The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-06
What the Farmers
Are Doing
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them. He has seventeen acres Of
potatoes, twenty-seven acres oil
grain. He has we'll on the place
10 feet deep.
~ Failure or Success
e. H. Seemann was manager for
one of the United Beet Seed farms
near Goshen and when they gave UP
raising beet seed Mr.. Seemann
leased the Thompson farm of 100
acres and eighty acres of the Nc
MILAN farm adjoining it during the
war and there came the big slump
in the price of farm products after
the heavy expense had been incurred
putting in the crops. paying high
wages and all the high prices. He
stuck to the job in 1920 and 1921
while this process was going on and
while he was losing rather than
making money. He bought consid-
cradle equipment tand is still buck
ing the game. Mr.. and Mrs. Seemann
had influenza along with the other
difficulties and their health was i'm
paired by that, but they are still
waging the battle for success. They
do their blowing with Fordson
tractor and last fall owing to un-
fortunate circumstances they did not
get any of their fall blowing done
and had all of it to do this spring.
T. They feel that If they had not had a
tractor they never would have got
the crop in in time, but they oper-
ated the 'Fordson night and day and
got their crops in early while the
ground was still moist. They say
that the cost of operating the Ford
son varies according to the condi-
ton Of the ground whether wet,
heavy, sticky or light. 1t makes a
much greater draught on the gaso-
line blowing in the heavy sticky land
than in the light sandy land. They
think the cost Of gas and oil runs as
high as $1.75 an acre for blowing,
but the Fordson does the work and
does it rapidly. They have about
100 acres Of grain, twenty-five acres
of hay, thirty-five acres of potatoes
and out of this they have ninety
acres of Dicklow wheat that they
think will be susceptible of certify
ing. They have been careful with
their potato seed. They will try to
do the field work in the potatoes to
entitle them to have their potatoes
certified. They are not sure they
can get the help to do all the hand
work necessary for certification.
They live on Shelley R. F. D. No. 2.
F. j. Wilson built a house in
1919; he has eighty acres of land
and is raising fourteen acres of po-
tatoes, twenty-five of wheat, eight Of
barley and has some pasture and
says the orchard does not yield very
much and he leaves the trees for
shade for the animals in the pasture.
]. w. Hess has forty acre farm
and is raising twelve acres of pota-
toes and some hay. Mr.. Hess had
typhoid fever last year from March
until June and did not get to farm
much. This year he has eight acres
of potatoes that were planted very
early and look like they would pro-
duce big yield and be ready for
early harvest. He is on Shelley
A. j. Christensen has twenty
three acres of potatoes, eighteen
acres of wheat, thirty acres of hay
and some pasture and orchard. He
has some raspberries and is going
to set strawberries in August.
Goshen has fourteen members in
its potato club and are carrying on
their potato projects on fourteen dill
Co. IN ascn
They are doing good deal of agri-
cultural work in the school and are
doing their best to mix agriculture
and school work and have them both
practical.
Asael Hess is raising fifty acres
of potatoes and some hay and grain.
B. B. Stringham has twenty-nine
acres of land in Goshen and is rails
ing eight acres of potatoes, three
acres of beets, eight acres of hay and
in his garden he has strawberries,
rhubarb, horse radish, multiplier
onions and various other things. He
says he has an unusual variety of
winter onions that he bought from
Georgia, where he and Mrs. String
ham were on a mission for year
and a half. They also brought back
with them about fifteen kinds of
flowers that had not been growing
in their locality and these they have
been sharing with neighbors and
friends who wanted to get start.
The onions that were mentioned
that were brought from Georgia are
unusually good for picking and for
use in the spring soon after winter
breaks. The Stringhams are very
generous in sharing with friends
and neighbors the roots and bulbs
and will give them a start of almost
anything they want, but they have
decided to specialize on the onions
mentioned and are transplanting
them on their own ground to get as
large a tract as they can in a short
time and may furnish them COM
mercially to the country around
them. Mr.. Stringham had a dis
astrous fire last fall which destroyed
all his buildings but the residence.
J. H. Hansen has fifty acres of
land in Goshen and is raising twelve
acres of potatoes and some hay and
grain.
j. M. Munson and Nels Munson
working together are raising about