The Idaho Republican., 1915-10-08

he grows wormy apples, he cannot
hope to sell them. He must either
keep the orchard pruned and sprayed
and the fruit thinned right or lose. :"
Preparing for Rain
Frank Brown farms the Lizzie
Shannon place and raised 10 acres
of beets, three or four of potatoes,
20 of hay and has some other crops
and orchard. He was putting a new
roof on the barn.
Merchant in the Suburbs
Lester Wood, the proprietor of
Woods Feed store, on West Bridge
/ street, has built "a very pretty resi-
dence just northeast of the State ad-
dition to Blackfoot, and raised six
acres of beets and an acre of pota-
toes. ,4
Salesman and Agriculturist
Martin Jacobson and Jack Burns
operate two farms above and below
the cemetery with a total of 20 acres.
They report fairly good crops
throughout. Mg. Jacobson has been
a saleman most Of his time, and takes
his old place with The Brown-Hart
company the fifteenth of this month.
HuI1ah for Little Lost!
John R. Rogers, one of the early
settlers of Little Lost river, owner
of much livestock, and considerable
real estate in Blackfoot, including
the Commercial hotel, has fine farm
near Howe, and displayed perfectly
perfect rural potatoes that weight
three pounds apiece. The oats, he
said, threshed 1875 bushels per acre
in the average and wheat about go,
not only on his place but the neigh
bors. He says that in addition to
the best soil he ever saw, they have
the &c. E." glorious climate, on Lit
tie Lost. tempered all summer by the
heat of the desert flowing up the val
ley and provoking everything to out
grow itself. Alfalfa seven feet high
is one of the examples he spoke of,
and he complimented the dry farmers
in his section, saying that their nec-
essities under misfort ne had driven
them to every extremity of cropping
without irrigation, and they had ac-
complished what had always been re-
garded as impossible IN that locality.
They had taught the old residents
some valuable lessons in farming and
perseverance, and in taking these les
sons home to themselves the whole
agricultural fraternity had been
greatly benefited. Mr.. Rogers is one
of the oil lest residents of the valley,
after mentioning the Hawley brothers
who recently passed away, and he re-
marked that this was a reminder to
him that he might be next in line.
He is 67 years old and looks the
picture of health.
Cotton, Beets and Squash
John Cotton, who lives three miles
below town. between the rivers, has
perhaps, the champion patch of sugar
beets. To see them Is the only way
to appreciate them, and as they have
not yet been dug, we cannot give the
yield, but hope to report upon them
later. He planted some pie pumpkins
among his trees, and they grew in
such profusion and ripened so well,
it holds out the hope of the real
pumpkin pies to the whole commun-
ity if only some dealer will under
take to circulate them with the tur-
keys. Mr.. Cotton also raised hubbard
squash galore, and brought four to
own Saturday that weighted together
1O7 pounds. He raised tract of the
red corn from seed furnished by The
Idaho Lumber company, and it ma
tured, with many ears a foot long.
If he continue farming he will make
corn one of his crops. Mr.. Cotton
has been suffering with severe stom-
ach trouble for some months and is
planning to give his first attention to
remedying this trouble.
If He Only Could
J. S. Harper, who lives at Nc
Donaldville has some very fine onions
and carrots, He states that he dug
ten bushels OF carrots from a square
rod Of ground, and at the same rate
he could raise 1900 bushels to the
acre, but alas for mathematics he