The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-10

acres of wheat, forty of oats, eighty
acres of hay. The grasshoppers
have done considerable damage as
well as the false chinch bug.
Louis Frank came from Santa Fe,
New Mexico, and has one acre Of
land near the center of field east
of the Pingree townsite. 1t was for
merly a part OF the townsite and was
one of many acre tracts offered for
sale some five years ago. Mr.. Frank
is carpenter and contractor and is
building a $4,000 modern house on
the place, with an acytelene light
ing system and power pump that
will furnish water in the house.
They will also have a heating plant
and have hot and cold water at the
tap. They have planted their tract
to trees and shrubs and garden, and
shipped in many kinds of plants
from Santa Fe that are new to this
locality.
E. S. Buchanan has 100 acres
south of Pingree which was former
ly the, Inskeep place. He reports
sixteen acres of potatoes and storage
for about 1000 sacks; he has five
acres of beets, twenty-five acres of
hay, three acres of onions, eight or
nine acres of Grimm alfalfa seed.
The grasshoppers did some damage
to the seed.
]. w. Hennibold bought eighty
four acres of O. B. Reddick for
$4,000. They have a garden tract
that slopes to the north and is pro-
tected from the wind by the hill on
which it is situated. 1t does not get
the burning effect of the southern
sun, the soil is deep and we'll fer
tilted and they have a wonderful
garden. They are at the side of the
railroad track and report that the
railroad right of way is an incubator
for squirrels and gophers. They
wish the railroad company would
| have the section men poison the
| squirrels the same as the farmers
are poisoning them. In their garden
they have onions, Chinese peas, ever
| bearing Strawberries, Chinese giant
beans that are good to fry like po-
tatoes, and roast and eat like pea
nuts; they have sweet corn, popcorn,
giant German gooseberries that are
very sweet and rich, watermelons
muskmelons, Italian squash that
grow in great quantity and are very
much like egg plants and suitable to
serve like fried meat; they have
! three or four kinds of pumpkin and
SUMMER squash, winter lettuce that
they transplant into the cellar in
boxes of earth late in the fall and
keep using out of the lettuce thru
out the winter; they raise some gar
lie that grows. very much like onions
| and is valuable for curing meats;
they have the Japanese crook-neck
squash for slicing and baking and
for making custards; they raise
cauliflower, spinach, rhubarb, they
plant their beans and corn in rows
side by side, three rows of beans
and three rows of corn and the corn
protects the beans from the changes
in the weather. Last year they had
one strip of beans in which there
was one-twenty-siXth of an acre that
yielded 100 pounds of beans, this
being at the rate of about $500
pounds per acre. A good many peo-
pie criticize the Pingree country for
being poor soil and not being
profitable to farm, but everything in
the Hennibold garden yields abund-
antly. Each one OF the small boys
on the place is raising hollihocks,
snap-dragons, dahlias, some special
kinds of beans or squash or some
thing that he takes great pride in.
Mr.. Hennibold has about three acres
of potatoes and very little storage
room; three acres of oats, ten acres
OF wheat, Twenty-Five acres of
Grimm alfalfa and the grasshoppers
did some damage to it. They have
tract of dry land beans which do
we'll without irrigation. Some of
the farmers in the Pingree country
have complained that the land re-
quires such frequent watering that
they do not like it, and we suggest
that they investigate such crops as
beans that grow without any irriga-
ton. Some of the soil is of such a
nature that after it is irrigated it
runs together and bakes like mix
ture of flour and water would do.
Vid Mercvic bought the B. D. Sui
Ivan farm on the installment plan
and is raising two acres of potatoes,
six acres of grain, forty acres of
Grimm alfalfa seed and some hay.
The grasshoppers have done consid-
cradle damage to about fifteen acres
of it.
Oscar P. Rever lives southwest of
Pingree and reports ten acres OF
wheat, five acres of oats, five or
six acres of potatoes, ten acres of
hay and about ten acres of Grimm
alfalfa.
John l.. Stevens and his brother
Ernest Stevens are leasing part OF
the Cushman place southwest OF
Pingree. They have about sixty
acres of potatoes and. some hay and
grain and no storage for the pota-
toes, but are expecting to build
something.
J. A. Jones is a ditch rider on the
American Falls canal.
Theron Fackrell is the ditch rider
on the Springfield Lateral canal, a
part of the American Falls canal
Mr. Eackra11 hac an oipht voar o1d