The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-05-18
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Mrs. James Fielding is much i'm
lpressed with. the advantage of having
tractors on the farm to take the place
of horses. She says the tractor pulls
the plow and harrows and can be
made to pull the drills also, and the
ground will not need to be trampec
by the horses after blowing and har'
rowing. 1t will not be necessary tc
work all winter taking car of horses
and not be necessary to devote sc
much of the farm to raising hay and
grain to feed the horses. All the
land so used for the support OF
horses can, under the tractor man.
agement, be devoted to raising crops
that will not be consumed in the op-
Grafton of the farm.
J, G. Gettrup had 200 sacks of po'
tatoes to sell about the tenth of May
He is planting 80 acres of potatoes,
40 acres of wheat and has about 40
acres in hay.
William Miller is planting 10. acres
of potatoes and II acres OF wheat.
The Idaho canal and the Taylor
& Cedar Hollow canal will be in need
of men and teams until about the
last Of May. They are offering Is
cents per hour for a man and two
horses. Parties interested should ad-
dress B. B. Stringham or H. A. Neil
son, Shelley, Idaho, Route l.
John T. Clark is sowing As acres
of grain and putting in 80 acres of
potatoes. He has 35 acres in hay
Mr.. Clark has about 40 hogs. He
says he never feeds his hogs any
grain but has the farm fenced of
into different fields and always has
pasture for them. Mr.. Clark is quite
a believer in the future OF the motor
driven vehicles for transportation as
we'll as field work. He says that even
tho they do not build tractors that
will be more successful than those
now in use he believes it would be
practicable to use the additions on
the touring cars for drawing plows
and doing carious kinds of work on
the farm. He Is expecting to see the
horses rapidly disappear from the
farms of this county. Mr.. Clark has
a large stable with a feed rack built
in. He can unload about n ton OF
hay into the manger at a time, FOR
the bottom of the feed rack consti-
tutes the top of the manger. He says
it constitutes a good ventilator In
warm weather and in cold weather
they keep it we'll enough filled so
that the hay prevents the passage OF
the wind and thus keeps the stable
warm. He has a large feeding yard
enclosed with a tight board fence
about seven feet high. Mr.. Clark
has considerable pasture ground
sown to orchard grass and alslke.
He has 5 acres of this on which he
expects to support 40 hogs, 4 or D
cows and 4 horses.
Christian Anderson is n of the
older settlers at Jameston. He re-
ports that he has hauled 100 loads
of manure on seven acres that he IS
planting to beets. He is planting ~
acres to beets, 80 to wheat, 20 to
potatoes and has Is acres in hay.
Nels Nelson has a sandy farm and
after blowing he lets it lie in hopes
that it will get clody by the drying
process. The Jumps, he says, will
from a slight wind break and keep
the sand from drifting. Mr.. Nelson
is quite a student of potatoes and
oats in their relation to irrigation.
He says he plants the sloping land
to potatoes and the land that does
not drain SO we'll is planted to oats.
The water flows from the potato
field onto the oats and keeps them
wet for days at, a time, making a
good oat crop. He thinks oats stand
more flooding than any other crop.
He raised 25 acres of potatoes last
year on the James Christensen land
and will plant So acres this year.
He says potatoes are the best crop
and that he made some money from
them for himself last year and for
his landlord too.
John w. Cook, of Jameston, has
built an addition to his house and
some of his land. He has
been making use Of his gold mine"
to enrich the land
w. B. Jones. of Goshen, improved
Two farms in Oklahoma and got them
to bearing much fruit and crops and
then sold out. He is now in his third
,oor noshan and Ia making a nice