The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-15
country, but the others end like
blind switches on q railroad.

JdmcS 7edliey mas twenty acre
farm on one of these roads leading
to what was once the Ray Pepper
farm. Long before that 1t was the
Caps place and originally 1t was the
Emerson homestead. Mr.. Heatly is
engaging in the sheep business and
has fifteen acres of hay, four acres
of grain with alfalfa seeded in 1t. He
raises some small fruit and vege-
tables in his orchard and garden.
d. w., Knighton has what was
once called the Lewis place of
twenty-five and three-fourths acres,
just north of the sugar factory. 1t
belongs to G. w. Rishel. He is rails
ing five acres of potatoes, eleven
acres of beets and has some orchard.
John c. Stanger has twenty acres
that he is buying on the installment
plan from Ira Wilde, who moved to
Ogden. Mr.. Stanger has fifteen
acres Of potatoes.
j. V. Birmingham bought the Ray
Pepper place, formerly the Capps
and Emerson place of 1881 acres
for $25,20O. He made the purchase
in 1920. There is a very good house
on the place, substantial log
stable, a large orchard and various
/ other improvements. He is raising
five acres Of potatoes, six acres Of
apples, seventy-five acres of hay,
forty-two acres of grain. He has
some pasture of mixed grasses. Com
putting the price of his land on the
basis of acres, there being 1881
the price would be $3.50, but Mr..
Birmingham says there are really
1881 acres constituting the farm
and the other thirty acres was
thrown in, but is not regarded as of
much Importance. That makes the
J price $170 an acre.
G. W. Rishel has fifteen acres OF
beets that sprduted properly, but
because the ground was crusted they
did not all come thru and he has not
good stand. He has ten acres OF
potatoes, eighteen acres of grain,
twenty of hay
Otto Mai has a farm above the
sugar factory leading toward Snake
river, which he bought of Albert
Deitz, twenty-five and half acres
| at $500 per acre. There is small
house, but very good one and
stable for twelve animals, granary,
an orchard of forty-five CHEEKY trees,
, some apples, some strawberries and
raspberries. Mr.. Mai is raising eight
aces of potatoes, five of grain and
five and half of hay.
A Model Farm
Henry OFT sold a farm at Shelley
in 1919 and bought forty acres OF
Carl Neff for $500 an acre. 1t has a
good house, a stable not so good, a
potato, cellar and we'll. It required
considerable grading and Mr.. OFT is
making many improvements about
the place. He fenced the whole
place with woven wire fencing, made
some partition fences of the same
is building good gats and getting
| things in shape so that he can turn
hogs or sheep in any part Of the
| farm he wants to and keep them
| out of the rest. He has twenty
three acres of wheat, eight acres OF
oats, seven acres of barley and some
hay. He keeps everything neat and
clean about the place and plants
some peas with the oats so they will
ripen and fall off on the ground be-
fore the oats is harvested, then he
turns the hogs in on the stubble and
they gather up the peas along with
the rest of the grain.
There were sixteen Poland Chinas
in the hog yards, all round and fat
and weighed from 200 to 375
pounds each. There were twenty
two pigs about six weeks old and all
of them were fat and round. All OF
the hogs are very tame and things
| were clean and there is an air OF
contentment about everything. In
the yard, where the large hogs were
there was a bathing pool for them
| large enough for several hogs to lie
in at time and with hard bottom
There was some hog dip in the water
and as one walks around one smells
the scent of chemicals. The plan OF
this was to keep them clean and free
from disease and vermin. The water
troughs were supplied with clean
water from the pump, and while
there was water always before them
they were not given enough feed tC
leave any of it in the troughs. Mr.
OFT had feed mill with different
burrs or plates so that he could choI
any kind of grain with them and by
changing the plates he can grin(
wheat and make whole wheat flour
Mr.. OFT says his -four is always made
from good wheat, we'll cleaned anG
famed and that it is decidedly bet
ter than the whole wheat he buys in
the market. He has a machine fol
chopping alfalfa into alfalfa mea
and he mixes that, two parts alfalfa
to one part of chopped oats to give
to the hogs. After it is all mixed
together and put into the troughs hi
pours over it mixture Of about two
parts of syrup to ten parts Of water
He gets the syrup from the sugar
factory at a very low rate there be
ing a by-product from the manu-
facture of sugar which they sell fol
such purposes. A similar mixture il
given to the pigs but they are give1
considerable milk also. Mr.. OFT hal
gasoline engine for driving thu
different machines and his plan is tt
consume the hay and grain and hi
Gull potatoes in the manufacture o
fine pork. He sorts his potatoes
carefully and throws out those tina
have spots in them so that the hog
do not eat any food but what 4
good.