The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-10-29
STARTLING CONDITIONS ON
BINGHAM COUNTY FARMS

l1ey and raised crop from it. He
says this Is the fourth year they have
been raising grain in his neighbor-
hood and it has always matured
they have had some damaged by
frost Most of those high valleys
were in the phosphate reserve, with
drawn from entry for a number of
years and were only released and
opened for settlement last year, so
this Is the first season they have had
a chance to farm. He says there are
all kinds of people among the new
settlers; some very good people and
some not so good. Some of them
are building good houses and then
there are others building the merest
huts or shacks Some of them are
plowing and making improvements.
Others file on land along streams and
then apply to the sheepmen to buy
their pasturage, which in effect
amounts to selling them the privilege
of going to water. One man and his
several sons took claim apiece along
a stream in such a wayNthat they con-
Itrolled the watering facilities for
long distance. They made sales of
their grass at about $25 per half Sec
ltion, and that carried with it the
right to drink of the waters of the
lcreeks. In the course of Mr.. Nor
Igan's remarks he said, II bought
some pasture for the privilege of
grazing up to a snow deposit, and in
lmy case | was really buying snow
privilege. | gave some fellows en-
ployment with the understanding that
my stock might Craze on lands they
had filed on. In that way they in
directly filed on summers job.
Some of the sheepmen gave settlers
a certain number of muttons for their
pasturage, figuring that they would
get mutton anyway, and they might
as well have it on the square and
Ithe sheepman have the grass on the
square. When we have to buy our
grazing privileges from SO many diff
ferent persons dickering independents
| ly we naturally get the worst of it,
and it is destroying the stock indus
! try"
A Good Farmer
James Priest has 81 " acres: Po-
tatoes, 13 acres, 125 sacks wheat,
, IL acres, As bushels: oats, five acres,
SO bushels; barley two and half
acres, 80 bushels; hay, Is acres, three
tons.
Old Settler Succeeding
c. Anderson, 800 acres Beets,
seven acres, IA or 5 tons; potatoes,
five acres, 100 sacks; wheat, 20 acres,
|20 bushels; oats, four acres, Is bus
hels; barley, three acres, 81 bushels;
peas, five acres, fed to hogs; hay,
100 acres, two crops; has $500 sheep
dozen hogs; has one Bartlett pear
tree about 20 years old that bore 16
boxes worth $40. 1t bore very little
until IL or IA years old.
Real Estate Man Talks
T. ]. BENEFITS place farmed by
Jap tenant: Potatoes, ID acres, 60
sacks, on alfalfa ground not well
plowed and cleaned; beets, 40 acres,
IL to ID tons.
| May Clark, Moreland Wheat, IL
acres, 3S bushels; from one acre of
orchard and garden she harvested the
following: so bushels applies, five
bushels pears, four bushels crab ap-
piles. four and half bushels prunes,
l7O crates raspberries, one bushel
lplums, five bushels sweet corn, one
tbushel pop corn, 5heads cabbage,
one bushel peas, two bushels onions,
10 bushels carrots, 28 squash, 10
pumpkins, one bushel rhubarb. Mrs.
Clark's report was sent in by mail
and is much appreciated She apollo
gized for her writing not being very