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

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and try to have 1t cabled to feed hi
relatives there.

Across the Road
Across the road and the canals
from where this Russian family live
and work, is the William Plant
place. He reports having taken
$1,000 from his orchard of 200 trees
last year, and says that whenever
the other folks pull up their apple
trees it only makes more money Tor
Plant, for he takes care OF his trees
and his fruit and turns them into
money. Mr.. Plant is putting out a
lot of roots and bulbs and shrubs
intended to produce good things for
somebody to eat, but he waved mis-
hand and said not to take notes on 1t
nor say anything about 1t. He has q
very fine collection of minerals and
souvenirs gathered from many lands
and gives interesting chapters of in
formation concerning them.
William C. Plant has twenty-five
acres of potatoes, no beets and some
hay and grain.
Z E. M. Snider lives just north of
Snake river bridge, and has some
orchard. He says he sprays IT twice
a year and takes care II 1t to keep
It in good condition. He has about
$50 trees and sells most Of the ap-
pies in the Lost river country, and
rises up his surplus and culls for
making cider and vinegar. He made
about fifteen barrels of cider last
year. The apple market last year
vas greatly aided by some buyers
coming in from Arkansas and buy
ing second rate apples such as most
1T the orchardists have here, and
shipping them south to sell to the
tniggers. They shipped out about
thirty-fve carloads and paid very
good prices for them. That cleaned
up the apple crop enough to allow
the sale Of the good apples at good
prices. MIR. Snider does not think
much Of the potato crop, and says he
can make more money raising COWS,
sheep and pigs to consume his other
crops on the farm.
Mrs. Snider devOtes considerable
time to raising chickens by the good
old method of Matching with hens.
She began the season with 125 hens
and has Matched about 500 chicks;
she has sold 700 Of them, mostly in
lots of fifty chicks accompanied by
q hen. They have thirty-five stands
of bees and some sheep and milk
cows and make a good living by be-
ing moderately busy thruout the
year.
The Bumgarner Island
C. w. Thompson of St. Anthony
owns the Bumgarner island east Of
the Snider farm and he and MI.
Snider have arranged a program for
making it yield something. They
are going to raise hay and grain and
corn and turn in hogs and sheep to
harvest it where it grows. They
will thus save all the costs of har-
vesting, stacking, thrashing, storing,
grinding and feeding, and hauling
out the fertilizer afterwards. The
stock will be healthier for having
this greater freedom of the fields
and doing as they please, eating
when they please and being in their
natural environment instead of in
pens and tramping around In
manure. Both men have faith in the
plan and they are going in On a
fifty-fifty basis to give it a trial.
AT O. F. Smith Nursery
Mrs. O. F. Smith is putting out
10000 strawberry plants and 5000
raspberry plants this spring. She
is planting ten acres of potatoes and
no beets. She is resetting her trNct
of peonies and does not expect to
have the crop up to it's old time
standard for a couple of years. She
has an automatic pumping plant to
supply water for the place and has
modernized the house with the hot
and cold water service, and hose for
the lawn.
Ray Coffman has twenty-five acres
that was carved from the o. F.
Smith place, and says he wishes he
could sell it. 1t is two miles from
town on mail and telephone line,
has good buildings and there must
be somebody looking for just such
a place.
Editor a Bum Adviser
Mrs. Hans Jensen reports that she
stepped into The Republican office
one day to pay for a want ad, when
potatoes were down to about so
cents, and casually enquired of the
editor whether the price Of potatoes
would come up again and he
promptly replied that they would,
but not this spring. She took the
tip and sold and then they jumped
up to $3.50 and dropped again, all Of
which proved the editor was a bum
adviser and annoyed Mrs. Jensen.
The editor defends by saying that he
thinks potatoes are taking on
strange habits anyhow.
Money in Spuds
Carl Hunzeker is planting four
teen acres of potatoes and no beets.
He has been sticking to spuds for
several years and is trying to get his
crop up to certifcation. Last year
they passed field inspection, but he
failed to do the final grading to be
entitled to certification. 1t was just
a matter of getting the work done,
and he did not get to it at the right
time. He has sold 1000 sacks from
his fourteen acres. Last year he
sold 1875 sacks Of seed to Enron
Yancey and this year Mr.. Yancey
came back for ESQ sacks to plant.
A Mr.. Herbst who bought seed Of
him reported raising 255 sacks per
acre from it. In 1915 Mr.. Hunzeker
made a 120-gallon tank for use in
dipping seed potatoes, and has used
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