The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-07-16

great deal of studying. Mr.. Funk
has 42O acres of wheat, 40 acres in
pasture and 420 acres in summer
fallow. He pastures his stock on
the summer fallow as long as there
Is feed on it and then puts them
into the 40-acre pasture. He is in
terested in. tractors and intends to
buy one for blowing in the big fields
as soon as he thinks it is safe.
Mathew Macher lives equally dis.
tant between Aberdeen and American
Falls. He is clearing and plowine
land and reports having 1870 acres
of wheat and 80 acres in summer
fallow
Fred Westerbrook came from Iowa
5 years ago and reports 105 acres
of winter wheat, so, acres of spring
wheat and 100 acres in summer fall
low.
Fred Funk lives Is miles north
west of American Falls and Is miles
southwest of Aberdeen. He has been
on his place 8 years and in that time
has set out an orchard consisting of
200 fruit trees, which have never
been watered He has we'll 373
feet deep. Mr.. Funk has 100 acres
of wheat and 100 acres in summer
fallow. He resolved part of his
wheat last spring and thinks the rea-
son for poor stand was due to the
seed being drilled too deep. Last
year he raised an average of 20
bushels per acre. Mr.. Funk built a
nice house in 1913 and a barn in
1910-12.
Fred Sibel has a dry farm, but
he has no stock on his place. He
hires his blowing done and has only
small amount in crop. He is help
ing to break the coal famine by bal
ing the barn yard manure and dry
ing it and stacking it up in little
blocks for the winters use. He SAYS
he has used it this way in Dakota
and finds it holds the heat a long
time. He has 60 acres of wheat and
20 acres of summer fallow.
Ed. M. Jackson lives in the south
west corner of Bingham county and
has 100 acres of wheat and 80 acres
in summer fallow. He has been
there 8 years and has just bought
an adjoining farm of 80 acres for
which he paid $4,000. 1t is all fenc-
ed and cleared and has a pretty good
house on. Mr.. Jackson has been do
ing some experimental farming and
before coming here he had somewhat
of dry farm experience in the state
of Washington. He reports that in
Washington the man who allowed
weeds to grow on his place would re-
ceive notice to cut them in season
or the county would cut them at his
expense. That enabled the settlers
to nearly obliterate the weeds. Mr..
Jackson has been trying alfalfa and
sweet clover on his dry farm and he
says alfalfa is better than sweet
clover. He has been trying alfalfa
seed on some punches that grew
promiscuously about the yard and
garden and he found the punches
that stood by the path, where he
tied string around them to keep
them out of his way, produced
much heavier crop of seed than
similar plants that were not tied up.
He studied the question to try to
find out what was the reason and
became convinced that the blossoms
that beat against something, by being
blown in the wind, were blighted and
by protecting them from this all the
blossoms produced a great deal more.
Mr.. Jackson says that II people will
plant and cultivate alfalfa like they
do corn he is sure they can raise
heavy crops of seed. He thinks any
thing that can be done to keep it
from being lashed in the wind will
increase the yield Of seed. Mr.. Jack
son says the farmer who plows his
land after it gets dry in the spring
will injure the soil and that it will
reduce the yield for several years to
come. He says he thinks it harms
the land almost as much to pillow it |
200 dry as to plow it too wet. He |
has a fine crop Of wheat and thinks |
It is better than most of the wheat |
IN that settlement due to the fact |
hat he plowed and worked his
ground when it was moist and mel
ow. When Mr.. Jackson came to this
county he had to borrow money to
Jay the filing fee on his claim and
since that time he has been making
money steadily. He says there is no
'eason for a man to have to work
10 hard in order to make a success,
tut just to plan his work carefully
md pillow and seed early and to make
! thoro job Of it.
Martin Johannsen came from Aus
in, Minnesota, this spring and
fought 240 acres of land at $35 per
ere. 1t was all cleared and fenced,
lad we'll and wind mill and a very
,ood house. He is well pleased with
he purchase and thinks he got bar
Jain.
c. A. Neuman lives 7 miles south
4 Aberdeen and bought 80 acres of
and at $85 per acre. Sixty-five acres
vas under cultivation and the land
J little rough. There was a house,
arm, we'll and wind mill, orchard
nd water right on the place, and it