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

cation, binding, binder Irvine, shock
ing, hauling the straw to the stacks,
cutting bands, putting the straw
through the machine, Git is left as
stubble) measuring and dumping the
half bushel, sacking, sacking Irvine,
storage, rattage, loss on sacks. They
have hundreds of Duroc Jersey hogs
ranging on the stubble fields, and
when they want to fatten the larger
ones, they put them in a large feed
yard with a feeder" that holds a
wagon load of grain. The hogs gather
around 1t and feed themselves the
wheat, and they never get hungry
enough nor in enough of a hurry to
gulp 1t down without chewing. The
wind mill supplies the tanks with
pure water, and the automatic water
ing device enables the hogs to at
tend to watering themselves. When
they drink so the water line falls to
a certain level, the fresh water flows
from the tank until the trough is
full when it stops flowing. By these
means the hogs do their own chores.
The pigs on the range, (stubbles)
water themselves in the same way at
the tanks outside of the feed yard.
When coyote attacks the pigs they
wheel into circle and fight with a
fury until Mr.. Coyote is repulsed,
then they make mastery retreat.
There are two parts to this enter
prise; the dry farming and the hogs.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

it and kept on working. In short this
new man Conklin raised such good
crops that people from town used to
drive out by his place to look them
over and show them to their friends.
He became unpopular by remarking
that beet tops we're worth five dollars
an acre for stock feed Why that
was more than it would cost to hire
the fall blowing done; there must be
some mistake about it. But Conklin
could get more beets-more tops per
acre than the rest of them, so it was
no use following up the argument;
it only put them deeper in the hole.
A rather famous writer named Sir
Phillip Sydney has recorded that, at
many times falls out, that we deem
ourselves much deceived in others,
because we first deceived ourselves. :"
We have heard number of failure
farmers say that this man Conklin
is a good farmer. Still they go or
farming in their good old way. There
are others who have watched his
methods and borrowed them with
gratifying. results. There lies 4 the
hope for our farmer fraternity. Conk-
lin and others operate demonstration
farms, and they are scattered around
over the county so all can study
them.
The proof of a mans success is
what he accomplishes. Conklin was
in debt heavily 10 years ago, and had
no good buildings on his place. He
has good buildings now, and he does
mt operate the pump handle now like
he used to. A big steel windmill
fights the air currents, and puts
water in the pressure tank, supplies
the stock and the house. and enables
him to be doing something else. The
bungalow is 30x54 feet in size with
a full basement, milk room with
water equipment, bath room, hot and
cold water where they want it, gaso
line lighting system, telephone, fur
mace heat, and nobody running after
Conklin with bill. He has located,
his boys on parts of his possessions,
and bought the High Anderson ranch
of 100 acre as speculation. The
boys are farming it too, it is not los
ing them any money and it is for
SALE If you visit any of the Conklin
farms now you will see lot of hogs
and sheep and few horses and cat
tie. There is room in the county for
more of these new fellows who may
need information about farming, but
most of them who come from Nebras-
ka and Colorado can combine what
they learned in the two places ana
show our old timers some new tricks.
Conklin says he would feel very much
discouraged if he had to go and farm
in any place where he had to depend
upon the rain. He likes to irrigate,
but still he works his cultivators and
harrows long and hard to stave Off
the need of irrigation.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

brings many changes in men and
laws, but justice seeks out it's course
on the same principles throughout,
regardless of the conflicting views
and interests of men. A man be-
comes what he is by what he does,
and one possessing a judicial temper
ment and love of analysis and seek
ing the true solution of differences,
serving quarter of century at his
task develops his powers and facul-
ties to unusual degree. When such
a one preserves his honor and the
confidence and respect of men and
has no keener ambition than to have
his work we'll done, the difficulties
and uncertainties of litigation are re-
duced and placed on the proper basis.
Such has been the service rendered
by Judge Sullivan. His extern
sive knowledge of the law, his keen
perceptive powers, his uniform dis
interestedness in anything but to ad-
minister justice, make him not only
acceptable but most desirable to sue
coed himself. There is always some
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03
Man Makes No
Climatic Changes

The popular belief and the oft-as-
serted statement that during the set
Element of new territory and placing
it under cultivation makes changes
in temperature and climatic condi-
lions is fatty contradicted by the fol-
lowing letter:
U. s. Department of Agriculture. Gil
matological Service of the Wealth r
Bureau, Idaho section, Boise, Ida
no, November 3, 1915.
Mr. Byrd Trego,
Blackfoot, Idaho.
Dear Sir:
Referring to your letter of the first
instant, permit me to say that since
systematic records have been kept
there has been no evidence of a pro-
gressive change of climate anywhere
in the world. 1t has been quite popu-
lar to believe that settlement, culti-
walton, irrigation, deforestation, etc.,
must have some effect on climate, but
after studying the matter very care
fully scientists have been compelled
to admit that the forces that control
climate operate on too large a scale
to be affected by anythir 6 that man
can do.
In this connection permit me to
say further that If this office can
be of any service to you in supplying
matter for your treatment Of frosts,
windbreaks, precipitation, we shall
be more than glad to serve you.
Very Respectfully,
EDWARD L. WELLS,
Section Director.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

The farming has passed the expert
mental stage, but there are still some
problems yet to be solved as to hogs.
The average yield of the last crop OF
winter wheat was about "a bushels
per acre, but the spring wheat and
the other together reduced 1t to an
average of 30. The yield is higher
here than in Kansas where the land
is pigher priced.
The problem with the hogs is to
provide a cheap means of feeding
them for few months prior to the
time of letting them out upon the
stubble field. Third crop alfalfa hay
raised on irrigated farms in connec-
tion with grain is passable but not
satisfactory. Hogs might be kept on
irrigated farms during all the year
except while the feed is good on the
stubbles. The dry farmers might
sell the forage on their stubbles to
hog men" as the beet raisers do
the beet tops to the sheep men, pro-
vided, of course, that the circuit of
the fields used did not make too
great territory to move the hogs
over during the season. The hogs
very readily adapt themselves to the
locations of the feed and the water
and would need but very little herd
ing. Raising hogs as by-product
on the stubbles is worthy of study
and may prove profitable.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

There is place on the map called
Kansas. In its early history 1t was
set aside as reservation for people
who held different views as to slavery.
After those differences were settled it
was used to. test mems patience look
ing for rain that never came until
after they had gotten done needing
it. Men grew old working on the
problem of how to store moistu e
that came at the wrong time, and how
to hold it for use during the growing
period. One of the deciples of Camp
bell who studied long and hard on
these matters was j. B. Sage, now a
resident of Shelley, Idaho, who
brought some of the lessons with him
that he had taken from nature in the
land of hot winds and corn stalks.
Mr.. Sage had learned the lessons
very we'll of blowing and leaving the
ground rough for the rainy season,
then at the very beginning of the dry
ing period, using the disc and harrov
and drag and whatever would firm
the soil and make the surface fine
and smooth, filling cracks and pores
after each shower and preventing the
wind from getting into the soil or the
moisture from getting out. The OBJ
ject of the frequent working and rub
bling of the surface is to form what is
called "dust blanket" to hold the
moisture under the surface where the
plant roots can lay hold of it, and to
kill the weeds that engage in suck
ing up the moisture and evaporating
it through the foliage. Soil that is
loose allows the air to move through
it and carry out the moisture. Ground
that is firm and covered with a dust
mulch retains the moisture. Ground
that is hard has vertical pores in it
that scientists call capillaries and the
moisture pours out upon the surface
through the capillaries just as smokes
pours out of chimney. Put a
blanket over the chimney and the
smoke stays in the open spaces in the
house. Leave the ground hard, and
even If the plant is rooted and the
moisture is there, the roots cannot
get to the moisture and it cannot pass
to the roots With the ground mel
low but firm the moisture held in the
open spaces between soil particles the
root system can extend and the mois-
ture can move to the roots; they suck
up the moisture and receive with it
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03
PRINCIPLES OF DRY -'~-'--'''7- -
FARMING EXPOUNlDED
B. Sage Sons demonstrate successfully the desert


1.-THE plant food held in solution. If
weeds mingle their root systems with
the other plant roots, the weeds get
part of this nourishment away from
the cultivated plant and it fails or
partly fails in its possibilities.
To get back again to Mr.. Sage and
ito Idaho and it's conditions, Mr. Sage
observed that conditions in Bingham
county were so nearly like those in
that part of Kansas that he came
from, with the exception of the hot
winds and the bad storms, he reached
the conclusion that if land was plow-
ed in the fall or spring, narrowed at
intervals to kill the weeds and keep
the surface from. coating and crack
ing during the period of occasional
showers and then harrow and rub it
sufficiently to form the dust mulch
or blanket to hold the moisture dur
ing the dry, hot period. the wheat
could be drilled into it in the latter
part of August and the stored mois
ture would terminate and bring it up
The rain and snow of the winter sea-
son would store enough moisture to
AlutuA IL IL IL WClC again
after each spring shower up the to
time the grain was in the boot. Act
ing upon this theory Mr.. Sage
and sons secured 1900 acres of
land on the west side of Snake
river opposite Shelley, adjoining
the lavabeds, and proceeded to
make it the home of Turkey Red
wheat where crop should be raised
every two years on each tract.
The lands were plowed and har-
rowed with a steam pillow outfit that
left the sage brush nearly all on
top of the ground and it was raked
up with strong sulky rake. After
burning the brush the ground was
disced and narrowed and "fioated"
until they had fine seed bed with
the ground we'll firmed. The wheat
was drilled in August or early Sep
tember-the latter part of August is
the best. The blowing outfit cuts
a 1O-foot swath, and the drills IL and
IA respectively, and the headers Cut
12-foot swath The grain is thresh-
ed in the field at central places, and
the wheat as it runs from the ma
chine goes directly into the big wagon
waiting to receive it, and from there
it goes to the mill or to the box car.
They cut out all the expense of irri-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03
AN HISTORIC SPOT
YIELDS BIG CROPS
Old camp grounds of Captain Bonneville
HGEIHI6INGHMGIaIHIHIH HGmlmnEEzh1HGaGa

Johnson Brothers, at Sterling, live
on an historic spot. Their farm is on
the Big Meadows east of Sterling and
south of Springfield, where Captain
Bonneville wintered a detachment of
his men in 1884, the winter before
Fl. Hall was established; the winter
before the stars and stripes first
foated from fagpole in all this in
termountain country. The seat of
both of these events was just across
Snake river few miles from their
place, and just above what is known
as the Tilden bridge. Captain Bonnie
ville's men wintered on the same
meadows where Johnson Brothers,
the Rice Brothers and others are now
farming, and where some discoveries
have just been made that rival the
discoveries of the famous captain
and explorer. Men have been run
ming cattle" on the bottoms for a
generation or more, under the belief
that this was all the country was
good for. Last year they consented
to try some sugar beets, and were
very successful. With inexperience
they raised as high as II tons per
acre, and that gives profit sufficient
to have bought the best acres in the
whole bottoms few years ago. With
in the past four years or so the price
of land has wobbled around till one
we'll versed in beet raising would
have a hard time to make land pay
for itself out of the profits of beet
crop or two, and now that the word
Is getting out that the sugar men
say "The Bottoms" are the best beet
land in the country, folks are not SO
keen to sell.
Johnson Brothers located there in
1890, and have raised hay and grain
and some stock and gradually accum-
ulated all the comforts of home for
themselves and their animals. They
raise fruit and poultry and all the
things that help make country life
pleasant. They ride an Overland car
and declare they would not be with
out one again. The coming winter
they will feed sheep on the ranch,
will build Landing quarters and equip
for taking the best of care of the
llocks and have always planned to
feed everything on the place rather
Than have it hauled off. They are in
terested in another new industry
lately discovered and applied here, !
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

one to position of vital importance
without considering his preparation,
his natural fitness or even his integ-
rity, and sometimes on no more rea-
sonable ground than merely to know
that he is cripple or was once In
the army or that he failed in busi-
ness or that he needs the money.
In the case at hand, that of filing
place on the supreme bench of the
state, the most important thing that
can be said is that Idaho needs Judge
Sullivan. Idaho has made mistakes.
and Judge Sullivan has helped to
right them. Idaho has had political
corruption and dishonest officials, but
Judge Sullivan has not been one Of
them. He has weighed evidence at
fecting acquaintance, friends and OPP
ponents, but such things do not af-
feet his decisions. He is not wealthy
man as wealth goes. He is not a
cripple nor soldier nor he does not
need the money" He can better
afford to lay down the mantle of his
position than Idaho can afford to
have him leave it.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03
Mayor and Farmer

j. H. Berg, mayor Of Basalt and
operator of dry farm on Spring
creek, a tributary of the Blackfoot
river, says he has the old Lee Warren
place and keeps his family there
three months in the summer and they
have cows, chickens and pigs. He
finished the sowing of 70 acres of
winter wheat about the last of Oc-
tober. He had 30 acres of wheat In
1915 that yielded 25 bushels; 80
acres of oats, % bushels; and he fed
his barley to the hogs. They have
500 acres among them and it Is all
patented.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03
Idaho Needs His Services
In the State Judiciary

opposition to such men, even II for
no other grounds than that given by
a Roman citizen when voting for Q
senator when he scratched" his bal
lot, sea shell, for the opposition,
saying the senator was all right for
reelection, but he was tired of hear
ing everybody speak we'll of him.
There is a certain element in our
own country and more especially in
the west, who voice similar senti-
ment, but who express 1t in language
like this: "Oh, he has had the place
long enough. Let somebody else have
it." And they vote to elect some
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

the raising of alfalfa seed. One of
the Rice Brothers on an adjoining
farm had a few acres too high to
.irrigate and he sowed it to alfalfa as
an experiment. 1t grew thin and
rugged, and on being left alone it
produced such crop of alfalfa seed
that they wished the whole farm had
been too high to water and had by
accident been left in alfalfa to die
or flourish as it might. The locality
has many cold springs and one OF
such volume that it affords both
water and power such as can be har-
messed for a factory, and the build
ing of a sugar factory is considered
entirely probable to relieve the con-
gested condition at the Blackfoot
factory.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03
Former Blackfoot Resident
Now on the Federal Bench

listed as to the acts of men in judicial
positions, the name of Judge Dietrich
has never been associated with them.
Successful in his business invest
ments, worker, plodder, man
of Lofty ideals and practical, we take
pleasure in saying to our readers
that we need many more men like
him, and if he had chosen farming
as his vocation instead of the prac-
tice of law, we believe he would have
dealt justly with every acre, made it
do it's best, raised gentle stock and
treated them with a marked degree
OF consideration, surrounded his barD
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03
Preparing for Hogs

7. 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 vet
no feeders or managers or watering
devices in the pens, but we are in,
formed they will be put in later. Mr.
Bond is having large poultry house
built and will construct a brooder
before spring.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

The subject of this sketch was
formerly a resident of Blackfoot, hav-
ing come here from Ottawa, Kansas,
in the year 1891, with a university
education and integrity and industri-
GUS habits as his capital. Ever since
that time he has been operating them
and his service to his clients, his COM
munity and his state, bespeak sue
cessful career in which his friends
have found much satisfaction for
over 20 years At Blackfoot he was
associated with T. NJ Stewart, now
of Los Angeles, and in the year 1899,
he went to Pocatello where he filled
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

As Chief Justice I. n. Sulhvan's
term of office expires January 3,
1917, in next years campaign it will
be necessary to re-elect Linn or choose
his successor
Judge Sullivan has been on the
bench in the service of this state
since November 8, 1890. The person
mel of the court, aside flom him, has
changed many times, and it has been
his privilege to help the new mem
bers to familiarize themselves with
the procedure of this high tribunal
as they have come into their respec-
tive positions. Twenty-Five years
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

with conveniences and his house with
things of convenience and beauty,
and would have been foremost in en-
couraging his sons and daughters to
work in the pig club, the potato club.
the sewing club and the canning club.
While Judge Dietrich was living
at Blackfoot he courted and married
Miss Matte Behle, eldest daughter of
DR.. w. H. Belle, and they have three
children, Margaret, Isabel and Frank.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

tho important position of legal coun-
sci for The. Oregon Short Line for
eight years when President Roose-
welt appointed him to the position
of judge of the federal court for Ida
no, place he still fills with eminent
satisfaction.
Whatever discussions have arisen
over the conduct of men in high sta
ton in Idaho, whatever criticism has
been aimed at courts or suspicion ex-