose bag, and rather than make feed
boxes for each horse, he fills the
nose bags at the house and Jugs them
to the stable, and thinkers around
while the horses eat, or makes trip
back to the stable to take off the
nose bags at the time he thinks they
will have eaten their oats. Each trip
to the stable requires a walk of
an eigth of mile, and nobody pays
him cent for the walking, neither
does he reap anything for it. These
several trips are made each day
throughout the year, and this same
principles of fruitless labor is one Of
the reasons why he never gets enough
ahead to lay out his new premises
and buildings so he can have things
more convenient and make his work
effective.
He does not raise any trees nor
any kind of fruit, and only a few
vegetables except potatoes, though
he could surround himself with lux
uries If he would only plow, pulver-
ize and plant. Dogs and rye grass
flourish in the yard, and the appetite
for fruits and tender vegetables Is
partly satisfied by buying canned
goods at the store at ruinous prices.
The empty cans are thrown out where
there should be green lawn or fruit
trees and bushes bearing finer fruits
than the cans ever contained. The
yard Is never cleaned up, because
they hope to get moved away to the
new location in the fall or next year
and in the course of years they be-
come accustomed to the disagree
able surroundings, always hating the
spot just little.
Under these conditions they raise
a family. To these children 1t is home
in some respects and in others 1t
fails utterly. If they form any ideals,
they must be based upon the tin cans
in the door yard and the manure in
the barnyard. They have no idea
thrift and economy nor the fitness
of things. They boy grew up with
the idea that the saddle belongs in
the house and the cow on the manure
pile back of the stable. She is poorly
fed and poorly sheltered half of the
year, and he never knows what it Is
to have a cow that Is really source
of profit. He never knows what 1t is
to have a place for horses where
things are conveniently arranged,
where hay, grain and chop feed are
right at hand SO they can be fed lin
a moment to a string of horses and
cows; where hogs can be given good
feed in clean well-arranged hog
house. and where chickens can have
the privacy they need, and where
work horses eating their grain can
be free from the annoyance Of hun
cry fowls.
The daughter could not become a