The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-15

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the ranch by feeding them to cattle
and hogs, dealing entirely in high
grade stock. They now have about
100 Duroc Jersey hogs Of high grade
but not registered and about
seventy-five cattle.
A year ago they built three
cement silos with $50 tons capacity
each. They employed firm to send
them man and the necessary
forms. They furnished the materials
and most of the labor and the man
in charge furnished the plans and
directed the work. The silos cost
them about $3.50 apiece plus their
own labor, which made them cost
about $1,000 each. When they filed
the silos last fall, it took about a
week fill each one. They used a
combination of sun flowers and peas.
The sun flowers were satisfactory
as to quantity and quality Of silage,
but they found them very hard to
harvest and handle. They made
about forty tons per acre and they
had to cut them down with corn
knives and it was like Telling little
trees all the time, the height rang
ing from ten to twenty feet, fifteen
feet being about an average height
for the sun flowers. They could not
rake them up and load them like
hay, but had to lay them ON the hay
rack one at time. Handling them
was greatly complicated by the fact
that each stock had big flower on
the end and when a man goes to
pick it up he has to drag 1t out to
get 1t untangled from all the rest of
them and it just wears man out
dragging each stock out of the mass.
| They decided that the great advant-
age of tonnage in the production of
sun flowers was offset by the dis
advantages and tediousness of
handling them when they harvest
them. A machine that will cut
them load them and deliver them to
the silo in some form would be nee
essary to make them a practical
crop and then they think the sun
flowers would be a world beaten for
silage. This year they have planted
forty acres of corn for their silage
crop. They are raising seven acres
of potatoes, 1875 acres of grain, 1875
acres of alfalfa hay, fifteen acres of
Idamine oats from certified seed.
They have it on clean ground and
will have it inspected during the
summer so that it can again be GER
titled If it comes up to standard so
it will sell for seed.
In the latter part of winter Edgar
Fjeldsted met with an accident and
broke his leg. It made the spring
work fal heavy on his brother Ezra,
who kept one man hired most of the
time and they operated Titan trac-
tor to do their blowing. They aver
aged nine acres day with the ma
chine and it kept eight horses busy
to do the drilling, narrowing and
finishing of the field after the trac-
tor. The tractor worked thruout
the season without any trouble, ex-
cepting one day when there was
something out of order that the
driver had neglected to keep prop
erly oiled. AS soon as that was re-
paired it worked satisfactorily
again. They plowed the land from
six to nine inches deep and used two
gallons of kerosene Oil per acre and
about two-thirds of a quart of lubri-
eating oil. The tractor was of the :
1920 type and they considered it a
life-saver in this emergency when !
they were short of help and rushed
for time.
Chris Haffmer lived on a dry farm
northwest of Aberdeen several years
and bought forty acres last year of
Harry Spencer. 1t is situated in the
forks of the river and the price paid
was $112 per acre. He is raising
five acres of potatoes, twelve acres
of barley, twelve acres of hay, some
orchard and lot of garden truck
and onions for commercial purposes. !
w. e. Hansen has 104 acres in his
farm and is raising ten acres of po-
tatoes, thirty-five of wheat, twenty
of oats and thirty-five of hay.
o. l.. Kofed has eighteen acres of
potatoes, seventy acres of wheat,
thirty of which is at home and forty
is on the reservation. He has twelve
acres of hay. The land he is farm
ing on the reservation lies at the
edge of the bench and bringing the
water down off Of the bench the
stream cut out great ouch on the
hill and he had to rirrap it for about
300 feet to control the water
William Miller has forty acres in
his farm and is raising fifteen acres
of potatoes, ten acres of grain and
twelve acres of hay.
w. H. Davis has fifty-one acres
and is raising ten acres of potatoes,
two acres of beets, fifteen of grain
and sixteen of hay. He recently
built brick house 2Sx32 feet in
size.
P. j. Wright is raising three acres
of onions and half an acre of cab
bage just east of Blackfoot. He says
he has been offered two and half
cents pound for his onion crop.
Artie Wright has eighty-six acres
of irrigated land between the rivers
near the Stewart school house and
some bench land. He has eighteen
acres of beets, fifteen of potatos,
sixty of hay, three-quarters of an |
acre of onions and some grain.
w. E. Barnard has leased the I
Michael Epson place. He is raising {
fifteen acres of hay, thirty-two of
wheat, fifteen of oacts and twenty
Two acres of potatoes.
P. c. Anderson bought forty-four {
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