The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-01
What The Farmers Are Doing
CHAPTER v.

they could use, made it into sauce
and pies, and canned and given
away rhubarb and thinks it is al
most a crime to have it go to waste.
The Republican writer wonders why
so many people buy rhubarb at the
stores or go without it when it is so
easily raised. 1t grows up early in
the spring and needs only water
and fertilizer and cultivation to in
sure it's annual appearance at that
part Of the season when it is so
hard for the housekeeper to find
anything appetizing. 1t is at once
a delicious food and tonic, such as
people need in the spring. Another
suggestion is that people raise some
horse radish in the same way and
stop the purchase of the more ex-
pensive mustard for spring use.
Horse radish, once set, comes up an
nually when the snow goes off.
l.. H. Fink lived for many years
on the old William Howell place and
then moved to a farm northeast of
Blackfoot. A year or two ago he
moved back to the old place and is
engaging in the sheep business. He
has rented most of his land this
year. He had his sheep sheared this
year at Minidoka and is now moving
them to the foothills of the upper
Blackfoot country.
John Casio owns what was for
many years the John Hutchinson
place east of the F. S. Adams home
stead. He says he has seven acres
of potatoes, thirteen acres Of grain
and seven Of hay. Mr.. Hutchinson
moved to Sterling.
Arthur l.. Wilson is operating the
eighty acres comprised in his
fathers, l.. D. Wilson's, homestead.
His mother still lives on the place,
his father /. died last winter and
Arthur is carrying on the enterprise
started by his father. There are
seven and a half acres of prune trees
and the same amount of apple trees
on the place, and he sprays the
orchard annually and keeps it in
good condition. He dips his seed
potatoes, and raises the early Irish
Cobblers for seed. He has twenty
five acres of potatoes, five Of beets,
twelve of grain, twenty of hay and
one and half of beans. Out of last
years crop he shipped two car loads
of potatoes at 2 cents pound when
the market was ranging from Al
cents to $3.50.
Vicinity of Blackfoot
Ralph Dixey is Shoshone Indian,
who lives about mile below Black
foot on the Yellowstone highway.
He has 224 acres in his farm and
has twenty acres of potatoes, sixty
of grain and 1870 of hay. He has
some orchard and good buildings on
his place and has two fine cars, one
for the family and one for himself
for business and pleasure. 1t is a
Suits Bear-cat of the sport model
and runs like the wind. Mr.. Dixey
has several hundred cattle and is an
officer and member of the board of
directors in the Indian Cattlemen's
association.
w. w. Kirkpatrick is leasing the
Bingham place east Of Blackfoot,
adjoining the asylum farm; it is
now owned by c. E. Harris and they
are planting it all to potatoes, about
fifteen acres. They used certified
seed which Mr.. Harris bought of
somebody at Wapello. They dip all
the seed.
G. E. Harris has been receiver of
the United States land office at
Blackfoot for the past eight years,
and bought the Morningside poultry
farm east of Blackfoot from Fehnel
and Kirchner. They were breeding
pure bred chickens and selling eggs,
but Mr.. Harris discontinued the
breeding and devoted most of his
energies to raising incubated chicks
that he shipped in, and to producing
eggs for the local market. He ship
ped in 1900 day-old chicks this year,
500 of them from Caldwell, Idaho,
and 1000 from some place in Mis-
souri,. All of those from Missouri
were Matched from eggs laid by
White Leghorn hens that had a
record of $50 eggs year or better.
Mr.. Harris keeps couple of regis
tered Jersey cows.
1. Myse is Japanese, who is leas-
ing the Willeford place and reports
forty-five acres of potatoes and
twenty acres of hay. When the
writer saw him he was working with
a new Aspinwall potato planter and
it was not planting just right. He
said something about it needed a
good cussing, but that he could not