American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-02-26
By THE PILGRIM"

annual cuttings. Gardens are planted
on both the dry farm and on this irri-
gated tract and, strange to say. the
dry farm is. the more productive of
the two year for year. Sweet corn
regularly natures on the dry farm in
sufficient quantity to dry and store
away for winter use The dairy fea-
ture of the ranch is conducted on the
irrigated tract. Last summer six COWS
were MIXED and Mrs. Barnard sold an
average of y pounds of butter per
week besides supplyin the hosehold
and the dry farm. She also makes
homemade cheese, last summer making
Is cakes weighing ten pounds each.
This cheese in part was stored away
for use during the winter.
A flock Of more than 50 Rhode Is
land Red chickens lay enough eggs
during the season to give a surplus for
marketing.
The w%orkbunch of horses and mules
number 20 head, including some fine
grade Percheron and Belgian horses.
MIR. Barnard owns Billy Brlow," a
pure-bred black P%ercheron stallion
one Of the stocky and s~hort-coupled
kind. This horse is put in the harness
and worked the same as the less aris-
tocratic members of his tribe. The
sire of this horse was owned by the
Utah Agricultural college It Logan.
While visiting at the ranch of Mr.. Bar
nard he pointed out an old timer in
his bunch of horses grazing in the
alfalfa field. 1t was "Old joe" a
grade Thoroughbred, who has been in
his possession the past Is years and
is now % years old. The Old-timer
is known to every rider in the county
and there are very few square miles
of territory in Power county over
which he has not carried his master.
His working days are over. but there
is nothing on the ranch too good for
HIM. the old pensioner.
This rancher raises stock cattle as
we'll as dairy ow.s From so to 100
head of cattle are always on the ranch
and the beef stock is mostly marketed
among his neighbors and in town.
A pure-bred Poll-Durham bull is
owned on the ranch and the entire
bunch of cattle is being graded to that
dual purpose strain. The dairy COWS
are all high grade Red and Roam Dur
hams, except one pure bred HOlstein
COW, and Mrs. Barnard declares that
the black-and-white is the best reve-
nue-prOducer in the whole bunch.
Money From Hogs
Mr.. Barnard is another Power coun-
ty farmer who has not overlooked the
winning proposition of raising hogs
for the market besides his home needs.
In 1906 he started in with the O. I. C.
Improved Ohio Chester White). but
has now pinned his faith to the Pol
and-China hog as best adapted to this
climate. At present he has 35 head
in his drove, and to give them plenty
of pasture to range over he has fenced
a tract of 24O acres hogtight; a smaller
tract is fenced likewise in order to
have alternating pasture. On the dry
farm is located a spring which gives
plenty of water for the hogs. a prime
necessity in the successful raising of
these mortgage lifters. BY means of
a self-feeder chopped wheat and bar
ley is fed as a fattening ration. Last
fall Mr.. Barnard sold II head. averag-
ing PIG pounds i'm weight. at Is cents
per pound They were delivered in
American Falls and sold on the hOof.
This bunch had not been in the fatten-
ing pens for a minute. being taken di-
rect from the stubble when marketed ;
they were from Is to is months old.
Mr.. Barnard stated that he had no
objection whatever of the Polgrim in
formed the readers of these columns
that he made a very nice profit on
these hogs. He added that in his Opin-
ion every farmer in this county could.
and should. raise at least a few more
hogs than he needs for home con
sumption.
Mr.. Barnard is a native of BOXeldei
county. Utah. son Of Ezra and Esther
Baty Barnard, early Utah pioneers.
His mother crossed the plains as a
member of a handcart party organized
or the Missouri river. and now re-
sides in Harper Ward. four miles north
Of Brigham City, Utah. The pioneer
is in her eightieth year, but still at
tends to her household duties. For
more than half a century she has re-
sided in Harper Ward. Ezra Barnard
was one of the Utah pioneers ordered
by Brigham Young to go TO the Salmon
country in Idaho and establish a set
Element there. The colony was NJ.
tackled by Indians and Pioneer Bar.
nard was one of the two men who
made the dangerous trip on horseback
in the middle of winter TO Brigham
City to report the attack and summon
help. The ride from the fort an tbs
Salmon river TO Mountain Springs
south of Malad, took six days and sly
nights. Not a bridge had been bull
and all streams. including the Snake
river. had to be forded. Ezra Barnard
died in 1903 and is laid TO rest in the
cemetery at Brigham City. Thoma:
Barnard lived in BOxelder county
Utah, until he was 16 years old Ht
first came to Rockland valley in 1884
when nine years old and spent a sum
mer with his sister. Mrs. II. p. Frod
sham. At that time Mr.. Frodshan