The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-18
What The Farmers Are Doing
Rural Route No. 1
Chapter III

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James Worthen on the Hart place
has four acres of beets, fifteen OF po-
tatoes, seven of wheat, three OF oats
and seventy of hay. =.
Elmer Hansen has a place south
of Groveland on the river road and
is planting eight acres of potatoes,
and no beets. He treats his seed
with slack lime before planting.
Mr.. Turner bought the place OF
Reynolds Cohoon, who came up
from Salt Lake City, tried farming
for a while, got disguised with 1t
and went back. Mr.. Cohoon was an
office man and found it difficult to
transplant himself to farming.
WI Rural Route No..3
James McKie bought of w. H,
Reynolds who had tried farming a
few years and then moved to Poca-
tello. He has seventy-six acres in
the place, but only about forty acres
Of good farming land. The rest IL
sand hills that has not been graded
He is planting ten acres OF potatoes
and NO beets.
R. c. auckland has twenty acres
that he bought of Willard Mcmillan
in 1919. Mcmillan moved to some
farm further up the country. Mr.
| auckland is planting six acres o.
| potatoes and no beets and says M
has an opportunity to contract hi
1922 potatoes at Is cents a hundred
| He thinks that is as good as RAISING
beets at $1O>a ton; he is also raisint
some red clover for seed and ha'
some land In hay and pasture. HI
dips his seed potatoes. Mr.. Buck
land planted one acres of onions OF
his sandy land and on windy day
thew blew out; he thinks he will
plant about half of the acer over ant
has also quite a crop Of peas. MI
auckland says he got some servic
out of the wind not long ago BY hav
ing it blow about a foot OF his htgl
land that he was intending to pull
off with a scraper, it went up in tn
4 air and he could not tell where ]
came down. If anybody finds hal
an acre of sandy soil deposited o.
his farm up in the Wicks district ]
probably belongs to R. c. Buckland
but he doesn't want it.
J. M. Woodland reports that nue.
of his alfalfa winter killed and h
is blowing it up and putting 1t int
other crops. He planted two acre
of onions and a lot of carrots an
parsnips and other garden truck.
An Example Of Success
Nels Nelson bought eighty acre
of land of w. C. Brown in 1915 an
moved onto it with his family an
went to grading it. 1t was mostl
sand hills and hollows and they ha
to make a farm of it by grading
There was $4,000 mortgage on tn
farm at that time and it Is stil
mortgaged, but here are some Of tn
things.they have accomplished. In
first year they had very little groun
! to plant and raised very little crops
but they did not waste anything an
they all worked. The writer dis
covered them there in 1915 and the
were raising quite a little tract Q
beets. There were three or fou
good sized daughters and they wer
helping their father about the far1
work and the beet thinning. Tha
year they raised a pretty good GRO
and did considerable grading on tn
farm. They were living in a hous
that they had built for temporar
purposes and in the years that TO-
lowed they were grading and fixin
I'D the site of their future home
, They planted some trees on tn
southwest, for a grove and wine
break, and in the years that hav
followed they have continued tn
!, grading of the farm and Effected tn
buildings for their permanent hom'
The girls went to school in winte
and some of them worked on tn
farm in m Some got pos
tions and worked for salaries. Th
old house is abandoned now an
they are living in the new hous
1t is a combination Of the America
bungalow and the Swedish noun
ain home built on a concrete found;
ton with many windows and til
long extention on the roof at tn
caves to keep out the hot summt
sun and to allow the low winte
!, sun to shine into the house. Thel
is a full basement built partly undr'
|, ground and partly above grount
, The basement walls are built of col
: crete and there is a large sunny col
:, crete porch. The wood work Is a
nicely finished and he has cabine
built in, and everything very coz
:. He has planned it for a model
house, but has not yet installed II
, water system and bath tub. M
: Nelson does the carpenter work hin
self, being a contractor before l
came here.
: He has built a barn 35x40 in siz
/. arranged for horses on one sled ar
. COWS on the other with automat
hay feeders for the horses al
everything arranged to keep Il
stock comfortable and everythiI
neat and clean. A rope making m
chine is attached to the beam in Il
barn and when Mr.. Nelson needs
rope he attaches the ball Of bindir
Irvine to the machine and turns o
the amount Of rope he wants in
I few minutes. There is a machil
shed and the machinery is in 1t VIII
not being used. There is a VOL
shop and tool house with a fine a
ray Of tools. The pig pens are cle'
and we'll drained and there is a fu
mace and cooking tank for cookil
feed for the hogs. There is a b
notato cellar on the place and q