The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-06


! acres of potatoes, sixty-five of grain.
twenty Of hay and has some pasture.
He raises raspberries, horse radish,
tomatoes and many other fruits and
vegetables on the farm. Mr.. Hon
has large barn and last winter had
eighteen sows that saved only two
pigs out of forty. He kept the sows
in the barn and during the very cold
! weather when the mercury went
down to forty below zero he could
not keep the sows comfortable. He
has about 100 little pigs from filters
that came later in the spring. He
recently had his cows tested for
tuberculosis and found they were all
right. He recently plowed up seven
acres of pasture land and sowed 1t
to oats and sweet clover. Early
this spring he bought a Fordson
tractor for $499 and used it to pillow
about 100 acres of land which was
done quickly and we'll so that he
could put in the crop while the
ground was moist and in good con-
dition. They tried to keep an &C.
count of gas and oil for the tractor,
but did not keep it very accurately.
They decided when they were done
that it cost them about SO cents per
acre for gas and oil. This did not
cover any allowance for deprecia-
ton on the machine. They con-
sidered it great advantage to get
the crop put in at the right time. If
they had had to do all their blowing
with horses part of the work would
have been delayed so that the
ground would not have had the
proper amount of moisture for
sprouting the crops. Mr.. Hoff and
his boys have introduced football
as recreation among their little pigs.
They take newspapers and make
them into hard bundle and tie
strings around it, and give it to the
little pigs and they have some great
games, a lot of fun and exercise out
of it.
Milo Andrus is leasing the Amer
farm this year, but the Arthur john
son family are living in the house.
Mr.. Amer built fine new house in
1920. Mr.. Andrus is raising twenty
acres of potatoes, and some hay and
grain.
Mrs. A. E. Frandsen has forty
acres of land and is raising twelve
acres of potatoes, one and half Of
mangels, one and half of cabbage
was planted, but the beetles nearly
ruined it and they nave some hay
and grain. They keep some bees
and raise some rhubarb in the
garden.
Mrs. L. Tolman has eighty acres
Of land which she bought in 1919
from George HeatOn at $110 per
acre without very much buildings or
other improvements. She and her
sons are operating the farm together
and are raising seventeen acres of
potatoes, sixteen acres of wheat,
seven of oats and some hay, apples,
prunes, raspberries, currants, goose
berries, rhubarb, tomatoes and
other things.
George Heaton has about 200
acres of land and is raising thirty
five acres of potatoes, fifteen acres
of peas for seed which they sell to
an Idaho Falls firm, twenty-five
acres of hay and about 100 acres Of
grain. They have leased some land.
They keep some sheep in pasture
lying along the canal. When the
peas are harvested they turn the
hogs in to pick up all the peas that
shatter off or fall on the ground or
that are left by tramping down in
the waste places. The hogs fatten
very rapidly on the peas and other
forage in the field and they con-
slider it worth about 5000 to the hog
crop.
Rural Route 3
John Gardner has forty acres that
he bought of Roy Tucker that form
erly belonged to Lester Howard, the
price being $212.50 per acre. He
has six acres of potatoes, seven and
half of wheat and about twenty
five of hay. They have rhubarb,
horse radish, multiplier onions and
asparagus on the place and are rails
ing bantum sweet corn.
Gus Anderson and his mother
Balvina Anderson have forty acres
of land at Wapello and are raising
about twelve acres of potatoes,
twelve acres of grain and twelve
acres of hay. They have everbear-
ing Strawberries and have had for
the past eight years. When they
started with their everbearing
Strawberries they set 600 plants and
they all died but eighty, but they
kept on cultivating them and now
have all the plants they want. They
have plenty of Strawberries for their
own use and some for sale. At one
time they sent some plants to G. w.
Krottoschinsky, who lives in Cali
fornia, and the last they heard Of
them was that Krottoschinsky was
picking strawberries from their
everbearing plants for Christmas
dinner. Mr.. Anderson reports a
better success than most people on
the crop of spring pigs. This year
he had two sows that he allowed to
run loose around the barn yard ex-
cept for a few days at narrowing
time, when he put them in the
stable, gave them light feed and not
much of it and then turned them out
again so that the pigs could have
plenty of exercise. There were
twenty-three young pigs, they lost
one, he killed two runts and saved
ofhor %u,orfv Mr. An1orcOr