American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-11-02

VIM. Allard, whose ranch home is
one mile north of Arbon, is busy at
the ground he intends to pillow
in the spring for wheat seeding. This
makes the ground easier to
pillow in the spring and is a great aid
in the conservation of moisture. Mr..
is convinced that spring plow-
ing and seeding will prove the quick
and most efficient means of get
ting rid of Jim Hill mustard. Fall
blowing, of course. must be praCticed
to some extent. but the cultivation of
this land before seeding in the spring
will put it in the same class with
spring plowed land. Mr.. Allard m
from Iowa, a state where every farm
er has shade trees. He followed the
example of the Iowa men and set out
some poplar trees. About the first
thing the visitor to this ranch will
note is the symmetrical appearance
of these trees, now about eight feet
high. This is explained blythe fact
that the snow drifts last winter we're
Sc deep in the yards of this ranch that
the horses walked over the fences and
ate off the tops of the shade trees
wherever they peeked u of the snow.
A great deal of wheat from the
northern part of Oneida county is be
ing hauled to platforms in Arbon val
ley. It is reported that the road to
Malad over Jensen pass is almost i'm
p%assable.
Mrs. +. A. Logan, residing one and
a half miles southwest of Arbon, has
raised some fine pumpkins in her gar
den this year. The largest specimen
raised is IA inches high and measures
AZ inches in circumference. This
pumpkin was not irrigated, but on
siderable cultivation of the soil in the
garden was practiced. Besides sup
plying the needs of the family table
and giving some to neighbors, Mrs.
Logan put up Is gallons of string
beans. Plenty of goOseberries, cur
rants and rhubarb vas raised in the
garden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Doc Pruitt, whose
homestead is located above Rattle
snake creek, will this winter reside on
a ranch a mile southwest of Pauline,
in order to give the children better
school facilities. On the homestead
Mrs. Pruitt last spring planted a nice
little garden, but none of the vege-
tables came up until after the Sep
TENDER rains. Potatoes, however,
gave a good yield. III the spring of
1916 lettuce was planted and it failed
tc grow, but much to the surprise of
Mrs. Pruitt it came up and gave a fine
yield last spring after having been
buried under a deep snow drift all last
winter. Mrs. Pruitt has decided to call
that particular variety the lazy let
tuce.'
]. R. Dawson, a rancher residing
two miles southwest of Pauline, had
in about a half acre of Idaho Rural
and Red Willow potatoes, which will
yield him more than 80 bushels. They
we're raised on dry farm land and
have grown to extraordinary size de-
spite the fact that they received nc
cultivation except two h%arrOwings
after planting. Some sweet corn
planted in the garden was growing
nicely and gave every promise of ma
turing when some COWS discovered
and devoured it.
Heber Wood and family reside il
a typical pioneer log cabin on theil
ranch about five miles southeast o.
ArbOn. This cabin was built abOu
Is years ago by John EckstrOm. Brig
ham Mansfield was the first man t.
squat on the land, and Mr.. EckstrOn
gave him a cayuse to vacate. Thu
new squatter filed on the land as sOOl
as it was surveyed and began to cul
{ tivate it. The second year of his resi-
dence on the land he went to the Bea.
? river country-nOrthern Utah ant
was drowned. His widow r%elinquishe
3 to Francillo Durfey. and four year
2 ago Mr.. Wood purchased the farm
He has just completed a fine ney
frame barn, 36x4O feet, one of tn
best in this section of the county.
y Mrs. Farley Bailey. residing tire
miles southeast of Arbon, is milkin
; ten graded Durham COWS and market
ing the cream. and during the summe
! the cream check averaged from $4
4 to so each month. Ever since filing o