The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-05-26
THE CUB SAYS

s. r. Kerley, who lives west oil
Rockford has partnership well with
s. r. Knight. 1t is one hundred feet
deep. Mr.. Kerley has five acres OF
barley, ten of wheat, ten of beets,
eleven of rye and one Of potatoes,
He has twenty acres of volunteer
rye that he hopes will make light
crop. Mr.. Kerley says he is not
farming his ground on account of not
having good team.
Thomas Hall is farming west OF
Rockford, thirteen miles from Black
foot, on a dry farm, and also has
beets on an irrigated farm at Rock
ford.
w. J. Thorp has dry farm about
fourteen miles west of Blackfoot, and
has 55 acres of winter wheat. He
is expecting to break out fifty acres
and summer fallow it. He has a well
127 feet deep. Mrs. Thorp has over
three hundred young chicks, and dur
ing the cold weather early in May
she had to shelter 155 of newly hat
ched chicks in the house. She fenced
off a little patch about the piano and
they ranged over it as young chicks
will. Mrs. Thorp has self watering
device for the chicks. She fills glass
jar with water, places dish bottom
upwards over the jar and holds 1t in
place while she inverts jar and dish
together. When the jar is turned
squarely over with the bottom up,
with only little air in it, the vacuum
prevents the water from running out,
and it merely keeps the dish partly
full as it is used up.
Carl Blackburn lives near Mr..
Thorp, and has been quite successful
with his dry garden. Last year he
raised lettuce, corn, radishes, peas,
beets, turnips, carrots beans and Gu
cumbers, a better list than a good
many of the wet farmers produced.
In 1915 Mr.. Blackburn raised some
wheat that demonstrated what can be
done in the basins where water &C
cumulated from melting SHOWS. The
soil was very light colored in the low
part of the basin, and very hard and
porous. He did not expect to even
get the grain sprouted in such water
sogged soil but contrary to his expec-
tations 1t made the heaviest wheat
in the field. Since he has plowed up
about all of the slope draining into
it, he finds that the ground absorbs
the snow water and prevents it from
accommodating much in the low place.
Mr.. Blackburn has been working in
town SO much of each season hereto
fore, that he did not do his blowing
narrowing and rolling at the right
time to get the best results. He finds
that weeds get good start very
quickly in the summer fallOw If they
are not narrowed or otherwise kill
led, and they also rob the ground of
a great amount of moisture When
the weeds are ripened and the wind
rolls them across the country string
of weeds follows the line of travel
taken by each one carried by the
wind. He has decided that in order
to succeed, the dry farmer must re-
main on his land and work to con-
serve moisture and destroy weeds in
the sprouting process. He is blowing
a large amount of land for summer
fallow. il
Albert Johnson, formerly of Aber-
deem, filed on 800 acres between Tab
er and Springfield in 1913, and has
a we'll and windmill at his place. He
has about thirty red polled Durhams
ranging on the desert and watering
at his well, and hopes to increase
the herd. He put in crop for 1915
and lost it all This year he has LOG
acres of spring wheat and IS of whit
er wheat. He has also about forty
acres of oats near Springfield.
l.. G.. Hatcliff lives on the line of
the old stage road south of Mr.. John
son, and is farming quite a tract.
He has we'll and is trying to raise
few trees. +,
Three women Mrs. Schaettle, ].
Marum and G. James has vlaims ON
the same line of the stage road. They
came here from Spokane this spring.
Charles Bramer lives near Spring
field and has SO acres of fall wheat.
Wilbur Lamb lives in the same local
ity and they are preparing to put
in considerable crop when they get
their lands cleared off and in proper
condition for cropping. They have
all Of section eleven and are ambi-
tious to put it all under cultivation,
but not all in a minute.
w. s. Rumble has dry farm about |
six miles west of Thomas, and his |