The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-06-30
The CUB SAYS

Eskel Eskensen bought the ]. s.
Wright place between the rivers four
miles below Blackfoot. He, has So
acres, all well graded. He has
large deep pond for his ducks and
geese, and raises some good stock.
ne has twin heifer calves Of the
Durham stock, some fine colts and an
auto with self starter.
Matt Hancock has fine farm and
his sons are conducting the work on
1t. They raise some good sugar beets
and other things; they just can't help
yielding well his farm is so well sit
uated.
C. G.. Olene came here recently
from Murray, Utah, and has so acres
on the river banks where the county
has been rip-rapping about six miles
below town between the rivers.
Dan Olmstead, Jr., has taken dry
farm 35 miles east of Idaho Falls
and is going there soon to begin OPP.
erations.
w, e. Hansen has 100 acres be-
tween the rivers and has 25 acres OF
it in sugar beets.
]. l. Stewart and sons planted 40
acres of beets and five acres OF them
blew out of the ground. They have
a very fine stand of wheat and have
enlarged their agricultural dominions
the past two seasons by clearing on
60 acres of sage. They watered their
alfalfa early and the freezing did not
damage it much. They get light
~
that were not watered early yield
practically none.
r. A. Thompson and son, Charlie,
have fine farm bordering the Black
foot river about six miles below
Blackfoot, and have been giving con-
siderable attention to hogs. Last
year they made some money on field
peas and are raising Is acres Of the
Canadian field peas this year. The
yield last year was Is bushels, and
they think they can raise it to 40 this
year. The 1915 crop sold at 1925
per hundred pounds, and the hogs
gathered much feed from the field
after the harvest. Comparing field
peas with sugar beets, the relative
amounts of work required represent
the two extrmes and match we'll to-
gether. The Thompson farm looks
like money and the family always
seem happy, We asked all about the
hog management and learned tina
they give them plenty of alfalfa IL
feeders all winter, and last winter
they gave them all the sugar beet
they wanted. A great deal of chop
ped grain in connection with thu
beets is considered good but expen
sive. They eat great quantities O
the beets and alfalfa if given tina
alone. Thompsons have some doubt!
whether one should try to fill bunch
of hogs with the beet diet. 1t take
too many beets. Still they had Al
shotes nine months old that were
round and fat and were being guess
ed at 22o pounds each. Some of then
won prizes at the fair last fall fol
being the finest filters of newborn
pigs. They run on the fields all fall
ate hay and beets all winter and hat
chopped grain all spring. On ho
days they bathed in the ditch, but The
past spring did not require man!
baths. Their brood sows have hat
some grain all winter, but when thu
pigs are weaned and the sows ar
pred again they are left on alfalf;
pasture for several weeks. TIT
Thompsons are working to test gu
potatoes to learn just what varieties
will mature and be ready for marke
earliest, and what ones will stant
storing the longest, the idea being t.
have spuds to sell when others hay
not; to have better old spud TO
sale in June than the imported ney
spud so they can pocket the expires
charges from warmer states. To hav
plenty of new potatoes well mature
in late summer when most OF tn
new potatoes are yet sappy and tn
skin slipping. Not merely few sack
of them to sell, but enough to brin
the price of an Oldsmobile and more
The world is big-full grown-an
il Thompsons plant their whole farr
to early spuds there will still b
room in the market for other people
spuds if they are good enough an
early enough or late enough, so yo
are at liberty to cop these ideas
they are attractive to you. No paten
rights, thank you.
A. o. Allen, of Wapello, says h
has made quite a study of tn
spring growth of alfalfa and find
that when once it is frozen it shout
be cut off or pastured; that the orig
nal stalks do not grow again an
after loss of time new shoots com
out from near the ground and thes
make the growth, altho the olde