The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-11
Boyle's Gasoiltire Service
A01 M. Main Street Blackfoot

living there and wishes him to re-
turn.
Mr.. HUMPHREYS lives on the Mil
lick place north Of the Porterville
bridge. He formerly lived at Shell
ley.
John Norman lives OF the old
| Norman place, originally the j. P.
| Porter homestead and has a fine
orchard, but the trees in the most at
tractive part of the place are OF the
Ben Davis and Gano varieties. In
the old orchard around the house
he has many varieties Of fruit. He
is planting no beets, six acres OF po-
tatoes, ten of wheat and has about
/ thirty of alfalfa. A young man
named Irwin Kaiser is working for
Mr.. Norman, and he is an industri-
Gus kaiser.
2. Norman has part Of the Porter
homestead and. has four acres OF
beets, six Of potatoes and about.
twelve Of alfalfa and some other
cro-s.
Some Model Farms
Louis Felt still operates the
Model farm, named ten years ago.
He built a mansion on it about three
years ago, and has a pumping plant
and plenty of buildings to house
everything. He fed two cars OF
steers from December till March and
made a little money on them besides
making a market for his farm pro-
, duce and acquiring a big stock OF
"gold dust" (fertilizer.) Mr.. Felt
says that the county assessor as
sessed his steers on the feed ground
so he could pay some taxes on them.
!. Mr.. Felt says it is much more
1 satisfactory for a farmer to buy
feeders than to feed them OF shares.
II the animals are ready to market
! and the price is low, the owner will
be pretty sure to withhold his con-
sent to sell them just then. He Will
g play a waiting game and the farmer
y will have to keep pouring out his
feed to keep the herd up in condl-
ton, ever tho they are not gaining
0 anything. In such event 1t costs the
owner nothing to hold them from
r week to week waiting for a rise in
price and the farmer gets little or
e nothing for his feed and work. IL
9 the farmer owns the herd he can fol-
low his own wishes about which
horn of the dilemma he will take to
q pocket the losses or dodge them.
n Mr.. Felt has an orchard, and says
it is a source of income. He said 1t
e is better to spray the trees every!
year. He got economical and did
n not spray for two years when cheml-
d Gals were very high, and he has paid
for it in DOOR fruit and more trouble
: to get the orchard clean again. He
Is says that it does not mater what we
It have, it must be taken care of or we
n lose it or lose values in quality or
70 quantity, and we might just as well
is make up our minds to keep forever
rs after 1t to take care of and protect
s. what we have.
= A Hog Raiser
= George R. Mason is n of the
10 men that helped make the fine swine
" exhibit at the Southeastern laano
q fair. He raises Duroc Jerseys, put
ID has had some losses OF pigs this year
ct at narrowing time. He says tnere
,r was too much cold and wet weatner
and was hard to keep the BABY pigs
comfortable. He keeps some hne
As milk COWS and has a search light
e. erected at his pump house and lights
u the barnyard with it. He has a de-
% vice for keeping the search light
gyrating slowly, throwing a great
Istream of light in all directions
es about the neighborhood and 1T was
as quite a novelty, but had no particu-
D. lar value beyond the novelty feature
or so he ~uncoupled the gyrator. He
ne uses the Delco lighting system. Mr'
Mason is raising no beets, but mas
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