The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-17
What The Farmers Are Doing
CHAPTER XIV.

to the time Of her death on a steam
er off the coast of Australia in re-
cent years, she never got her money
back. For a number Of years no
mining operations have been carried
on there, but one man is doing some
experimenting near Thorn Springs
at the present time. M
A. Grimaud ownes the farm at
Thorn Springs and Is raising forty
acres of potatoes and some hay,
grain and other crops. Mrs. Girl
maud engineers fine flower and
vegetable garden and has about
hundred hills of hollihocks, q very
rank growth, and q great variety
Of colors. The Grimaud garden ana
DR.. Patries flower garden in Black
foot bear the distinction Of having
the greatest flash of color IN the
country, both of them being very
beautiful. Along the bank OF Thorn
Strings is a string Of black haw
trees with fruit.
Frank Rice lives on the Sanford
place above Rich and is raising
eighteen acres of potatoes, some GER
titled seed, he has no storage room
for potatoes but is expecting to build
something. He has eleven acres OF
wheat, thirty of hay, fifteen acres
Of Grimm alfalfa seed, he has a very
fine field of potatoes and says that
in order to raise fruit and garden
he needs water in the canal earlier
than they usually have it here.
Mr.. Rice says he has a carload of
poles coming from the Island Park
country and expects to build a po-
/ tato cellar and house afterwards.
He is going to lay rock walls in his
potato cellar and then plaster them
and try to keep it a perfectly clean
potato cellar. They have fine gar
den and abundance of all sorts or
vegetables in 1t.
Frank Johnson is raising ten acres
of potatoes and has storage for all
TOT them. He built potato cellar
2Sx75 in 1921; he has fourteen
acres Of grain and some hay and
| other crops. He is leasing some
land and he and the owner are plan
ming to buy about 200 sheep to put
on the place to pasture down the
ditch banks and keep the trash
cleaned up around the farm that
would otherwise go to waste and be
harboring insect beds. They want to
buy Rambouillet yearlings, two-year-
olds and some coming three. Mr..
Johnson's address is Pingree, Idaho,
route No. 1.
Barney Johannes has 333 acres Of
Hand and is raising eleven acres OF
very choice potatoes from selected
fields; he is taking care of his field
and will have it certified If every
thing goes well. He has forty acres
OF barley, ten acres Of oats and sixty
acres of hay. Mr.. Johannes has
: thirty-four acres that have turned
into swamp due to irrigation on
higher lands and is making drain
age system for it; he is making a
cut about seven feet deep to conduct
the water into Snake river. Mr.. Jo-
, names is trying to get his farm into
, condition to raise Herefords and
choice potatoes and grain. Mr.. Jo-
! hannes thinks that by fencing his
!. farm with woven wire fencing on
/ one side and making use Of the river
for a fence on the river side, that
I he can turn out most any kind OF
: stock in his fields and control them.
He says he is losing a great deal OF
his crops by not having hogs to turn
out into his grain fields after the
harvest. He says the practice of
turning hogs out without fences to
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