The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-08-18
FARMS DEPARTMENT
The Republican Pays ST. Each Week for an Idea
on What You Have Planned to Increase
Your Crop Yield or Make Home More
Beautiful---City Lot or Farm

all terminate and what did did not
mature. Mr.. Edmonson has been
working In Pocatello most of the
summer and his wife has been hold
ing down the claim. They will seed
the land again for a 1917 crop and
Mrs. Edmonson reports that If it fails
she will be ready to quit the claim.
j. r. Mcintyre has a claim in the
suburbs" just south of Cerro Grande
and Is raising some wheat this year.
He is planning to put out quite a
large crop for 1917. Mr.. Mcintyre
has a span of two-year-old mules to
sell. They weigh 100 pounds each
and are well broken.
Kenneth Mclaughlin will send 60
acres for 1917. Mr.. Mclaughlin
came from Missouri last spring and
has built a good house and is very
comfortably situated on the desert.
Dustin Wakefield came from Mis-
souri, one year ago and has built a
good house on his claim north Of
Cerro Grande, He has it we'll fur
nished and Is we'll supplied with ma
terials to handle his farm. His
brother has an adjoining claim and
is also comfortably situated with his
family. He has a big S~tudebaker
six and he and his neighbors have
been removing the rocks from the
roads SO they can eiasly get to the
state highway and other places about
the country. His sister, Mrs. T. ].
Lewis, a bride of a few months and
her husband are near them. The
Lewis home is fitted up with good
furniture and a fine piano. A lady
friend of hers from Sedalia, Missouri,
is spending the summer with her.
Most of the people in the community
came from Sedalia, Missouri, and
they are just now preparing to estab-
lish a school district here. The Wake
fields have purchased the mercantile
business of Niece & F1ahrity at Cerro
Grande and are erecting a new build
The old store building and post
office to be used for the public school.
John Shaffer is living his third year
his dry farm at Furey about ten
miles east of the big butte near the
Mackay railroad. He raised Is acres
of rye this year that was sowed Sep
TENDER 10, 1915. He harvested a
very satisfactory crop and also rails
ed some in spring blowing which he
thinks went about Is bushels per
acre. Mr.. Shaffer came here from
Dakota.
Companions of the Desert
Joseph Hidden was in from Tilden
burn, Monday, and said he had a
queer companion at his home in the
desert last week. He is the man
we told about two weeks ago, who
took up a dry farm in the basin,
near the center of the desert and
hauled water 20 miles for stock and
domestic use. He has a cistern where
he stores snow water in the spring
and is still using out of that for
He waters the horses in an
old tub at the cistern.
One nj hit his dog raised a great
commotion and Mr.. Tilden got up and
out to see what was doing.
The dog had been fighting with some
thing but Mr.. Tilden did not find
put what 1t was. In the morning
while he was getting breakfast a half
grown coyote came out from under
The bed. 1t was a sociable cub and
Mr.. Tilden offered it something to
eat. The cub snapped it from his
1and cautiously, but each time SEEM
I'd disappointed. 1t did not eat with
! relish. Finally Mr.. Tilden set a
pan of water on the floor and the
coyote drank it greedily. He drank
md rested and rested and drank till
lis little "tummey'' stuck out like a
Dad and then he hurried out across
he claim and took to the great sage
)lain.
Ordinarily Mr.. Tilden kills coyotes
,ut this little fellow appealed to him
that he felt a c~omradeship for it
md when he saw how gladly it slaked
is thirst from the pan, he did not
lave the nerve to do it any harm. /
One day while Mr.. Tilden vas away
rom home and the boy vas there, a
came up and got into a fight
With their pup. The badger wanted
n oot iptn tho fy,h Of tho oicfarp