The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-11

goods. Such a course gives stability
to the potato market and the prices
and insures the best of products,
This is a plan that Mr.. Neuman has
worked out for himself, being the
plan followed in some Of the older
states and what he and the potato
raisers in the Nampa district are
seeking to carry out other potato
~raisers can carry out with other dis
tricts which they get in touch with
the same as Mr.. Bales is doing with
his customers in Cache Valley. The
states are full of communities n a
would like to carry out such ar
rangements and our farmers can
choose their localities.
Mr.. Neuman says that County
Agent Monroe told him five years
ago that it would pay him to go to
dipping his seed potatoes and to dip
them every year before planting,
and he is satisfied that it is a good
thing to do and that it has paid him
to stick to it. He had twelve acres
of potatoes last year and he sold
$4,000 worth besides what he used
and kept for his W seed. Mr.. Neu-
man says the potato crop has almost
any kind of a future that men may
> determine to make for them. He
saws a man can work on his W in
dividual plans and have a chance to
carry them out. 1t is different from
raising beets in that respect, the
man who raises beets has opportun-
!, ity to carry out his individual plan
) and is only a. cog in a big crop he
has little or no control over. He
, cannot control his seed, nor his mar
I ket, nor the price; the only thing he
governs is his soil and the volume
: of the crop. In all other respects
he has to do what the rest do and
take what the rest take.
p Did Some Specializing
Claude Lamson, who bought the
o Ed Parsons place a few years ago,
has been doing a lot of grading to
t get the farm into condition to 1rrl-
gate nicely. Last fall he decided to
store his potatoes to wait for better
prices during the winter and spring.
He borrowed some money to pay his
e obligations that has to be met and
felt confident that he could repay
the loan and the interest out of the
e potato sales. When it was time to
s repay the loan the price Of potatoes
d was down so he sold his hay at 81 a
d ton to repay the loan. After he had
e disposed of the hay the price OF hay
went to $40 a ton and the price OF
e potatoes did not come up to what ne
e expected, so he lost going and COM
d ing. Mr.. Lamson says it is great
le sport to put in a crop and gamble
D on the results; it is also great spor,
1t to store a crop and gamble on wha1
it you will get for it..
10 Came From Lost River
w. A. Clark came from Little Los
River and bought the V. s. Raymond
place, formerly the ALI Parsons
ID place. When Mr.. Raymond bough
the place about three or four year,
st ago he built a large barn on it ant
in then operated a dairy. Finally tn
in barn burnt down. He had some diff
al fculties in getting the insurance
he made some compromises to get a set
= Element and lost his farm. MI
Raymond is living in southern Cali
fornia now.
Buying More Farms
George Reay has a forty acre farr
between the sugar factory and tn
Porterville bridge, which he has op
Grated for a number of years, an
now he has bought the Scofield plac
close to the sugar factory and n
and his two boys are operating bot
farms.
Built a New House.
Jacob Neff built a $4,000 house o
his place in 1920, installed a furnac
and is enjoying the new home. M,
Neff is not planting any sugar BEEF
this year, but has ten or twelve acre
of potatoes, six acres in hay an
some grain. In the rotation OF h
land he has a smaller amount IN ma
than usual so he is saving part
his 1921 crop to carry him over.
Anil Neff lives on the Lewis Ne
place and planting one acre of beet
twelve acres of potatoes and dips q
of his seed before planting 1t. l.
raises the Idaho rurals.
John Bischoff is not raising al
beets this year, but plants a crop
twelve acres Of potatoes n 9th
crops.
Dry Farming
j. j. Rudolph took a homeste'
some years ago, back of the la
beds north of Moreland on what
known as the Lemhi trail. He drill
a we'll on the place, sold water to
neighbors, moved wild hay right 0
in the open country, raised VIII
wheat he could, and when 1t came
the dry years he failed and left t
farm. He is renting thirty-five acr
Of the Nels Johnson place at t
north end of the Porterville bridt
He is planting five acres of bee
eight acres of potatoes and ten acr
Of grain.
Built on a Hill
Nels Johnson built his farm a
coralls on a hill overlooking t
narrows of the river just bell
Porterville bridge. His stock yar
are always we'll drained and
easily kept clean. Mr.. Johnson
down some trees this year to furn1
fuel and works them up in t
winter time while he has nothi
else to do and while they are froz
ord uyorL SIN ooci1v Az tho Onnni