The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-01-10

season was more than swallowed up
in the losses in storage. believe
the farmer ought to sell all he can
from the field.
Senator you are five miles from
a railroad, and it would be interest
ing to know how you run place OF
nearly a thousand acres-that is,
where you get your help?"
II keep nine men regularly. and !
try to treat them we'll, and pay all
of them good wages. These wages
have increased Is per cent in three
years. In. former days my men re-
ceived allowances We killed from
so to 60 hogs and gave each man
from 20 to rs pounds of meat a
month, and also -four, cornmeal, s''"-
ar and coffee. A few years age
stopped the allowances and paid ca
instead-that is, the extra cash GOV
ing what the allowances amounted
to. When said that the wages have
increased Is per cent in three years
I meant that this increase way be-
yond the value of the old allowances.
The manager is we'll paid, and his
wife receives regular sum for look
ing after the chickens and dairy. or
course they also get their food.
The other men receive good wages.
II aim to allow them all reason
able privileges, such as the use
horses and permission to attend what
is going on in the neighborhood. My
only firm rule is that two of them
must always remain on the farm.
The question of extra help is becom-
ing more hopeless all the time. This
fall could have used half dozen
more men than was able to get.
With us two influences have been at
work the state is building good
roads and is paying So day for
eight hours work Then the horse
races at Laurel are drawing many Of
them, and there is constant drift
of the negroes to the cities. But we
have quite a number of good men
back here in the country and at a
pinch we all jump in and do the best
we can"
These men say that Senator Cor
man is himself one of the most eff
ficient of the workers; that he can
perform any task on the farm and
that he is especially effective in the
bayfield,. There are local accounts
and pictures of how the young farm
er does his share of the work and
credits himself faithfully on the
books for all the time he puts in.
Senator German smilingly declined
to discuss this, but he was very glad
to tell of his bookkeeping.
II have been keeping these ac-
cunts for over sixteen years" he
said. and find them most useful,
as we'll as an interesting record Of
what the farm has done and can do.
There is a separate account for each
field; all the items of what goes into
it and what comes out of it are re-
corded This includes the time, the
labor, the seed, the horses used, the
feed consumed by the horses, and so
on. We try to get approximately
the weekly cost of work and all this
work is charged against the field in
weeks or fractions of weeks.
"Of course fertilizers figure prom
inently. l am now experimenting
with fertilizers and am finding a
most interesting difference in fields.
The same fertilizer does well in one
field and seems to be worthless in
and for all the luxuries that we OBJ
tain from the farm. The engine
supplies the water for both the house
and the farm buildings. The part
of the supply that comes to the house
is charged to household expenses.
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