American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-11-30

Mr.. Ripley raises hogs for home
consumption as well as for the mar
ket, preferring the Poland China
breed. Hogs for market shipment are
allowed to range on the alfalfa pas
ture during the summer and are
placed in the fattening pen later in
the season. The fattening ration con-
sists of ground barley for a period Of
three or four weeks and then they are
topped off with soaked wheat, and
shipments to market are made in the
fall or early winter. At present 26
mature hogs and 35 head of young
stock are on the ranch. The hogs
intended for market shipment this fall
have found such rich picking IN the
stubble that only two weeks in the
fattening pen will be required to as
sure their fit condition in accordance
with the rules now in force in the
livestock market. Mr.. Ripley con-
siders that the practice of permitting
shattered grain to go to waste is n
Of the worst enemies of economy he
knows Of, and the practice of letting
HUGS Edllltl IL UP OAG VI CAOhOAA9
best friends. The market quotation
for hogs on the hoof is high now and,
p%aradoxical as it may seem, hogs
shipped to market bring home the ba-
con.
A flock of 40 laying hens adds its
quota to the income of the ranch by
keeping the egg basket filled for mar
keting, besides supplying the house at
all times.
Mr.. Ripley is a native of Tusca-
rawas county. Ohio. and came west to
North Dakota in 1889. In 1890 he
came to Idaho and engaged in ranch
ing neal Malad, and in 1896 was mar
ried to Mary J.. Evans, a native OF
Malad. Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William w. Evans, were pioneers OF
Malad, locating there in 1866. Her
father enjoyed a wide acquaintance in
old Oneida county, being Familiarity
known as Treasurer Evans" having
served four full terms as treasurer of
that county. In 1907 d. P. Ripley and
his family came to Power county,
and Mr.. Ripley and associates bought
Il sawmill in the Moonshine country,
the family living there that summer
and spending the following winter in
Malad. The summer of 1908 was
again spent at the sawmill and in the
winter of 190S-09 was spent in Amer
lean Falls. In the spring of 1909 Mr..
Ripley filed on the homestead now en-
braced in his we'll developed ranch.
and in August of the same year the
family removed to the homestead
All these years the family has resided
in a log cabin. the first three years
on the original homestead, and there
after in the four-roOm cabin erected
by John A. Gibbons, whose homestead
Mr.. Ripley acquired by purchase. A
barn and granary and other structures
have been erected, and at the present
time a seven-room modern farm
dwelling is under construction, rest
ing on a solid concrete foundation
with a full basement built through
out of concrete. Water from a fine
spring will be piped to the house anC
every modern convenience possible
will be installed.
The springs just above the new
, dwelling are recorded and known a.
the Norris Springs" having beel
filed upon in the early cattle rang
days OF the valley Dy d COWBOY HdAhe'
5 Tom Norris. This puncher was il
? the employ of one of the valleys cattl
2 barons of those days named Spark
i who had fenced in the springs an
= the entire bottom lands in the vicin
|, Iity of them. Mr.. Gibbons bought tn
2 right to the springs and when MI
f Ripley bought the Gibbons homestea
it was decreed by order of cOurt tina
: a perpetual right to the springs is at
o tached to the ownership of this quar-
+ ter section.