The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-20

with many of her neighbors. Mr.
Kasel has three or four cisterns on
the place and hopes to drill a well
this fall. His neighbor. Mr.. Deeds,
planned to drill well this fall but
changed his mind and decided to use
the money to pillow 100 acres of land
to SOW to seed. Mr.. Kessel says that
men who have no well and no cistern
should either drill a we'll or make a
cistern which he can fill with snow
water or run water into when the
snow melts in the spring. Mr.. Kesel
filled a cistern by letting the water
flow into it when the snow went off
in the spring, and he says the water
did not become stale or blackish. He
thinks the use of the cistern for the
season is worth all it costs. He is
treating square acre of ground by
summer following and will drill to
Grimms alfalfa. He will plant it in
rows three feet apart and will Gull
tivate them and see if he can raise
seed successfully on the desert. He
has a few white potatoes called
Earliest of ALP and he is develop
ing as large supply of seed as he
can.
D. A. Morgan has a dry farm 4
miles south of Taber and has 200
acres plowed and is seeding it. He
is also seeding 100 acres on the Coat
ney place.
The cost is small and the satisfac-
ton large; using printed stationery
with ones name and address.
l. Monger lives on dry farm next
to Mr.. Morgan and is seeding 100
acres to wheat
Albert Johnson, lives six or seven
miles south of Taber on the Spring
field road and has deep well. About
the middle of August the pipes be-
came disconnected deep down in the
we'll and for about six weeks he had
no water from that source. He took
his stock to a farm near Aberdeen
and put them in pasture there.
w. H. Hubble lives on a dry farm
8 miles south of Taber, miles north
of Springfield, and 9 miles west of
Rockford. He is away working most
of the time this fall, and Mrs. Hub
BILE traps coyotes for pass time. When
the writer was there, early In Octob-
err, she had secured three coyotes in
four days. The fur and the bounty
together make coyote worth 81 or
So.
Frank Bradford has farm north
of Springfield and has 100 acres in
cultivation. He is seeding 10 acres
to alfalfa to raise seed in 1917. Part
of it is in common alfalfa and part
in Grimm's. Mrs. Bradford and the
children returned recently from
5 weeks visit at the old home at
Spanish Fork.
Frank Judge, Grover Paul, Ed.
Young and James Beebe, prominent
farmers of the Springfield country,
took an auto trip to Lost river, early
in October to hunt deer.
J. H. Claypool lives between
Springfield and Sterling. He has SO
acres that he is seeding to fall wheat.
He is preparing a piece of land for
setting an orchard.
G.. A. Line, who lines north OF
Sterling, is building an S-room dwell
ing with five closets. ell has just
completed large modern seed house.
Taylor brothers, of Blackfoot, have
the contract for the carpenter work.
Mr.. Line has also let a contract to
them for a barn so feet square with
hay NOW. Mr.. Line threshed $4,000
pounds of Grimm's alfalfa this year,
and says that his seed crop and hay
crop combined will bring him about
$4,000 from quarter section. He
selected the best acre of alfalfa, got
some witnesses to look after the mea-
surfing, harvested the seed crop and
threshed it, weighed it up and sold
1t for 1903. The expense on a crop
of seed alfalfa is slight as compared
with sugar beets and potatoes as well
as several other crops.
The people of Sterling have a petit
ton filed with the postal department
for a rural free delivery in that
country, supplying 1875 boxes with
mail. The people down there have
good joke on one of the farmers,
who shipped in lot of woven wire
fencing from a mail order house to
fence his farm. Before sending away
the order the man got prices from
his local dealer, who not only show
ed him what the cost would be de-
livered at the farmers wagon, but
took him out to the warehouse and
showed him the wire. 1t was what
the farmer wanted and looked just
like the picture of what he had seen
in the catalogue. The dealer did not
argue the question with him and the
farmer sent away his good money
for the wire. In due time the ship
ment came with big freight bill
attached and G. o. D. collection
as we'll. A letter from the shipper
stated that wire had gone up con-
siderable since the catalogue was
printed and that he could pay the
rest of the bill to the railroad COM
pany at Sterling, Idaho. The farmer
found out that after he had paid the
freight bill and the G. o. D. bill
it would make the wire cost IL cents