The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-06-30

He is getting ready for
lowing clover and setting trees for
M. Nelson lives just east. of the
Keeney farm and was one OF the
champion beet raisers last year. He
has a piece of rather sandy land and
IS grading it into perfect condition
Tor watering. He is planning wind
breaks, building sites and comfort
for domestic animals. Mr.. Nelson
has had his own troubles with winds
the past spring and had seven acres
of beets blown out or whitfield to
pieces by the drifting sands. Before
planting the second time he irrigated
thinking to make sure Of prompt ger
and he did. They came up
quickly, just in time to be blown out
and whitfield to pieces again. Then
he drilled in oats and at last &C
counts it was doing well. Mr.. Nelson
hauled $50 loads of manure on his
lands last winter and was expecting
to make a great crop. Oats is his
only prospect now, after all his care
full preparation for beets. He has
graded some of his lands by filling
in three feet deep to get it as he
wants it for all time. He has rs
hogs and is planning to get more
stock about him. He has six acres
of beets that did not kill out.
William A. Park came from MUIR
ray, Utah, and has So acres OF the
old Keeney ranch.
H. G. Taylor lives in the Wicks
district east of Blackfoot and is build
ing a barn 50x60 feet in sizes. He
tore down all the old pole shelters
with dirt roofs and swallows nests.
Mrs. Taylor raises good many
chickens and while the old buildings
were being demolished, and sparrows'
nests with their young were dumped
on the ground every fowl had a
young sparrow in its beak running
away to eat it. Each one. seemed
to think it had the only sparrow on
the farm, and was sneaking away as
fast as possible, thinking the whole
push of chickens was at its heels to
get it. Each one seemed surprised
when it found itself all alone where
it could swallow the youngster at
leisure. The name of Happy Hoggery
which we gave to the farm last fall
seemed to have changed to Happy
Chickery. Mr.. Taylor has so or 70
hogs that he is fattening and will be
ready for market about the first of
July.
William Kinds bought the Larson
place near the Wicks school and had
two paintings of beets des Dyed by
the wind and frost. He sowed it to
oats and alfalfa.
William Walker, east of Wapello,
had two paintings of beets destroyed
and at last accounts had not yet SOW
ed it to anything else. He was ad-
vised to water it and drill in OATS
Ivan l., Tanner. east of the sugar
factory, has SO acres and it was roll
ing before he got it. He has been
grading it and has nearly half Of it
in good condition and it is his pur-
pose to finish the job.
Pete Larson has 70 acres of the
Sam Lloyd farm and is grading it.
He fed $50 head of cattle on it last
winter and used up 400 tons of hay
and 1900 tons of beet pulp. Mr.
Larson advocates keeping some pure
bred stock on the place and using 1t
as means of consuming all he raises
on his farm.
John Thornton, who lives west OF
| the Lloyd ranch, is raising some OF
the tender crops and planned to SOW
quarter of an acre of brown beans
on the. seventeenth of June. Mr.
Thornton is very much interested in
our farm page and thinks we have
doubled the value of The Idaho Re-
publican in the past year.
Mrs.. Willard r. Christensen has
rented her farm to Nephi Miller and
she will spend the rest of the sum
mer or part of it in Utah. Mr.. Chris,
Jensen is away on a mission and she
found farming uphill business for 9
woman.
Nephi Christensen fed some cattle
during the winter and Is now engaged
in supplying herds for the butchers
He buys cattle and assemblies them al
his farm for delivery or shipment.
e. J. Harbaugh lives on the east
side Of the tracks just above the
Nielsen farm. He came here from
Nebraska and bought the e. c. Frieb
ley farm. He cleaned up the grove
thinned out the shade trees, made il
into stove wood, graded some of the
land, is working the place over al
fast as he can and expects to live ant
die there. He is good farmer ant
has the products to show for 1t.
George Cobbley has 81 acres ant
lis very much in favor of thoro cult
walton. He proceeds beets with pc
tatoes and says there is great dea
more satisfaction in five acres of 20
ton sugar beets than in 10 acres O
lotion beets. He has his land al
we'll graded and is planning to farm
lit we'll and have stock to consume
1t ALL He is the secretary of thu
Divide Ditch company, and the Cente
Branch ditch, is road overseer ant
precinct committeeman and was ask
ed by a good many people to be
candidate for commissioner. HI
baked at that and said 1t is plain t.
him that a man cannot run a farm
successfully and dabble in polite
and these other things.
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