The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-06-09
THE CUB SAYS

G. A. Packham and family came
here from Utah the first OF the year
and bought the Fullmer place west
Of Snake river bridge. Mr.. Packman
cleared of part of the orchard and
chopped up the trees for stove wood
He brought with him a Shetland
stallion and his mate and two thoro.
bred Jersey cows. They shipped in
800 white leghorn chicks from Peta-
luna, California, when they were a
day old, and in three weeks had lost
only five. One Of them died in trans
1t. Mr.. and Mrs. Packham are OF
the younger set of married people
have some children, are delighted
with the country and its people and
are glad they located where they did
ID. D. Wilson, of Riverside, has
barn with hay NOW, but did not
side it up about the top story. When
asked the reason for this he said
the roof keeps the rain. off and the
open sides allow ventilation of the
hay so it is not so apt to heat and
mold. If there is dust in it, the
dust has more chance to blow away
when he is feeding it. He has tried
raising bees as a side line and was
ambitious to increase the number to
100 hives but has never been able
to do it. He loses some of them in
winter and has only a dozen hives
now. fl.3, a nG- .cat
P. P. Fackrell, of Thomas, has re-
moved the front fence at his home
and Is grading the lawn and fence
row preparatory to seeding it anew
and putting up'a woven wire fence.
Mr.. Fackrell has dry farm west
Of Rockford on which he is doing
some farming. .na.- 1,-.
N. P Fackrell, of Thomas, ship
ped In pair Of pure bred Jerseys
In 1907 and ever since that time he
has been selling off the male in
crease and saving the heifers in his
herd. He has dozen now and they
are all profitable boarders. All Of
his buildings are made of lava rock,
the house, milk house, stable, cow
barn, chicken house, sheds and store
house, all built to last as long as
rocks last. He stores stock of
sugar beets for feeding his stock and
uses them as a relish all winter.
He has a three-acre piece of land
that he has sowed to wheat, peas,
timothy, alsike, blue grass and al
falfa for pasturage. II it does well
he will SOW another tract to alter
nate with it.
Forest Bales, of Riverside, is feed
ing bunch of hogs for market and
expects to have them ready about
the first of July. Mr.: Bales has a
set of team scales by his barn and
weighs his hogs occasionally to see
what results he is getting. He could,
II he wished, figure up every day and
compute the gains or losses. He
says he finds great deal of salts
faction in keeping his accounts, and
regards the scales as one of the best
investments on the place. Mr.. Bales
buys some feed of other farmers at
times and uses it up on his own
place. He has been trying to study
out one problem of human nature
that puzzles him. A man with load
of wheat to sell will not take a cent
less at Bales place than he would
haul it to Blackfoot for, and that
is about six miles. Mr.. Bales says
that If he could just hire men to
work on his farm as cheap as they
will haul grain that extra six miles
he would sell off his horses and hire
much of his work done.
F. W. Brooks is farming the N.
Tanner place and has hauled ESQ
loads of manure out on the fields.
There seem to be 100 loads re-
at the old corrals yet that
he had not time to move.
w. H. Scott, of Pingree, is fatten-
ing car load of hogs for the July
This makes the fourth car
load within a year and all except
ing four or five we're raised from one
cow that he started the hog business
with few years ago.
J. A. Anderson has 80 acres north
west of Pingree and has cleared and
Sowed part of it to wheat and alfalfa.
He has had we'll drilled and is in
the market for a pump to lift the |
water so feet.
W. G. Anderson came from Utah
this spring and is improving 100 |
acres northwest of Pingree. He has
1 well on his place 80 feet deep and
S building barn 16x3S feet in size.
He has II acres of oats and alfalfa.
The water for irrigation is to be
'aised from the canal three feet this
7ear by gasoline engine.
Arthur Sandlin, northwest of Pin
gree, has a well II feet deep. He
s dry farming and has just complet-
ID fencing his place.
George A. Line, of Springfield
lrilled in SO acres of Grimms alfalfa
eed this spring and has a good
tand. He was afraid the wind
forms would ruin it and did not go
tut to look at it till the showers
tarted, and then found it all right.