The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-11-30
THECUB SAYS


Our Taber correspondent reports
farmers enthusiastically seeding for
future harvests and working to sub
due more land for dry farming.
Albert Apple lives north of More
land on a dry farm and east of
Taber, says some very fine fall wheat
we reported upon early in July was
threshed few days ago and made
only thirteen bushels per acre. His
spring wheat threshed only six
bushels, so there is still some study
ing to be done to get the yield that
people hope for. He reported that
his neighbor Michael Gansky thresh-
ed eight bushels per acre.
Lysander Shelman was In from
Springfield recently and informed us
that he and his two sons are taking
considerable money off of their
farms. His son Don went in debt
rather heavily to get his place
fenced and some buildings on 1t, and
this year he is taking about $4,000
in crops, and feels very much en-
couraged over his undertaking. His
neighbor Sam Valenty, a young fell
low of foreign birth, who has had
the misfortune to break his arm the
past season, has about all of his
forty-acre farm ploweds and ready
for crops. Sam sees success ahead
and Is working for 1t. These men
are in the irrigated section.
Mr.. Shelman said that he and his
boys work together a great deal and
had 1000 bushels of wheat. 1000
Of oats, 1000 of potatoes, have sold
about 1876 tons Of hay, and have
plenty left for themselves. He says
all the folks In his community have
done we'll excepting some who have
not understood conditions we'll
enough to undertake the right
amount. Some have undertaken too
much and lost heavily by it. He
thinks they will sow less next year
and reap more. He reports having
harvested 600 bushels of potatoes
from an acre and half of ground,
this, of course, being their best, and
not the average.
He says Mrs. Shelman has been
keeping track of the income from
her chickens, and that she was very
much pleased with the returns, as
are also the whole family, for they
have the fat of the land in that re-
spect, poultry products on the table
practically all the time.
But it is the hog question that is
puzzling Mr.. Shelman and his house
hold. He says he has bred up a
herd of Jersey reds that are entitled
to registration thruout, and men
wanting to get into the hog business
have the nerve to come and look
them over and offer him the price
they would bring for slaughter. They
expect to get pure-bred stock hogs
at slaughter house prices, and actu
ally go away and leave them on his
hands rather than pay more. He
gets sore when he thinks about it,
and feels like slaughtering them all,
is rapidly approaching when they
would look back upon it as crime.
He says there is near famine in
this country right now, in stock
hogs, and the writer endorses his
statement. Mr.. Shelman says that
Hoover says not to misuse the
wheat, and also says not to slaughter
any stock hogs because of the
world famine in that respect, but he
can't put in all his time cooking
spuds and Shipping Nebraska corn to
preserve his herd till people wake
up to the advantages of having a
few hogs on each farm to use up
certain kinds of feed. He has $50
shoats varying in size from 1875 to
$50 pounds, and a lot of older stock
besides, and it is not profitable to
have on one farm what should be
divided up among twenty-five or fifty
farmers.