The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-09-01

as yet he has not found out the ex-
act cause of the rust. Mr.. Bishoff
raises some sugar beets and does
not water them till he Is obliged
to. He says when the bottom leaves
begin to show yellow that is his
sign for turning on the water. He
gave the beets their first water about
August 10 this year. Mr.. Bishoff
has some high, dry, knobs on his
farm where some volunteer alfalfa
has grown and yielded a very heavy
crop Of seed. He has decided to
plow it up and SOW to alfalfa hoping
by so doing to obtain either two crops
of hay or one crop of seed.
Ray Pepper, who lives on the old
Caps place, north of the sugar fac
tory, is n of the champion farmers
of that locality. Mr.. Pepper has a
fine tract of beets neal the house
that stand 20 to 25 inches in the
rows, and they are very thrifty. He
has 40 acres of beets altogether, five
acres of peas, five acres of potatoes
and some oats. Mr.. Pepper spread
500 loads of manure on his place the
past winter and spring. He had
about 100 head of hogs the first
of the month. but cholera broke out
among them and he lost some. Mr..
Pepper came here five years ago and
had rather a peculiar experience the
first year. He and an acquaintance,
who lived in the same community in
Utah, rented the farm he is now on.
This friend of his had some horses,
but Mr.. Pepper had none. Mr.. Pepper
had a little money and he agreed to
furnish the feed for the horses for
a year in exchange for service of the
horses on the farm. When spring
came this friend of his changed his
mind about farming and got to be-
having very badly. He would get
drunk on every occasion and finally
decided to leave. Mr.. Pepper thought
he could hold the gentleman to his
contract altho there was no way to
get even on the. five or six hundred
dollars he was out, and If he made
the fellow stay the chances were that
he would be so d~isagreeable it would
be almost unbearable. The friend
took his horses and left Mr.. Pepper
on foot, but Pepper is a poor gutter.
Since then he has gotten horses of
his own, has paid off his debts, count
ed on the education of his children,
bought a piano for the daughters and
established a reputation for meeting
his obligations. Mr.. PEPPER is trying
to arrange for a new lease, of five
years, on the same farm, when the
present lease expires.
E. J. Schofield has the place just
above the sugar factory where SO
much stock is fed on hay and pulp
put $50 loads of manure on his 40
acre farm. He used Is loads per
acre on the potato field and has a
very thrifty looking crop. He put
40 loads per acre on beet ground
and Is on wheat and hay land. He
used a manure spreader and disked
the meadow after manuring it. Mr..
Schofield has just harvested his
wheat crop which is a very heavy
crop of the Sonora variety. He was
afraid the crop would grow too tall
and fall down so he sowed 12O
pounds to the acre. 1t was too thick
to grow high, but stood about three
and a half to four feet and the heads
are very heavy. He has three and
a half acres of Russell potatoes, As
hogs left, which he is getting ready
for market by feeding them on chop
ped wheat and mangles. He also has
a registered thorobred Duroc Jersey
which weighed 26O pounds at the age
of 10 months.