The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-18

drink.
For the information Of those who
think that a poor man cannot go on
make a living and educate his child
rem we are adding some personal
notes about the members of the
family and what they have done.
Enoch, the only boy, nineteen, is
still at home helping the folks. One
of the daughters, Alma, married and
there was a separation and she Is a
sales lady in a mercantile institution
in Salt Lake City. hannah has not
had such good health as the others
and her schooling was interrupted
at times. She graduated from the
Salt Lake Business College, but is
at home helping the folks just now.
Hannah works both in the house and
out of doors and Is striving to get
her health back. Ruth graduated as
a nurse in 1919 and is going to visit
her sister in Pittsburg next month.
HERNIA married an engineer. and Is
living in P~ittsburg. Hannah is a
bookkeeper and has worked for
several years for the Salt Lake
Hardware company at Salt Lake.
They transferred her to the Pocatello
office, but she did not like Pocatello
so they took her back again to the
Salt Lake office. Judith graduates
this year from the University of
Utah. She was a graduate t,of the
Blackfoot high school. Eleanor Is a
graduate nurse and is to be married
next month to an electrical engineer
and they will make their home in
New York City. She met him; while
visiting her sister in Pittsburg. They
attended the same church at the
time the got acquainted and are
planning to make 1t permanent.
J. M. Lee has leased the Chesney
Woodline place this year. Chesney
is farming near Arimo in Marsh val
ley, operating a farm that belonged
to his uncle.
!; A Readers Comment
DR.. Hoover said he read last
weeks farm column with a great
deal of interest and considers it
valuable information. He said he
did not agree with the man who
proposes planting his potatoes
rather late in order to have them
moderate size for seed. He thinks
the theory is wrong; he thinks If
the end of the season comes before
the potatoes have matured he will
simply have immature seed. DR..
Hoover thinks getting good seed is
to raise the best crop he can, then
sort out those that are not too large
for seed, that is those that would be
wasteful on account of their size,
use the very large ones for food
and plant the medium sized po-
tatoes.
George Yost says our farm reports
published heretofore have generally
been more or less incorrect and
sometimes we did not make a com
plete report; he says he has OBJ
served reports that they are very
n sided and that if the other side
had been given it would have
!, changed the understanding or i'm
preston given by the article. He
thinks farmers should be conscient-
ious and particular in giving thei!
, reports so that they will not mislead
!, the. readers who do not understand
the whole situation. If they become
enthusiastic, giving the rosy side OF
!, it without giving the discouragine
features it is apt to mislead people
who are inexperienced.
OF course, the publisher does mo-
vouch for the figures given him, buI
9 merely gives the interviews al
g nearly as possible as they are give1
by the farmer and stOckman. Tit
r man being interviewed does no
usually vouch for the correctness il
: matters of acreage and does not al
ways claim to be correct as to thu
i yields for he does not always weigh
or measure tho some of them do
4 Some of these interviews. are givel
when the farmer has had little or NJ
: time for reflection on what he is t.
e say. Some allowance is to be mad
9 for that feature of it. Some of tn
r farmers If they had time to think
over would change their report
e somewhat.
w. c. Sollenberger spent tn
winter in California and came bacl
a little late this spring and says h
!, is behind with his work. He /
planting twenty acres of potatoes
. five acres of beets, has about thirty
five acres in hay, twenty acres il
i grain, and twelve acres in pasture
= He has some Jersey hogs and wa
spraying his orchard when we wer
there. He uses electricity to do hi
9 pumping and has the plant in tn
basement.
j. M. Turner is on the old Kline
homestead and is planting twent
4 acres Of potatoes, has twenty acre
in hay, no beets and twelve acres Il
grain.
Rural Route 4
g M. ]. johnson has seventy acre
q carved out of the northwest corne
= of the O. F. Smith place, formerl
part of the Y. B. Trego homestead
. He has about 400 apple trees Of tn
y Wealthy and Macintosh Red variety
y He takes good care of the trees
4 keeps them sprayed and cleaned an
last year had 1900 boxes Of whic
4 1900 were Wealthies and 600 Mat
Intosh. He is raising twenty acre
8 Of potatoes and no beets.
:, Alvin Ockerman is raising N