The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-01

that he takes the bottom price. Mr..
Urbach thinks that when he can get
better than 81 for potatoes it is a
good time to let them go.
Roy Jones has a five-acre tract on
the northwest corner of the Grove
land townsite and is raising two
acres of potatoes, no beets, an acre
or Strawberries mot of the everbear-
ing kind and quarter of an acre
of raspberries. He bought the place
of K. G. Buckland the first of Feb
ruary, 1922, for $4,000. There is
a good house, stable, and a well
on the place, it is we'll fenced and
has a good water right. 1t has
good many raspberries, gooseberries
and other small fruit already bear
ing. He plans to raise considerable
small fruit and some poultry.
c. H. Farnsworth is planting
twnty-nine acres of potatoes, no
beets, thirty acres of grain.
A. F. Burgesen has eighteen acres
of potatoes, no beets, three acres of
hay, and some small fruit, including
considerable strawberries. Mrs.
Burgesen reports that she canned
fifty quarts of strawberries last year
and this with the other small fruits
raised on the farm cut down the
grocery bill considerably.
A. E. Warren has FIVE acres and
is renting some ground. He has ten
acres of potatoes, two acres of grain,
is raising half an acres of beets for
pig feed, and has some small fruit
including raspberries and strawber-
.ries in considerable quantities.
George l.. Warren has four and
a half acres and leases most of it
to his brother. Mr. Warren is work
ing for the Grimm Growers Seed as
ISOLATION.
A. F. Hammond has thirty acres
of land and is raising eleven and
half acres of beets, four of potatoes,
and some hay, he has an acre of
onions and some small fruit.
D. w. Bird has forty acres and
Is raising seven acres of potatoes,
no beets, six or seven of hay, and
the rest in grain. Mr.. Bird has the
Arthur Hale place he bought three
years ago. Mr.. Hale has moved to
Logan, Utah. Mr.. Bird says that he
planted some bad seed potatoes in
1921 and got very poor crop. He
has been experimenting some with
onions and says the Yellow Noun
tain Denver onion is the best for this
country. I'M. Bird built a machine
shed and granery last year and a
garage.
L. G. Retallick bought forty acres
of John Keel in 1917 and has the
land graded so that 1t waters al
most perfectly. The Retallick
farmily came from Murray, Utah,
and lived four years at Burnley,
Idaho, where they had to haul their
water and store it in a system, then
dip it out by hand for use. When
Mr.. Retallick came to Blackfoot to
buy farm he went back and re-
ported to his wife that he had Sc
lected farm and the only question
she asked him about was whether it
had a well on it or not. When he
reported that it had a we'll she said
she was satisfied. They have pump
in the well and gasoline engine to
operate the pump and Mrs. Retallick
says it seems like a dream compared
with conditions as they had them
at Burley, but she says that when
she goes down to Murray to visit
and they have the water piped into
the house with hot and cold water,
the bath tub and electric lights that
introduces another dream that
seems pretty good compared with
what they have here.
r. Tolman is leasing the ]. H.
Bond place this summer and has
fifty acres of potatoes, no beets and
some hay and grain.
William Ellison and G.. l.. Brown
are farming part of the Bond place
in addition to Mr.. Tolman. They
have four acres of potatoes, four
and half of beets, fifty acres of
hay, forty acres of grain.
]. H. Augustine has 500 acres
lying east of Moreland and is rails
ing about 100 acres of grain and
the rest is used for pasture. He has
about $50 cattle in the pasture and
about so head Of horses and ESQ
sheep and 40 or so hogs. He has
been working small crew of men
to get his canals in shape for irri-
cation. He plans to commence irri-
eating on the twenty-second of May
with about 1000 inches of water.
Mr.. Augustine says that if man
can afford to raise hay, harvest it,
stack it, and keep it till winter time
and then haul it out during the
winter and feed it to cattle for the
purpose of producing beef at four
and half or five cents a pound as
the farmers do when they take cat
tie to feed ION the spread" he can
certainly make more money by let
ting the cattle dun on the meadows
and harvest it themselves. This
saves him all the expense of hand
ling the hay twice and hauling the
fertilizer back on the field. He says
this old bugaboo about cattle bloat-
ing on alfalfa can all be avoided by
having the pasture made up Of
mixed grasses and it makes a much
better ration for the cattle besides.
He advises having mixture of al
falfa, sweet clover, red clover, white
clover, orchard grass, blue grass,
and any other varieties you can get
hold of at sowing time. He says
to let the pasture get good start
before putting the stock on and then
they will have an abundance of
grass all the time. When he speaks