The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-06
BETTER FARMS DEPARTMENT
The Republican Pays 81 Each Week for an Idea
on What You Have Planned to Increase
Your Crop Yield or Make Home More
Beautiful City Lot or Farm

years. He handles 125 acres and
has hired only about $50 worth of
labor this year.
w. H. Harker has 6 acres of very
fine Russell potatoes. In 1914 his
beets were thin In spots due to the
drill having checked at times during
the planting. Mr.. Harker observed
that where the beets were very thin,
they were also very large, and altho
he did not weigh them to make a
test, he thought the tonnage would
equal that where they were thicker.
Mr.. Harker has 8 Jersey cows and
one male, and he thinks the income
for cream this year will be about
$500. He keeps the stock in an old
straw stable, but is planning to build
a barn next year. He has some stock
from very fine ANNALS and anyone
wishing to buy a male would do we'll
to see Mr.. Harker. He was very
tnxious to raise heifers for milk
ows and about 80 per cent of the
increase of his herd have been heif-
erS.
James A. Adamson, of Shelley, is
building a barn 26x50 feet. with "a
frame made of pine boards. He has
two lean-tos, for stable room, 16x50
feet, with 5 foot single stalls Mr..
Adamson has we'll drilled III feet,
that cost 1853. He estimates that
it will cost $3.50 with gasoline en-
CINE for operating the pump.
A. c. Quigg, of Shelley, operates
farm of $40 acres. He has 100
acres in grain, IL acres in beets, and
40 acres in potatoes. Mr.. Quigg has
been grading the land to get it in
good condition for irrigation, and he
expects to keep seeding the land to
red clover in order to get the soil
in better condition. He is buying
some steers to eat the fall forage
on his fields.
Mark Austin, in discussin : rotation
needed to keep the land in good
condition, and keep down the weeds,
says it is best to raise hay twoyears,
potatoes one year, beets three years,
and then seed it again to hay with
grain as a nurse crop. This makes
the seven year rotation. Mr.. Austin
recommends blowing about one inch
deeper each year for beets, but never
turn up more than one inch OF new
soil at time.
]. F: Shelley says he raises the
best potatoes when he irrigates the
ground in the spring, and then plants
the crop. He raises such large
acreage of potatoes that he finds 1t
rather difficult to handle all this
way. If he has an alfalfa meadow
to plow up, he likes to pillow 1t in the
spring after it has been watered and
the grass has started to grow. In
this way 1t rots quickly and all old
roots disappear. Mr.. Shelley is rails
ing 200 acres of potatoes this year
on the Riverview farm, on the west
side of the river, west of Shelley, and
200 acres of beets.
Martin Jensen IS farming 80 acres
north of Shelley. He has 2 acres
of potatoes, IL of beets and some
other crops. Mr.. Jensen has all good
buildin s ON the place and Is planning
to build four room house this fall.
A. R. Woodward has 80 acres in
his farm, and IL acres Of 1t Is In
beets and / 7acres in potatoes. he
also has some pasture. Mr.. WOOD
ward came from Iowa five years ago.
Alfred Christensen has $50 acres
near Shelley, and is raising % acres
of beets, 80 acres potatoes, 80 acres
of grain, and 80 acres OF nay. he
has been grading the farm in order
to get it IN good condition so 1t will
irrigate perfectly. He has two sons
and hires two men in the spring ana
fall to help with the farming. Mr..
Christensen sold his farm few years
ago, during the boom, and took
lay-off for year. He found 1t very
disagreeable being a gentleman OF
leisure, and the other members OF
the family did not enjoy it any bet
ter than he did so they bought an
other farm and are making improve
ments on it.
Arthur Chapman has been on his
so acres near Shelley three years:
He is raising IS acres OF beets ana
- acres of potatoes this year.
J. w. Cook has 43 acres farm.
He has 10 acres of potatoes that are
very good. He is building an ice
house to store the 1916 ice crop.
The new railroad survey runs thru
Mr.. Cooks farm.
G. Cordes raises wheat on his
farm In 1915 his irrigated wheat
Welded So bushels per acre, and IN
1916, Al bushels. In 1915 his dry
land wheat yielded 20 bushels per
acre. and in 1916 just Z bushels.
His hay crop in 1916 was better than
that of the year before. Mr.. Cordes
is building a large potato cellar this
year. He has two daughters ana
they have a dry farm Of 800 acres
each, on the top of the mountain
range, east of Goshen. They maui
water about 4 miles up the mountain
for stock and domestic purposes. The
land is very smooth and If they mad
water on the mountain they could IT.
rigate it perfectly. They are plan
ming to build cistern in order TO
store snow water on the dry farm.
Mr.. Fielding has 80 acres in his
farm east of Shelley and Is raising
potatoes hay and grain. He Is build
ing a barn 24x4S feet with lean-tos
on each side, 16x4S feet. All OF his
buildings are arranged conveniently.
John r. Clark, who lives northeast
of Goshen, raised 35 acres OF pota.
tces and threshed 1000 bushels OF