The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-01-10
FARMING ON SCIENTIFIC BASIS.
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servants are all charged to the house
account. The farm pays for the gar
den. | mentionrtnese details be-
-eanse you ask about my methods.
For sixteen yaers-it is really nearly
eighteen have tired to find out
just how the farm stood at the end of
each year, and in spite of some fail
ues, especially those of last year and
the year before, due to the drought,
the average net has been consider
ably over two thousand and very
close to $4,000 q year"
What is your opinion of farming
as a business?"
Farming as a business? / think
it is excellent. An intelligent man
who is willing to work can make a
good living on a small farm and
there is no kind of life that is COM
parable to it in it's benefits to the
family. | am quite sure that my
men on this place get better food than
families in cities that have incomes
of $4,000 and $4,000 a year. More
over, they have the splendid health
of the open country and they know
how to enjoy life. With present
prices the farmer can more than
make ends meet financially and he
has those larger cOmpensations
which money cannot buy. The won
der to me is that there is not a far
greater demand for farmland. I be-
lieve it will come and already l see
indications of it in our Eastern
states"
There are three orchards. This
year the senator sold $50 barrels of
apples at an average of $1.75, all
primary apples except five barrels,
and the varieties were New Imper-
ial, Ben Davis, Samoke House and
Grimes Golden. A few early and
late varieties are also used. The
elder German planted 1000 peach
trees and his son planted 600, but
they all had to be got rid of be-
cause of the "yellows.' Enough
pears, plums, damsons and other
fruits for the house and family use
are raised, and there is a delight
full garden, artistic in it's plan and
details, which produces superior
qualities of small fruits and vege-
tables. Senator German believes in
spraying and he is very fond of hav-
ing the experts from the State Elk
pertinent Station come owe and look
at his trees. He is now restoring
and renewing the old orchard which
his father planted many years ago.
His policy with his fruit is the same
al that with his crops. He aims to
raise good sound stuff and to sell it
promptly, and he tries neither fancy
stock nor fancy packing. In fact, we
find that this practical note domin-
mates everything on the farm. Half
a mile from the mansion is a great
barn with immense piles of straw,
and in various parts of the farm are
the mounds of fodder and rough hay
near barns and barracks.
No part Of the farm shows neglect.
The machinery Is kept in condition
and is we'll protected. You can take
a thousand snapshots and get good
views of real farming. AS we drove
round I was much struck by the
Astounding cheerfulness. There was
a note of happiness in the life which
was wonderfully attractive.
And very fittingly, the climax of it
all was to be found in the home,
which rests upon the highest point
of this whole region; a beautiful
mansion of twenty-five rooms, on the
very crest of the ridge, between the
two branches of the Patuxent River,
500 feet above tidewater and COM
handing a view that extends for
many miles and that takes in its
circumference many other handsome
farm homes. For here miles back
from railroads, we find that men who
are tired of cites and public life are
seeking the charm and the health of
the hills.