The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-09-01
THE CUB SAYS

A. A. Bingham, who lives west OF
Groveland, is building a new cement
milk house.
Philip Dance, of Thomas, has 25
acres of very fine sugar beets that
are almost a perfect stand. Mr.. Dance
thinned the beets to IA inches apart
and has every prospect OF a heavy
tonnage. He also had 80 acres of
alfalfa that yielded a heavy crop.
William McCarty has his place
rented to J. c. Parks, who owns a
dry farm three miles west of Rock
ford. Mr.. McCarty is of the few
landlords that speaks we'll of his
tenant. He says Mr.. Parks is a very
good farmer and a good man to deal
with and that he is handling the
farm very satisfactorily. Mr.. Parks
has 40 acres in potatoes and alfalfa
on the place and is farming so acres
of his own. Mr.. McCarty has just
installed a new Samson windmill and
galvanized iron tank.
S. J. Faulconer has a dry farm
west of Rockford and raised 40 acres
of good quality wheat that yielded
seven bushels per acre.
C. M. Jensen has been on the dry
farm at Rockford for seven years.
He has a we'll II feet deep, a wind
mill and a cement water tank 5x1Ox
2b feet. Mr.. Jensen is raising a
garden and some shrubs and trees
with the water that he drains from
the water tank. He drains the water
off when it becomes heated by the
sun shining upon the tank. Mr.. Jen-
sen was raising hogs last year when
the price of wheat went up and 1t
nearly put him out of business to
finish out the hogs. He installed a
set of team scales to weigh the feed
and hogs, by doing this he kept bet
ter track of the business, and the
gain on the porkers. Mr.. Jensen is
not in the hog business at present.
He has decided to wait until he gets
to understand the market conditions
better. Mr.. Jensen raised 1856 acres
of dry farm wheat this year, and
Mrs. Jensen raises considerable poul-
try, including some nice turkeys.
William Sjostrom, of Rockford, is
one of the prosperous bachelors OF
that community. He has 80 acres
of sugar beets, 40 acres of alfalfa,
20 acres of grain, some nice mares
and colts, some shotes and a Ford
car.
Tobias Furniss, of Rockford, has
IL acres of alfalfa, II acres OF wheat
and five acres of beets that are not
very good stand.
William E. Brown has 80 acres
west of Rockford. He raised II
acres or very fine alfalfa hay and
seven acres of sugar beets. He has
been there two years and is clearing
and grading the farm as fast as he
can.
William ,McCarty, Jr., is making
Improvements on the farm which he
purchased a few years ago from John
w. Jones. He has some good build
.ngs erected and has rotated the
crops and fortified the soil until 1t
g in a high stage of cultivation. All
If Mr.. McCarty's crops are far above
he average. He has 35 acres of
good sugar beets, 80 acres of hay and
i've acres of potatoes. He has a
gasoline pumping outfit to supply
water for the stock and house use.
Mr.. McCarty has been handling most
the farm work himself, but has
lecided that a nan with that amount
beets should contract the hand
work and give himself more time to
leep the weeds down about the place.
lie has been raising Is to 20 tons of
,eets per acre in previous years, but
ropes for at least a cotton crop this
ear. Mr.. McCarty fertilizes a field
very two years and plans to do the
all blowing on the part he is not
ertilizing. Where he hauls out the
ertilizer in the spring is where he
Loes the spring blowing. Mr.. Nc
,arty has some very fine Durham
ows and calves, and a very fine male,
which he says would take first prize
t the fair in competition with any
hing else in the county, but he had
he misfortune to lose the records
hat would be necessary to display,
{ the animal were placed in competi-
ion. He also has about 100 head
# hogs. Mr.. McCarty intends to
ut his children in the Blackfoot
and has purchased the George