The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-21
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DRS. RICHARDS
Phone 425
THE CUB SAYS
Mrs. M. A. Vickery, who lives
south of Firth, has tried planting
Virginia creepers and roses at hel
house, hoping to get the walls cover.
ed with foliage, but she declares that
nothing grows for her. She has been
taking lessons recently in soil pre-.
paration and will try again next
spring.
Heber Christensen has a big farm
east of Basalt and he operates two
threshing outfits with oil pull trac-
ton engines. He built a brick struc-
ture Is feet square, in which to cook
his hog feed. He tried it one winter,
but decided that it was not suitable
The cooked feed when left over night
freezes in the vat and gives him
trouble. He is feeding quite a lot OF
hogs now. and merely soaks the
wheat in the vat, feeding it to them
whole. Mr.. Christensen erected a
nice brick house a few years ago,
with a large screened in porch, He
does not like the porch because 1t
gathers the dust and snow and the
wind whistles thru it. He has there
fore decided to inclose it. He has
several farms, making him a total
of 435 acres and finds himself too
busy to be comfortable. Some OF
these lands are for sale at reasonable
prices.
Mr.. Christensen says that the
trouble with most of the farmers is
the same thing that is the matter
with him, too much land, too many
things to do in such a short season.
He SAYS he thinks the average farm
er knows what to do in most cases,
but simply does not and cannot carry
out his ideas. NM.
The farmers in the Rose district
reported that up to the tenth of June
they had very little hay, but since
that time have grown a pretty good
crop.
C. A. Taylor has installed a gaso-
line engine to operate his pumps,
and will use it for other machinery
about the premises. A tank will be
installed on top of the pump-house
to supply water for the house n
barn.
J H. w. Golf, of Shelley, has pur-
chased Edwin Taylor's farm at Rose
and is raising grain, beets M potas
toes. te
George Porter, of Rose, is build
ing a new barn with large hay NOW.
H. A. Gargner has a very fine tract
of timothy and alfalfa hay on MS
4O-acre farm at Rose. He says ne
watered the meadow early and thinks
that is the reason for the fine crop.
Settlers who want to get vines to
cling to the walls of their houses n
to shelter them from the heat In
and to beautify them as well
can get all the clematis plants they
want at the McGinnis farm above
Rose. They are growing wild IN
great numbers. Mr.. McGinn1s, not
knowing what they were burned a
long strip, expecting to clear them
,ut, but they are still f1~ourishlng on
he south side of his farm bordering
the river. Anyone desiring to set
them should dig a hole about as
large as a wash tub and one-nalI
foot deep, with the best soil they can
get mixing it with about one-fourtn
we'll rotted manure. The ground
should be plowed now for fall or
planting. 1t should be Kept
well moistened the rest of the season.
Do not use fresh stable anu OF
anything that is not well rotted. IL
will require a good while Tor tne
roots to get established, 1t may not
have n the first year, but the sec
ond it will go over the top OF the
house if it can find anything to cling
to. The best material for these
climbers is woven wire netting, TINS
can he attached to a frame building
to a brick wall with a few staples.
The clematis looks very much IKE
the grape vines. When transplanting
them cut back to two or three rect
and take up as much root with the
nlant as you can. Do not set them
where the dirty water from the caves
splash upon them, build a trough
TO carry the water away so IL Will
NOT heat down upon the plants.
sorensen brothers have a place
,,ose to the river on the Lava SIDE
canal. Their place is we'll protected
Nv the natural timber, and they nave
IS pure bred Duroc Jersey hogs anu
10 pigs. They have been upon tne
six years and are progressive
G. G. Allen, who lives on part OF
he Younie place, has an acre anu
half of Emmer wheat, when they
'av originated in Palestine. They got
heir seed from Worland, Wyoming,
nd II is used in making breakfast
GODS, They have a factory at Wor-
for making this product.
e, D. Olzon has As Duroc Jersey
logs at his place and 20 Poland
nina hogs. He is raising elgnt
80 1900 FOR the hogs. Mrs. Ol-