The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-29

the others who went from here ana
received the following information:
John Ramsour did well for few
years and sold out and went back
to Missouri.
j. R. Allgood was aggressive In
his farming operations, but he bought
an Oil-puller (traction engine) and
lost heavily both in the cost of oper-
alton and delay in getting his blowing
done late. 1t was not success, ana
he finally had to abandon it and go
back t hrsees. He made great deaf
t money but this venture took it all
for good while.
Mr.. Naylor is doing very well, and
his son, he did not know which one,
but thought 1t was the oldest one,
had an illness that was remarkable
and of course was great loss finan-
cially. 1t was some unusual malady
and he went east to be treated by
specialists. 1t baffled them all for a
good Will. and he continued to de-
cline until they nearly lost all hope.
Finally his wife saved him with her
own blood transferred to his veins
to give him new strength. He rail-
lied and finally recovered and came
home looking like new man.
Jabus Nowlin and sons got into q
district where farming was not SO
good. The soil and climate did not
seem quite 80 good, and in the heavy
expense of getting the farms sub
dued and with two or three poor
crops. Jabus was about ruined. His
sons remained and are doing better
now.
w. d. Trego has been very success
full as farmer and shipper. He
has a large tract, probably twelve
or fifteen hundred acres, perhaps
more. He had remarkable crop
in 1915, and almost as good in 1916.
I remember of his buying a carload
of binders at once, and he got the
Cushman gasoline engines to attach
to all of them to supplement the horse
power. The grain was SO heavy and
so tangled it was impossible to cut
and bind it in the usual way be-
cause the machine would choke down.
The Cushman engine attaches right
under the drivers seat and drives
the sickle, elevator and binding parts
but has no connection with the speed
of the transport. The team of two
horses just walks along drawing the
machine and the engine runs at a |
high speed, cutting and binding. The
speed of the engine is fixed, but the |
speed of the team Is slower in the
heavy grain than in lighter stretches. |
Lots of these engines were shipped |
in from the factory by express, at
tached 20 the machines In an hour or
two and the biggest crops in history
were saved.
The booze" question is losing
ground in Alberta. The providence
Of Alberta is dry, under law that
gives a man the right to possess
liquor but makes him responsible for
The way he uses it. II he keeps it
t on his own place, no attention is
paid to him in the use of it, but If
re steps over the boundary line of
lis farm in a drunken condition, he
IAN be punished and the liquor con-
iscated. The punishment for the
second offense is more severe than
or the nrsr. People who want liquor
IAN get it by sending away for 1t.
They can ship it from Saskatchewan
md Manitoba, and take it home,
md the responsibility begins.
Mr.. Edwards settled at Eagle Rock,
low Idaho Falls. in 1883, and re-
NAMED there until 1903. He came
Up from Ogden on the narrow-guage
abroad when it took a days run toll
let to Pocatello, and then they stayed
'ver night and started out again in
he morning to go on up the line. He
mentioned that once when he haG
ute lot Of hogs, somebody who
ad city lots in what Is now the CEN
er Of the residence district of Idaho
'alls, offered him forty lots for forty
ogs, and he declined to swap. He
idn't want any drifting sand with
age brush and cactus to pay taxes
n in a flag station town.
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