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

about six acres of his grain taken
by the squirrels and gophers. He
is on James Beebe's farm and re-
ports thirty-seven thoroughbred Du-
rock Jerseys and has one male for
sale. He is year and half old
and is from the Jess Richards farm
at Virginia, Idaho. Mr.. Inskeep's
address is Pingree, route l.
John Josephson has ten acres of
potatoes, has some cellars and will
build more storage room. He has
twenty-five acres of grain, fifty
acres of hay and has strawberries,
raspberries, rhubarb, horse radish
and other things in his garden and
orchard. Mr.. Josephson has rhubarb
and ever-bearing Strawberries to
spare for neighbors who want to get
a start. Mr.. Josephson commenced
farming in that locality about the
year 1906 or 1907, and has been I'M
usually successful. After he got his
own place pretty we'll improved, he
became interested in acquiring more
land for speculation and says he has
come to the conclusion that it was a
mistake and that he would have
been better off and he and his fam
lily would have enjoyed life more if
he had been content with a smaller
amount of land and farmed 1t bet
ter. He bought eighty acres two
years ago for $4,000, thinking he
was going to make some money on
it, but it does not look now as if
he would, or at least, he wishes he
had not bought it. Mr.. Josephson
has come to the conclusion that
forty acres of land is about right for
family and that if they will farm
it we'll they can make a good living
on it; if they have more than that,
they do not farm it so we'll and do
not gain anything by it and in these
days when taxes and water assess
ments are so very high it adds great
ly to their operating expense to have
more acres of land.
H. Naillon and Leonard Josephson
are operating place together and
| have forty acres of potatoes and
storage for about fifteen carloads;
twenty.seven acres of grain, seven
acres of hay, ten acres of Grimm al
falfa that the grasshoppers nearly
ruined and they are pasturing it.
S. w. glastonbury has 100 acres OF
land and reports nineteen acres OF
| potatoes, forty-five acres of hay and
some grain. He has storage capaci-
| ty 30x60 feet in size and will build
another large potato cellar.
R. P. Cope is living on the origi-
nal Cope place and has about forty
acres of Grimm alfalfa that. he is
raising for seed. He says the grass
hoppers ruined about ten acres Of it
He has twenty-five acres of potatoes,
twenty acres of grain, forty acres OF
hay, and has storage room for about
1900 sacks Of potatoes. Mr.. Cope
says he thinks it is duty that all
the potato raisers owe to themselves
to have plenty Of storage room tC
store one-half or two-thirds of their
potatoes. He says he thinks it is a
certainty that buyers keep the price
of potatoes down when they know
they have the farmers at thei1
mercy and without storage, but il
the farmers build plenty Of storage
facilities, it will be good invest
ment besides an insurance against
| flooding the market and having to
take the low price when the weather
is getting cold.
Jim Dorgatti is a young Austrian,
who came to this country in 1913 at
at the age of 10 years. He worked
for wages in the Pngree country I'M
til the war broke out and he enlisted
in the American army and served
about two years. When he came
back from overseas he had to start
| in all over again, but says that his
army experience was worth a great
deal to him in some ways. He says
that he learned faster to speak Eng
lish in the army than at any other
time. He attended night school
while he was in the army when sit
uated so that he could and for one
month while he was in the army of
occupation in Germany they had
school that they could attend most
of the afternoon and he took adval-
tage of all and learned a great deal.
He uses pretty good English now but
speaks with the foreign accent. He
married an American girl, Miss
Beebe, bought farm on the INSTALL
ment plan with seven years to finish
the payments andh is pretty sure
that he can accomplish that. He re-
ports eighteen or twenty acres of
potatoes, eighteen acres of wheat,
twenty acres of hay. He bought
forty acres of land at $50 an acre
in 1922. He Is very proud of the
opportunities he has here.
Paul H. Troutner has eighteen
acres of potatoes and has storage
room 30x60 feet in size; he has
Ltwenty-six acres of wheat, five acres
of oats and twenty acres of hay. He
has strawberries, raspberries, rhu-
barb, horse radish, asparagus and
considerable flowers at his home.
His son Paul, Jr., and wife live on
the place and they are all working
together.
Felix Grimaud is on the Warren
Switzler place and reports fourteen
acres of potatoes and has storage
for about four hundred sacks. He
has thirty acres of grain and thirty
acres of hay.