The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-05-25
ing 1t hoping to bring some of it out.
He sowed 10 acres to spring wheat.

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HE sowed 10 acres to spring wheat
David Cousins, of Woodville, ha!
Just completed a 7-room house will
closets and bath. N. M. Van Sectors
has the contract and Is being assisted
by Michael Epson and James Yancey
The house is of buff brick and is be.
ing wired and plumbed and has
half basement.
Ostlin Hansen, of Woodville, has
20 acres of hay, 80 acres of pota-
toes and So acres of grain.
The Holmes ranch, belonging to
u. F. Shelley, is being planted to $50
acres of wheat and 100 acres of DO
tatoes. The foreman, Mr.. J. Hansen,
thinks the heavy freeze before the
snow came last fall was what killed
the winter wheat.
c. B. Hurst is operating a tractor
engine and gang pillow on the Shell
ley ranch west of Shelley bridge. He
says he plowed 20 acres in three
days just after starting to operate
1t and 1t used n and a half gallons
of gasoline per acre. He has pur-
chased the Ivan Jensen place north
lOf Moreland. 1t was seeded to winter
wheat, but it all winter-killed and
Mr.. Hurst will summer fallow it,
Walker brothers leased the Henry
Knowles ranch, north of Shelley's
Riverside ranch, They will have
about 80 acres of sugar beets and
quite a lot of potatoes.
J. F. Shelley's Riverside ranch lies
two miles west of Shelley and con-
sists of 1880 acres. William Gutke
is foreman and is working from 10
to 80 men, % horses, two gang
plows, harrows and planters. There
is about 800 acres of hay, 100 acres
of potatoes, dry farm grain $50 acres
and irrigated grain amounting to
100 acres. #
M. K. Thompson has a dry farm
west of Shelley containing 1920
acres, 700 acres was sown to winter
wheat and much of it was killed out.
He thinks the February thaw did the
damage. He is narrowing the. best
OF it to try to bring it out. Mr..
Thompson uses a team of 16 horses
and mules to draw two sets of discs,
l drill and l roller. The outfit takes
1871 feet at a sweep. His son oper-
ates a harrow with six horses that
takes 1871 feet at a sweep. Mr..
Thompson did all his blowing with
the teams and still thinks that horses
are better than tractors for farm
work. He uses two gang plows of
three bottoms each. When Mr..
Thompson quits for the day he quits
early enough to unhitch all the
horses and mules and take proper
care of them all as we'll as the har-
He has a plank manger
built 8 feet wide and 48 feet long,
for the hay and grain which is dump
ed into this for the animals. When
the animals are embarrassed the har-
nesses are hung up back OF them
and then Mr.. Thompson goes around
with an old case knife and scrapes
off the collars and collar pads and
every spot on the harness where dirt
has accumulated to cause pressure
On the animal. He then makes the
round to all the animals washing
and cleaning the bruises and sore
spots. Mr.. Thompson lived in Ore
son and Washington where they OPP
crate large farms with but few men
and he has brought some of the
and practices along to
Bingham county.
The Western Potash company, !
operated about five miles southwest
II Shelley during the season of 1915
burned a large amount of sage
rush, saving the ashes in large sala- :
handlers for Isl in manufacturing !
Apparently the adventure :
vas not successful for they have ;
ince been closed out, we are inform =
d, by a sheriff's sale. h
Nels Hoff sold 40 acres to J. B. /;
age for SIS per acre. The place :
; about 5 miles southwest of Shell =
BY. There was a cheap stable, a v
Moderately good house and a water h
light with the place. Ia
Iigley brothers have 100 acres of I
mich 20 acres is in wheat, Is in t
ats, 2 in potatoes and the rest in a
ay. o
Raymond Frandsen has 10 acres 8
I potatoes on his place as we'll as |
o acres of wheat, IL Of hay and 4 +
I oats. i
D. B. Cody lives east of Wapello ~
nd has 2 or 3 acres of red clover
hitch was winter killnd Mr. CodvI