The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-05-04

had been given q partial bath and
was very restless. We asked why
he washed the horse on such a cold
morning and he said, well, would
have had the horse dry by this time
IL YOU hadn't been here talking so
long" The dirt covering had blown
from the potato cellar and the frame
stuck up two feet above the covering
at the peak. The house had never
known any paint and old sticks,
poles, wires and tin can Uttered the
whole place and there was nothing
orderly about it. The only sign of
fuel was about a hatful of coal in
an old delapidated wagon box stand
ing in the middle of the yard. His
son was in the field blowing. The
strip of land he was working on was
in the form of rectangle and ne
was blowing around it throwing the
dirt out, and doing shallow blowing.
The little tract had evidently been
plowed that way for many years Tor
it was low in the center and nigh
on the edges, When irrigated the
center must naturally be saturated
before the edges can be moistened.
We asked why he did not back-fur-
row, so he would be leveling the land
while he plowed, and his relpy was
that he back-furrowed it last year.
It needs many back-furrowings and
much grading to get 1t SO crops
could grow without drowning. he
was blowing shallow and on the cut
and-cover process; the spring was
late and he was in hurry TO get inc
crops in. We asked the fatner II
he would be offended II we mace
some suggestions and he said ne
would not. Our reply was, First OF
all 7 think you should be prosecuted
for cruelty to animals. You should
get YOUR pitchfork and bank up the
old stable to keep the wind on the
horses during this bad weather; you
should use those old boards to make
comfortable place for the SOW and
nigs: YOU could provide some KIND
Of shelter for those wretched calves
and colts; you should get TINS ma
nure out on the fields where II coulo
do some good and cease doing Gam
age. Would you mind if | bring a
photographer out here and take a
picture of your place as it looks
now No? Well l would like to
take the picture and then one OF
vour neighbors' places who has
things neat and tidy. I should ike
to print both pictures side by sloe
in the paper to illustrate the dlHer,
ence in mems management. 1t would
probably cost SIS or $40 to have
photograph taken and the plates
made, but the lesson might DC
worth it." He said he was DONG the
best he could; that he had WORKED
for wages in all the earlier part o.
his career and it had not developed
his ability to plan things for him
self and this was his worst -hand1caI
when he went in business for MIN
self.
lust across the road from this
farm. at the time he began his OPP
erations seven years ago, there liVee
man who was consumptive, WHIT
had lost his health working in thu
mines. He was not farmer ant
his wife and child were not farmers
The wife took care of the child ant
managed the little 4O-acre farm
She worked and when the boy go
large enough he also worked. The.
are still working. The little 4O-acr'
farm is as neat as a pin. The oil
shack has been replaced by a com
Portable cottage and there is larg
potato cellar well kept. He recent
Nv sold about $500 worth of potatoe
that he harvested from two acre
last year. All of the buildings ar
we'll kept If shed was built o
straw it has been kept repaired wit
straw and is a good shelter. If tn
dirt covering blew from the celle
it has been replaced. There is gras
in the lawn and no grass in tn
strawberry bed, the house is KEEP
painted, the front gate on its hinges
the weeds down and the crops W
He has cut down part of the orchar
and all the sticks and limbs haV
been worked up into fire wood an
, piled up for summer use.
These two farms we have bee
: speaking of are the same size, nav