The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

The subject of this sketch does not
/ own all the peas in America, but 1t
takes the full set of Ps to write his
! name, which is Farley P. Price. Mr..
Price came to this co nty as joke
and in struck in on him and he stay
ed. 1t came about in this way: He was
running sheep in the mountains and
! when the rules of the forest reserve
made it me- essary for man to own
real estate in a county in order to
get in on the grazing lease, Mr.. Price
said he would play the game out. ana
he got off of train at Blackfoot to
buy some hay and real estate. Tht
Short Line had just completed theh
new depot in 1918, and from the
platform he began to admire the
town. He walked around few bio ky
admiring the pretty homes and noting
the shade and comfort everywhere
Louis Felt came along looking fol
hay hands, and Mr. Price said he v as
looking for hay without any hands at.
tached, so Felt took him to the ran h
and sold him his clip" Price liked
everything he saw and asked Felt to
sell him the land tie. hay grew on
and right soon Mr.. Felt had draft
and Mr.. Price had deed to Al acres,
and agreed that if they did not
change their mind they would build
on 1t in 1914, which they did. Mrs.
Price was accustomed to city life at
Salt Lake, but they built a modern
bungalow installed a water system
with gasoline engine for power, hook
ed up the churn and washing ma
chine V it'll the pump and proceeded
to have a very good time. Mr.. Prize
had been doing his banking in Salt
Lake with The National Bank of the
Republic an when he came here he
TIA "f'-led his accounts to Black
foot ano male up his mind that he
'""r :; IN He is In partnership
IN the = ep business with S. A. Judd,
ais, ct al Lake at that time, but
Judds rel Gated the experience OF the
Price f; " lily They are now located
on al :. ming 40 acres and are just
getting a-ttled in their new bunga-
low but - another story.
Mr.. 'ln, ed 5000 sheep on the
farm last winter The gasoline engine
suppl &C the running water and the
soil was imp we'd by the feeding.
In the spring when they we're ready
to take the flocks into the desert
range, he cut out about hundred
Of the weaklings that he felt sure
would not survive IL taken on the
range and tie fed thom on the place,
allowing Il en- the freedom OF the
farm. They .srent most Of their time
along the ditch banks and in fence
corners and weed strips and became
choice muttons. During the spring
and summer they were I'll marketed
and he considered that the money
was almost like hy-product. The
farm had made hin tho se few humid
red dollars and &c lad hardly felt
1t. The flocks s1mIle I'd IN the Carl
bou forest reserve lrr are now feed
ing on beet tops on tn ia ms in the
valley. They are conducting an in
teresting experiment with 1900
lambs. They were offered $3.50
apiece for them for delivery the fif-
teenth of September, but they decid
ed to buy field forage and beet tops
and keep them until the first Of De-
cember and see If they can make
$500 profit by holding them the
65 days. Mr.. Price says he has driven
over the country a great deal, OBJ
serving crop conditions and the meth
DDS of the farmers and when they
were buying pasturage he noticed
that the poorer farmers with the
poorer yields were the ones who
wanted to sell their forage. Those
who had the heavy crops usually had
stock of their own to eat it. He
thinks a farmer can feed 100 sheep
for the year for about $3.50, includ-
ing the cost of shearing. A farm
fed sheep shears about eight pounds
Of wool worth from $1.60 to So.
100 ewes on the farm will raise 100
lambs, good for Sc head in june
or July at the age Of four or five
months. Their 1915 lambs of about
the first Of May brought them $3.50