The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-11-19

Early in November he had to go to
digging, and by the fifteenth they
were freezing in the ground. He got
IA or Is tons per acre and but for
the special attention he gave to get
ting the seedbed in such perfect con-
dition he would likely have raised
20 tons. If Mr.. Hale and Superin-
tendent George Smith could blend
their two leading ideas, plant very
early, have the seeded in perfect
condition, they would raise champion
crops. They have both been rating
high and making money on beets.
was paying and kept on smiling. He
T. G. Bond has just had some hog
houses built at the Bond farm in
West Groveland. They are built
with cement foundations and back
walls, with two-inch timber frames,
heavy doors all bolted and made
strong. They are, built facing the
sun and are somewhat open on the
sunny side No arrangement has
been made for closing them in
stormy weather. There are as yet
no feeders or hangers or watering
devices in the pens, but we are in
formed they will be put in later. Mr..
Bond is having a large poultry house
built and will construct brooder
before spring.
Patrick Murphey & Sons, west of
Riverside, 40 acres: Hay, so acres,
two crops; potatoes, 10 acres, 100
sacks; wheat, so acres, As bushels;
oats, 10 acres, 70 bushels. They have
a stone house, stone barn and stone
machine house built of frame from
the square up. Everything in the
way of implements is we'll housed.
They have to large granaries full of
wheat Their we'll is sealed with ce-
ment SO a drop of surface water could
not get in. Everything is built neat
and strong, gates and doors hung on
hinges or operated on rollers. They
grade their lands carefully so they
water as perfectly as possible.
E. N. Day, near Virden switch,
above Pingree, bought 80 acres four
years ago at $55 an acre, and con-
siders it worth about double that
now. Raised 10 acres of potatoes,
10 acres of beets, hay, grain, grass
and alfalfa. Just had fair yield of
each.
w. H. Scott, 100 acres about three
niles northeast of Pingree: Hay and
pasture los acres; beets, 40 acres,
II tons; potatoes, five acres, 100
Jacks. He weighed his potatoes and
S storing them. He will weigh them
when sold and compute the shrink
lge. Wheat, five acres, 30 bushels
,er acre, watered once. In 1911 he
fought "Gaddy." Gaddy was a shote
hat would not stay at home nor any
where else. She just went around
tudying the country to see what
'ordered Pingree. She finally jecid-
ID to replenish the earth, and in
ater issue Of this paper we shall tell
low we'll she succeeded. BY the way,
you drive out that way, just look
ver the Scott fields and pastures and
ry counting her defendants. You'll
want to buy shote right away, and
cott won't sell you one. He has
earned the value of shotes.
John Josephson, east of Pingree,
60 acres: Beets, 25 acres, Is tons;
'heat, 10 acres, 80 bushels; oats, six
cres, 40 bushels; barley, 10 acres,
0 bushels; hay, 60 acres, five tons;
cas-, 10 acres, 121s bushels; pota-
pes, four acres, not harvested.
r. P. Cope, east of Pingree, 100
ores: Mr.. Cope watered his beets
% soon on account of the fear that
ne canal would go dry and leave him
ithout any. He found that 1t stunt
d the beets and left the ground in
an condition so they did not recover
'om 1t at all. The yield varied from
Inc to Is tons. u He will grade his
round better and try again next
BAR. He wants to raise 40 or sol
res, and contract the hand work.
r. Cope has been Keeping some cat
9 and finds II pays, even itiane has
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