The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-02
ores Mr.. Ingram has leased a forty

4 Half Of Farm Into Crop
| H. e. Ingram leased sixty acre.
and expects to have thirty acres int,
crop this season. When he got tn,
place last fall there were fifteel
acres that had been cleared ant
farmed one year.
Lack of Water Killed Crop
D. L. Butler has a lease of 14(
acres and hopes to have ninety O,
hundred into crop this year. HI
lost most of his crop last year, partly
on account of the lateral bitches no,
being completed in time to use fol
irrigation purposes. The bitches
were made too small in the frs,
place and then had to be ENLARGED
and while the ditch work was be.
ing done the crops dried up.
In for Pure Bred Cattle
Frank Truchot lives near the base
OF the Ferry Butte, west OF Gibson
and Is going to try the cattle bust
ness, handling pure bred Holsteins.
He has bought a registered male and
some heifers. Il. l5 X,
Farming on Large Scale
Austin brothers have a lease of
about 1900 acres. lying on both sides
OF the railroad track between Black
foot and Gibson. They have about
1875 acres in crop this year. OF
this amount 400 is in fall wheat, 800
In alfalfa, PTS in sweet clover and
100 acres in beets. They are plant
ing 400 acres Of sweet clover in con-
nection with the other crops. They
have about $50 acres of sweet clover
that was planted about a year ago
and they will cut one scrop of hay
from it this year and then plow the
second crop under in August for
fertilizer. The same plan will be
followed with another section next
year and they will then seed the
ground to sugar beets. They raised
10000 bushels of wheat on this land
in 1918. That was the first crop
following the removal of the sage
brush. The land is slightly rolling
and the soil is thin. When they at
perfectly, by running the water be-
tween the rows as in beet culture,
they scrape off the top soil and get
into the gravel, so it is not consid-
cred practical to grade it for water
ing on that plan. Some doubt has
been expressed as to the feasibility of
sugar beet farm as is in
tended by the Austin brothers. but
1t is said that the Austins have ex-
pressed their intention of raising |
beets and beets they are going to |
raise! Waldamer Jensen is the fore
man on the Austin ranch and they
employ large number of men so
that the work can be done quickly
and finished in season.
Dust Storms a Trial
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Martin live on
he Austin ranch and Mrs. Martin
Ices the cooking for a number of
he employees. They live in frame
house, which is boarded up with
'hip-lap and after the shrinkage of
he lumber and the spring winds
md dust sorms set in, Mrs. Martin
'oyS IHOIc ID ploHIy OI QuSC IN the
louise. Sometimes she gets her work
III nicely done and the house in
rider, and there will come along a
lust storm. There Is no sod in any
Erection, but everything is torn up
nd ready to blow away and the dust
ravels into the house and all thru
t; then she has to wash all the
fishes and make a complete clean
p after all such storms. On a new
lace like that there are no flowers
or trees and it is difficult to raise /
garden, especially the first year ,
hen bitches and fences all have 8
D be made. Mrs. Martin says she /
cts hungry for flowers and green I
leadows, The nearest she got to
aising flowers last year was three t
Oxen tomatoe plants which she a
ursed to maturity and which pro- &
uced about three bushels of toma- i
,es.
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