The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-09-22

paid for it on the installment plan.
All he had to start with was team
of cayuses, but he has nearly all OF
the 80 acres paid for. He has done
a great deal of grading so that the
land can be watered. One tract was
so sandy that crops always blew out,
but someone told him to SOW it to
alfalfa and put ON thin coat of
straw, which he did. The result was
that he got a fine stand OF hay and
it has yielded heavy crop every
year. He has 10 acres of sandy hills
graded down to level farming land
and is getting the place in condition
as fast as possible. Mr.. Olson thinks
that what has generally been regard
ed as waste land, in this valley, can
be put to some good use If the right
crop is planted.
E. F. Miller came to the Goshen
country in 1913 and leased farm.
He had one cow and seven months
old heifer that were of the Jersey
strain. He has 10 cows at the pres
ent time and during this period has
sold 2 cows and about 10 steers. His
little herd is the source Of a good in
come for him and he hopes to make
them pay for home.
C. w. Bailey, who lives southwest
of Shelley, has built an eight room
house and a barn this summer. The
house is we'll finished inside and out,
and they are planning to put in a
water system and bath later on.
The barn is 24x24 feet with hay
NOW and track. 1t has good floors
and plenty of stalls. Mr.. Bailey
stacks the hay at the end of the barn
so that when the hay NOW Is empty
he can move part of the stack inside.
Peter Corgatelli has rs acres of
potatoes on his farm, south OF Shell
ley. The soil in that locality is from
IL to Is feet deep, but very rolling,
and the farmers have to do a great
deal of grading. One year Mr.. Cor
gatelli raised 4 acres of cabbage
that brought him 5000 per acre. He
says raising cabbage is something
of a gamble for the market is good at
times and other years there is scarce
ly an ysale for them at all. Mr.. Cor
gatelli thinks a man can make money
raising cabbage If he can get IS cents
per hundred for it. Mr.. Corgatelli
says when he wishes to pillow up an
alfalfa meadow he waters and then
plows it and disks it both ways and
he has it subdued.
R. H. Boiling, who lives south OF
Shelley has or 10 acres of beets
that he thinks will yield about II
tons per acre.
]. H. Young. who lives at Monroe
switch, has 10 acres of beets, 10
acres of potatoes, and is raising con-
siderable alfalfa in order to get the
land in condition to raise sugar beets
Mr.. Young is building barn 16x4O
feet in size.
Amassa Croney, who lives at Ba-
salt. had the misfortune of losing
his right arm by gun shot a few
years ago, He is % years of age
is married and works for wages. The
people say he can do as much work
with his left arm as most men dc
with both. He uses the fork and
shovel very dexteriously and at beet
topping time he straps a board tC
his leg and has the topping knife
attached to the board. Instead OF
swinging the knife against the beet
he swings the beet against the knife
and it is said that he can top beets
as quickly as anyone. The neighbors
speak of Mr.. Croney having plowed
field using eight horses and some
of them being quite wild. There is
no work that Mr.. Croney is afraid to
undertake. He plays cornet and
is a member of the local orchestra
that plays for the dances.
L D. Cox, who lives southwest OF
Shelley, has a very fine garden with
lot of Hubbard squash in it. Mr..
Cox uses galvanized iron tanks for
storing his grain, each tank holds
about 1000 bushels and cost about
$14O each. When they are empty
he hauls them to any part Of the
field where he desires to thresh. He
considers these iron bins safer than
wooden granary on account OF fire.
Mr.. Cox is building barn 35x9O feet
with a lean-to on each side 2Ox9O
feet. The lean-to is for the use of
stock and the other part for storing
hay. He is building his stalls IA
feet wide. The plan being to have
every stall serve a span of horses.
Clarence Robinson is farming l..
C. Cox's lower place on the east side
of the railroad this year.
G. A. Davis bought 80 acres, three
miles southwest of Shelley in 1909,
on the instalment plan. He had a
family to raise and educate and the
land was rolling and required a great
deal of grading. Mr.. Davis planned
the affair so all the crops might be
consumed by some kind of stock, and
he has kept to that plan ever since
and has graded as much land each
year as he could. He had educated
his children and given some Of them
the Advantages of school away from
home The prospects are that all will
pay out on the farm. He raises
enough beets to make payments on
the land and makes living on the
other crops. Mr.. Davis has 20 acres
of beets this year.
Earl G.. Frandsen, who lives near
Monroe, has acres Of cabbage. He
planted the seed the first Of June