The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-06

what he raises on the farm. He says
he sold $4,000 worth of hogs in 1915.
T. Mishado is a Japanese farmer
living northeast of Shelley. He has
80 acres of good beets, rs acres of
very good potatoes, acres Of hay,
and 10 acres of grain. He says the
grain threshed 81 bushels per acre.
He has been on the place for three
years. Mr.. Mishado is raising a horse
colt that Is five months old and
weighs 900 pounds This ishis first
venture in live stock and he is rather
proud of it.
A. T. and George H. Lawrence have
240 acres Of land northeast of Shell
ley. Mr.. Lawrence is one of the old
timers IN the valley and was once in
partnership with Charles Bunting of
Blackfoot, and Mr.. Lining, of the
firm of Lining & Wallace, of Salt
Lake City. Mr.. Lawrence was in
volved in the Bunting failure and
lost $4,000 in the crash. He says
he has been working this 25 years
to get that $4,000 back. He and
his son operate steam thresher and
he says the crop Is very short for
this year, and they will finish the
threshing campaign five or six weeks
earlier than usual. On their own
ranch they raised So acres of potatoes
and 1000 bushel of wheat. They
had 100 acres of ground that they
wanted to pillow up and plant to grain,
but they could not get it done so
they left it lying idle. So much al
falfa and sweet clover was growing
on it that 1t went to seed and he
thinks they will make as much on the
seed as they could have done on
grain If it had been planted to grain.
Mr.. Cook lives on a 40 acre farm
southeast of Shelley, and he is trying
to get the land graded perfectly for
irrigation. Mrs. Cook and the child
rem raise some garden and are very
successful with it. She put up 119
quarts of beans this year. besides
drying some and giving great quanti-
a good cook and advocates doing con-
siderable work in the garden to save
expense on the grocery bills.
Oscar Burek, of Taylor, is building
a granary Of lumber, as we'll as i'm
proving the house. He expects to
erect large barn this year If the
crops turn out we'll and turn into
money as he hopes they will.
L. p Christensen has new brick
house of three rooms, with bath and
water system to be put. in later.
He is installing the pipes for the
water system, but has not got the
we'll yet.
H. X. Hansen raised 1921 sacks
of potatoes on nine acres, making
141 sacks per acre. He has IA acres
of red clover seed and 25 acres of
potatoes yet to harvest.
w. w. LamOn, Of the United States
Beet Seed company, is at the farm
Of ]. ]. Jensen, near Goshen, and has
charge Of the several farms rented
by his company, for the purpose of
raising beet seed. They have rented
for a term of years the farms of
Ezra Christensen, DR.. H. e. Mcmillan,
J. L. Moore, J. J. Jensen and ]. P.
Johnson. Mr.. Lamon came here from
Hamfort. California, in the San Joa-
quin valley.
Jacob Steeples has 100 acres in his
farm and has fine new house that
he built in 1918. He is planning to
build a new barn within a year or
SO. He has little dairy herd and
milks them by means of the Sharp
less mechanical mixer. He uses a
gasoline engine to operate the mixer,
pump and separator. He has a 4 h.
p. Fairbanks-Morse engine and used
coal oil or gasoline in it. He finds
n Ice NJ oi,
Mrs. L. G. Petersen has been rails
ing chickens for year or so, and
last spring operated three incubators.
She sold spring chickens in June for
50 cents each, and up to July rs
she had sold $205 worth. Mrs. Pet
ersen keeps accounts carefully to see
what she makes on the chickens. In
1915 they raised tract of peas and
cut them for hay for the chickens.
They fed them pea hay all winter and
from 100 hens they realized from
30 cents to 81 per day for eggs. Mrs.
Petersen keeps selling off the poultry [
before they pass middle age and has
40 hen on the place years old. AS ,
we'll as chickens Mrs. Petersen
'aises geese and she has 81 at, the /
present time. They live on Shelley II
quite one. II
Mrs. Dorothy Oler, who lives in the I
suburbs of Shelley on the southeast, |
las thorobred White Leghorn chic !
lens that she got from Petulama, T
California. She has some Brown
Ieghorns and Rhode Island Reds as t
veil, and feeds them mostly on t
Wheat, but uses some Of the CONNER t
ial mixed chicken food that is~very s
The hen house is we'll t
the openings being at the a
'eak of the roof and at the base of t
he walls, and she has wire screen I
over the openings to keep a
ut vermin. Mrs. Oler says she is
areful to remove all sick or dead o
hickens, and bury all dead ones. a
he thinks one reason why so many Il
eople lose chickens is that when O
ne dies they leave it around with 81
he others and they come in contact il
nth it. h
s. J. Hammer, of Woodville, has O
perennial vine at his place that is a
good climber and covers the side Il
{ the house on which it climbs. 1t O.
rich green in summer time, and @
he leaves fall with the frost EXPOS