The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-15

Sam Heaney lives west of Sterling
in the Grandview community, and IL
building a new house. He has spent
part of each season on the land fol
several years. He has a wife and
three children. He has grain and
potatoes and thirty-seven acres OF
hay that is looking fine.
Fred Wahlen has built good barn
at Grandview and finished the front
of it for a house. He is living in il
temporarily and has the excavatine
finished for the basement of the
future home. The plastered rooms
of the barn will be used for granar-
les after the new house is done. Mr..
Wahlen has been setting some trees
and shrubs this spring, including 100
poplars.
w. C. Hill is farming the old Tho
mas Richards place, and has one
acre of potatoes, six of oats, seven of
wheat and twenty-five of hay.
Gus Prang was one of the early
settlers in Grandview who set out
trees and made lawn. He is still
adding trees to the place and making
a notable landmark of his home. Mr..
Prang has a large potato cellar, a
garage, a machine shed, tank, wind
mill and water system. He built a
cement tank on solid base some
what above the ground, and built a
tight rock wall around it and COW
cred it over to make it heat proof
and frost proof. The air space is
packed with straw, making four
foot wad all around the inner tank.
Mr., Prang has potato seed cut
ter consisting of a tin funnel made
of four pieces of heavy tin that
spring under slight pressure at the
center where the potato gets chugged
against four knives that quarter it at
centers regardless of the size of the
potato. A light dasher followed or
conceived at the lower end presses
the potato down on the knives. Any
body can make one, and it takes lot
of the work out of seed cutting. He
has let a contract to Charlie Aldous
to erect barn at a cost of $1,000.
John Jensen has a nice home at
Grandview and raises little stock
besides twenty-five acres of hay,
twenty of wheat, four of barley, four
of potatoes, two of stock beets and
some oats and pasturage.
F. w. Strochein has bought the
w. Peterson place at Grandview and
is planning to build an eight-room
modern house. He was listening for
contractors for the house and some
headgates when the Cub saw him.
M. C. Thompson is leasing the A.
Y. Satterfield farm and besides car
ing for some cows and hogs and fif-
ty-six acres of crops he carries the
mail three times week from Sterl-
ing down the rural route.
Bryan Kelley of Sterling has some
wet lands that he is planning to
drain. He has fifteen acres of beets
and will try to put in forty acres of
fall wheat.
J. C, Cough is one of the old set
tiers southwest of Sterling and keeps
his wet lands in good condition by
much cultivation. He reports ten
acres of hay, eight of beets, ten of
wheat, five of oats and two OF po-
tatoes.
Joseph Cough lives on the low
lands between Sterling and Strang,
and reports about thirty-five acres
in hay, grain, potatoes and beets.
They report having observed differ
ences in beet yields varying from
six tons to eighteen tons due to dif-
ferences in cultivation on these wet
lands. They use the disc and har-
row literally.
J. V. Harris of Blackfoot has been
doing some blowing on a farm near
Strang, owned by c. V. Fisher and
F. C. Christ of Blackfoot.
Neff brothers live west of Strang
and five miles northeast of Aber-
deem. They raise some fine horses
and are doing some farming in
wheat, oats and potatoes.
Henry Gilbert has built a new
house on his farm at Strang.
R. A. Stearnes of Aberdeen has