The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-09-08
alfalfa on his place, but expects to
increase the amount.

alfalfa on his place, but expects to
increase the amount.
l.. A. Watts lives north of Aber-
deem and has built a very fine bunga-
low 26x3S feet with a basement. Mr..
Watts settled on a Carey tract a few
years ago and successful farming has
enabled him to build this new house
and make other improvements on
the native land.
Frank Underwood, who lives
southwest of Sterling, raised some
Italian peas that are very fine for
table use when ripe. He tried to
raise some Coffee beans but the sea-
son was too short for them to ma
ture. He raised some seed alfalfa
this year and has about 70 acres in
crops altogether.
B. j. Buff raised 10 acres of COM
mon alfalfa seed, Is acres of grain
and % acres of alfalfa hay.
Frank Nelson has 60 or 70 Duroc
Jersey hogs on his ranch west of
Sterling.
William Claunch, who has a dry
farm 33 miles west of Sterling, SOW
ed four acres of Grimm's alfalfa seed
last May. The ground was loose and
dry. but the seed sprouted and was
in full bloom the later part of Aug
ust. He sowed Sudan grass at the
same time and it was about four feet
high and in flourishing condition the
last of August. Mr.. Claunch lives
in what is known as the Wild Horse
Lake country. Quite a number of
the Claunch families and others have
CLANS there. They raised about
1000 bushels of wheat this year and
have engaged Mr.. Abercrombie to
take this threshing outfit into the
desert to thresh the crop for them.
Ivor Hammervold has 80 acres Of
wheat and the best of it yielded
about 16 bushels per acre. He also
raised some beets, potatoes, corn and
onions.
Mike King. the first settler in the
Wild Horse settlement, raised a fine
crop of wheat in 1915 and left it to
produce a volunteer crop for 1916,
but it all went to mustard and the
wheat crop was a failure. This set
tlement Is about IL miles southwest
of the big butte, and Is miles from
the nearest we'll at Flat Top. Most
of the settlers have homes at Aber-
deem or Sterling and they haul most
of their water from the canal west
OF Sterling, a distance of 80 miles.
They are b%antering one another to
dig a we'll on the desert. The suppo-
sition is that the we'll would have to
be " 400 feet deep.
T. G.. Richards, who lives west of
Sterling, has a very fine Percheron
mare that weighs 1900 pounds and
he wishes to sell her. She is a very
beautiful animal and we'll broke. Her
color is iron-gray and slightly dap
pied.
Anthony Kelley is farming 60
acres four miles west of Sterling.
He has four acres in sugar beets and
raises considerable hay and grain.
c. A. Aldous has five acres of very
fine sugar beets that he raised on
a tract of land where he had been
feeding sheep during the winter. He
also has a patch of very heavy oats
that stood four and a half feet high
and a strip of hand picked Defiance
wheat that he raised for seed. He
raised a quarter of an acre of White
Globe onions for seed and he will
be ready to supply customers in a
short time. Mrs. Aldous has a very
fine flower and vegetable garden. She
sells vegetables to the settlers in
their locality and the flower garden
is a thing of great beauty. They
have a new variety Of potato in their
garden, known as the Pink Willow.
potatoes do no bloom, but they
yield we'll.
T. M. Prudhomme has most of his
farm fenced with woven wire. He
came from Butte and is one of the
successful farmers west Of Sterling.
He bought a Jersey cow three years
ago for $138 and now has a nice
Jersey herd. His principal crops are
hay, grain and alfalfa Seed. Mrs.
rrudhomme raises a very fine garden
and some beautiful flowers, She sells
vegetables to many of the settlers
and has quite an income from her
truck garden.
Henry Aldous has II acres Of
.rimm's alfalfa seed and is prepar-
ing to SOW some more.
w. l.. Giffn has 80 acres south
west of Sterling and has most of it
to Grimm's alfalfa.
James Christensen lives southwest
If Sterling, on what used to be called
Alkali Slough, and he has turned
he tract into a profitable farm.
Where the alkali used to keep him
rom farming he washed it off or set
led it by irrigation and has it in
such a condition that it does not
rouble him any more. He is rails
ng 10 acres of sugar beets, 40 acres
# hay, 6 acres of seed alfalfa and
20 acres Of grain on a rented farm
Mr.. Christensen Is planning
O pillow and grade his yard this fall
nd plant some trees and shrubs and
in the spring. He has been
this off for a number Of years
linking he would wait until he had
'uilt a new house, but he has de-
ided to have these things growing
o be ready for the new house when
/ is built.
J W. Herbert has 480 acres lying
outhwest of Sterling and 1t is nearly
IL in crops. He estimates his grain
rop at $500 bushels. He has 10
cres of alfalfa seed and has sowed
0 acres Of Grimm's alfalfa for seed.
Ie cut 35 acres Of hay and has Is
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