The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-07-09
THOSE IDAHO FOLKS

met very interesting character
a physician of the old school who
had practiced for many years in
Illinois and Iowa before the back
to-the-soil germ got to working in
his system. He had pulled UP
stakes and headed for the setting
sun. Here we found him, a man
in the seventies, knocking the whey
seys and raking in from $3.50 to
$3.50 a month for the butterfat.
There is a state experimental
farm near Gooding. We butted in
and found genial chap who wised
lis up on irrigation stunts, crop re-
tation, pasture grasses, and SO on.
We just cached bunch of infor-
nation in our noodle for future
use. 1t hadn't been our custom 10
60 much on the bunch of theoreti-
cal, kid-gloved farm instructors
but say, mister, you just tangle up
with some of the new sort, and they
can sure show you, and you slip
away thinking what small pump
kin you are.
A couple of days we'll spent and
beaded that cayuse's nozzle for
home. I snapped work with the
big Swede-went over and planted
a bunch of post holes for him.
Then he coupled his team and mine
to his grubber and went after the
rest of the sagebrush on my forty.
After raking it up and applying the
torch it was soon a thing of the
past With the sage all down we
hooked on to fourteen-inch walk
ing pillow, and the way we Topped
that sod upside down made the
birds sing.
Well, we leveled and narrowed
that ground until it looked like a
garden spot; planted it to Red Tur-
key winter wheat, corrugated it
and turned on just enough water
to pack down the corrugations and
moisten the ground. 1t wasn't
more'n a jiffy before that field
looked like St. Patrick's Day pa
rade-referring, of course, to color.
About Christmas we woke up one
morning and found that Nature
had covered it with mantle of
snow, and there it slept till Springs
wooing smile removed the spread
and breathed new life into it.
| want to tell you about one of
my neighbors-Berkshire Bill His
maiden name is Dougherty. Yes,
he's Irish. Bills got hog head
that is, he has got ahead Of every
body on hogs-Berkshire hogs
that have pedigrees longer than a
Jerusalem trail and noses like a
rainbow turned upside down.
The head of Bills herd is Jim
mic. He is sure a wise hog. ]
have been trying to induce Bill
and Jimmie to go on the stage. Bill
goes over to the pasture and calls.
Hey, Jimmie p That hog will
answer, "Yehe," then get up and
grab piece of broom handle that
is kept handy and carry it to Bill
so he can have his back and ears
Then Bill will make
him lie down and roll over like a
dog, sit up on his launches and
wink the other eye, looking Tor
bunch of dope that looks home
made piece of molasses candy 1
hat Bill feeds him. He has sew
eral other stunts that he does; but.
lear reader, you might think that
had gone loco if | told them, SO
will draw the. curtain.
Bill came to this country from
iowa and got job singing hash
or a bunch of Bo-hunks. Now
lie has forty-acre farm all in al
alta, and large family of thor
,ughbred Berkshire hogs. He is
,uying a motor car to take his
amily to the sideshow at Frisco.
This is the most healthful place
or hogs | ever struck, and | have
for trio of blue-rib-
'on pug-nosed hogs and am going |
0 get in the hog game. Maybe we
hall be able to get to Frisco on
he hog train. Anyhow | would
ot swap my forty-acre farm for
1urphy's interest in Tanlmany at
er Bill Sulzer got through with
i'm.
You may talk about Ponce de
con or any of those discoveries
f the Fountain of Perpetual
Touth, but Idaho has got them all
acked off the map. Three doc
ors lit in this town and they all
ad to 60 to farming to make liv-
lg. AS one of them said, 1T was
% disgustingly healthful.'
Well, l have got to jar loose and
ct busy for spring work, SO will