The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
What the Farmers
Are Doing
Continued from page three

mas Doen engaged LOT some Time IN
road construction work and lives on
the Moreland townsite.
John England Sr. has five acres on
the Moreland townsite and devotes
his time to raising bees, fruits and
vegetables. He says he has been
raising those things for fifty years
and has observed that the people
who raise large garden usually
live better than those who have a
large ract OF land and a smaller
garden or none at all.
Earl Furniss has thirty-two acres
on rural route 4 east Of M0reland
that he bought in 1919 from Ed Patz
at $212.50 an acre. 1t had a two
room house, small stable, we'll
and the other improvements such as
water rights, bitches and everything
and was we'll graded. He is raising
ten acres Of potatoes, two acres Of
beets, five acres of wheat and the
rest in hay. He has some strawber-
ries, raspberries, currants, horse
radish, tomatoes, sweet corn Of the
bantam variety and other things in
the garden.
Wilson Ellis has forty acres a
mile southeast of Moreland and is
raising thirteen acres of potatoes,
eight acres Of beets, four of grain,
eight or ten acres Of hay and has
raspberries, rhubarb, horse radisn,
sweet corn, tomatoes and multiplier
onions in his garden.
Orvil w. Ellis is leasing forty
acres just south Of Moreland and has
three acres Of potatoes, five acres Of
beets, eight acres Of grain and
about twelve acres Of hay.
w. e. Cutforth has forty acres a
mile south Of Moreland and Is rails
ing eight acres of beets, three
quarters Of an acre of mangels, six
or seven acres Of potatoes and some
hay and grain. He built a house in
1919 consisting of seven rooms and
a full basement. He uses a gaso-
line engine for pumping water and
operating the washing machine. He
is raising raspberries, bantam corn,
pop corn, multiplier onions and to-
matoes in his garden.
w. P. Wray has forty-six acres
south Of Moreland and is raising ten
acres Of potatoes, nine acres Of
grain, seventy acres of hay, and
vegetables in the garden.
Wants Small Farm
Chris Knudsen is leasing fifteen
acres Of land southwest Of Moreland
belonging to Frank Decker. He is
raising seven or eight acres of po-
tatoes, two acres of hay, four acres
Of beets. Mr.. Knudsen wants to buy
small place of twenty-five acres or
less with about four room house
and prefers that it be close to
Blackfoot. II Mr.. Knudsen makes
such purchase it would be neces-
sary to get terms for part of the
purchase price.
o. p. Collister lives southwest of
MOreland and has fourteen acres of
potatoes, two acres of beets, twelve
acres Of grain, seventeen acres of
hay and aobut one acre of orchard.
The trees do not bear very much
fruit. He bought thirty-five acres of
F. T. Halverson in 1920 at 1912 an
acre. There were no buildings on
the ground, but it lies very level
and does not require grading to ir-
rigated it properly.
Paul Novasad is leasing part of
the McCarty place formerly the
homestead Of James Wray. He has
three acres of potatoes, five acres of
beets, fifteen acres of grain, twenty
acres of hay. Mr.. Novasad wants to
buy about thirty acres of land.
H. V. Wheeler is operating the
Curtis Tompkins place while Mr..
Tompkins is away working for the
railroad company. There are thirty
acres in the place and he has fifteen
acres of potatoes, three acres of
grain and some hay. They have just
set some strawberries on the place
this year and have raspberries,
sweet corn and tomatoes in the
garden.
William Parks is leasing fifty
acres in addition to twenty-five
acres of his own. He is raising
twenty-five acres Of potatoes, nine
acres of hay, eighteen acres of grain
and some hay. He has raspberries,
rhubarb, horse radish, multliplier
onions and tomatoes on the place.