The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-11

Crystal Springs ranch of several
hundred acres, is an experienced
stock feeder from Illinois, and In con-
nection with James Martin and F. G.
Bergman of Blackfoot has been buy
ing, feeding and selling cattle and
hogs. They have feed yards about
two miles south of Springfield, where
there Is a stream of 1000 inches of
cold spring water that never freezes.
The feed yards have the shelter OF
bluffs and willows and the large
farm is being rapidly enriched by
the fertilizer from the feed yards.
All three of these gentlemen are good
Judges of stock and have liking
and natural talent for the business.
In connection with B. D. Hanson they
have lease of 1000 acres of grazing
land in the mountains southeast of
Blackfoot, where they are herding
their stock until they can fence it.
Mr.. Leach gives some interesting OBJ
servations on the stock raising in
dustry among which are the follow
ing: "All the feed you give hog to
keep him going is dead loss. II
you feed a hog at all, push him with
all the feed he can use. wild grass
es once killed cannot be restored.
The grazing land that is plowed up
and then allowed to lie idle goes to
weeds, but it has no value for a
stockman. 1t is ruined. The dry
farmer who tries and fails, not only
ruins his own enterprise but helps to
ruin the stockman.'
Signey and Simon Christensen
and Erleng Poulsen are farming 24O
acres north of Springfield. They
bought eighty acres of W. w. Barton
of Salt Lake City at $55 an acre. II
had water right, was about hall
broke and had no house. They have
100 acres in meadow and will let
some of it go to seed. They are
sowing forty acres to alfalfa, seven
ty acres to wheat, ten acres to oats
and fifteen to beets.
A. D. Nelson has sixty-five acres
for hay, seventy for seed alfalfa, hall
common and half Grimm's, six in
oats, four in wheat and three in pc,
tatoes.
Fred Baird is farming the ole
Baird homestead south of Springfield
and has thirty acres in hay, ten in
beets, three in oats and one and one
half in potatoes.
C. E. Shaw lives west of the cana
"a few miles northwest of Sterling, has
forty acres of wheat and drilled il
also to Grimm's alfalfa and has ter
acres of potatoes. He has been OF
the farm three years. He came from
southern Utah and lost his wife las
fall. He kept his children in schoo
last winter and his father is witt
him this summer. He has an auto
mobile and dairy herd of nint
cows.
G. w. Parsons is farming twenty
five acres west of Sterling.
Mrs. Susan l.. Wray is pioneer
dry farmer located at the corner o.
township south, range 80 east
Boise meridian. She has three SOM
and a married daughter on adjoin
ing claims.
C. e. Smith came from Arkansa!
and he and his wife have half-sec
ton west of the Wray settlement
They spent the winter on the lant
but had no stock and have no crol
yet. They are young people and hat
a Christmas present of first baby
J. M. Buckner has been on hi!
claim three years and his son Noal
has an adjoining claim. ]. M. ha!
fifty acres of good winter wheat. 1
was sowed in September and haG
about seven inches of snow on i
when the hard freeze came about thu
10th of November. He is in section
Is, township 3 south, range 80 east
Arthur Abercrombie has a two-tor
auto truck with double tires ant
hauls wool from the Austin shearins
camp
e. Harmon has an auto truck fol
hauling wool from the Harmon shear
ing camp.
F. L. Westfall, ]. G. Maxwell, Com
err Hass, Sam Tillman and Floy(
Harsh have claims and are preparing
to farm them.
Earl Goldman has his family OF
his land and spent the winter there
His supply of hay was exhausted be
fore the end of winter and he tool
his horses to the settlement nea
Sterling. He kept the cow on tn
claim, reserving the last of the ha.
for her. His supply of fuel was ex
hausted and he used up $50 posts
He has sixty acres of winter wheat.
]. w. Chapman has sistern by
snowbank quarter of a mile iron
his house. He has it cemented an,
the snow water runs into the cisterl
itself.
f. E. Hush has fifty acres of win
ter wheat and ten acres of Grimm
alfalfa.
| Conner Hass has thirty-five acre
of winter wheat. ...
| NJ. S. King has been mapping on
a road from Harmon's shearing col
raj to Cerro Grande, distance G
fifteen miles, eight or nine of whic
will be new to connect old roads. TIL
shearing corral is five miles west G
the county line