The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-03

five and half acres of land. He
has five acres of potatoes, and some
beets and hay, fruits and flowers. He
has some of his garden planted in
the field and at some distance from
the house and is getting very salts
factory results.
James Cameron is one of the early
residents of Thomas, who has farmed
and worked at his trade, brick lay
ing. He has put UP good buildings
on his place, has fine stone and
brick house we'll arranged and well
furnished, good barn and machine
sheds. He has roof-doors on his
barn and uses the derrick to drop
the hay right into the hay NOW,
without having to run it along on
the horizontal track in the gable.
Mr.. Cameron has a Case fourteen
horse power thresher for sale. It is
in good storage and he is not intend
ing to use it. Neither lie nor his
partners have time to run it, and
they will sell it cheap.
He has some of the pure bred reg
istered Berkshire hogs, and has one
pair that he says are as good as any
in the state ii not the best. He has
three and three-fourths acres of po-
tatoes, four acres of beets, three and
a half of cats, twenty of wheat and
twenty-eight of hay. He has rasp-
berries, rhubarb, horse radish and
many ether things in the garden. He
has one and three-eighth acres
fenced in a hog pasture that is
planted to wheat. and peas and will
turn the hogs in on it when they are
ripe enough. He will keep a small
stream of water running thru a
corner of the pasture and the hogs
will do their own chores while they
fatten.
Thomas Jones has twenty acres of
land and is raising three and half
acres of potatoes, three acres of
beets, two acres Of hay and four
acres of grain.
Fred F. Miller has been farming
on reservation for three years and
gave it up. He said that with crops
well planted and plenty of water for
irrigation he could ont get profit
able yield and he quit. He is leas-
ing some of the James Cameron
place and crops are looking good.
The Thomas Mercantile company
Is new firm that opened store at
Thomas on February 20 in a build
Ing they had remOdeled.
G. F. Wright is leasing the I. R.
Johnson farm and has eight acres of
potatoes and some hay and grain.
]. L. Van Orden built fine house
IN 1920 using TAPESTRY brick. The
house has q full basement and is
wired for electric lights and
plumbed for a water system and the
heating system Is not yet installed.
Mr.. Van Orden has twelve acres Of
beets, fifteen acres of potatoes,
eighteen acres of wheat, ten acres of
bats and some hay.
Ray Harmon is son-in-law Of
John r. Williams and for the past
our years has been farming the
place where Mr.. Williams formerly
lived. Mr.. and Mrs. Williams are
living at the residence on the east
and Of the Williams farm. Mr..
Harmon has six acres of beets,
acres of wheat, four
lcres of barley and some hay. Mr..
Williams has thirty acres OF pota-
oes, eight Of beets, twenty Of grain
md thirty Of hay. Part Of his
and has been very heavily fortified
md some Of the wheat fell down
Turing the hard rain storms that
anne recently.
j. r. Harmon has fifty acres Of
and and Is raising fourteen acres Of
potatoes, one and a half acres of
rain and some hay. Mr.. Harmon
'uilt house in 1921 with five
ooms and full basement, bath,
losets etc. He uses the carbon
lights in his house.
John Walters has ninety acres of
and and he and his sons are raising
fifteen acres of potatoes, and the
est is in hay and grain. They have
aspberries, rhubarb, horse radish,
nultiplier onions, sweet corn, peas,
ettuce, currants and other fruits in
lis garden. He planted quite
arge tract of beans. Mr.. Walters
, quite interested in the articles we
ave published on the melon in
ustry and is hoping that somebody
ill undertake it in this community.
Raymond Anderson lives on one
f Mary Williams farms and has
lree acres Of potatoes, fourteen
cres of grain, three acres Of hay
nd has the rest in pasture.
Mr.. French lives near the river
ruth Of the Anderson and Will
ms farms, having bought forty
res there of Arthur Broadhead. BY
lily % he had not done any irrigat-
lg of his crops and they were doing
ell by sub-irrigation alone. He +