The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-24

fellows ignore that principle. Cut
ting $25 from the price of an
article selling for $3.50 may bring
several times as many buyers and
people who are smart enough to in
vent and manufacture good thing
and shrewd enough to advertise it
successfully, are shrewd enough to
make the price sufficiently reason
able to attract buyers and give good
values that bar out competition Of
any others who might make the
article in small quantities.
The old saying that a patented
article costs more than one that is
not patented is not true; and the
old saying that an advertised article
costs more than the one that is not
advertised is not necessarily true for
the same reasOns-quantity produc-
tion and quantity shipment, delivery
and sales make tne difference in
favor Of the patented, advertised
article.
The Idaho Grimm Growers asso-
citation demonstrated scarifying for
hundreds Of school teachers at their
warehouse during the annual insti-
tute last October, and back came
orders for seed from peopleeto whom
the teachers explained this new
method of getting a perfect stand of
a better plant. The teachers have
probably explained that matter to
thousands of pupils during the year,
and opened the way for young farm
ers to apply the principle of perfect
stand, for alfalfa and many other
kinds of crops. The Blackfoot
Potato Growers association demon
strated automatic sorting Of pota-
toes to the teachers and they hung
around it like people usually do
when given new thought to apply
to an important subject. In October
Of this year, Blackfoot will have an
other opportunity to do something
for better agriculture by teaching it
to the teachers.
James Nielsen lives at Kimball
and has twenty-five acres of pota-
toes and storage for about 1900 or
1000 sacks; he has fifteen acres of
grain and fifteen acres of hay.
w. v. Taylor lives at Kimball and
has eleven acres of potatoes and
has storage room for three or four
hundred sacks and may build some
more. He has ten acres of beets,
seventeen acres Of grain, twenty
acres of hay and some pasture. Mr..
Taylor says that the Idaho farmers
plant their crops later than almost
any other farmers in the same lati-
tude, and with government reports
showing how much of the different
crops are being planted in other
districts he thinks the Idaho Farm
ers by keeping track of the crop
reports might select their crops SO
that they would not do like they
have done this year, plant large
acreage of potatoes when other
states are also planning large acre
age.
Walter Burkman lives west Of
Firth on the west side of Snake
river and has thirty acres of pota-
toes, thirteen acres of grain and
fifteen acres of hay. He has storage
for about half of his potato crop and
is building another potato cellar. He
built potato cellar 30x50 feet in
1921.
Ole Anderson lives in West Firth
and is building nine-room house
on his place with basement. Mr..
Anderson smilingly remarked that
he commenced the house about four
teen years ago, making the excava-
tion at that time and he has erected
the house during the past year, do
ing his own work, but has not get
finished the house. He has fifteen
acres of potatoes and plenty of
storage. He has eight acres of
grain, ten acres Of hay and about
twenty acres of pasture.
H. Anderson, Simon Stoneberg
and Axel Quist are operating the
Quist farm in West Firth. Mr..
Quist has been in Sweden since De-
cember, 1920 and is expected about
the first Of September with bride.
They have about thirty acres of po-
tatoes and storage for about $500
sacks and are planning to build an
other potato cellar. They have
thirty-two acres of grain and twenty
acres of hay. Mrs. Short and family,
who are living at the place, Mrs.
Short doing the housekeeping, are
planning to return to their former
home in Michigan this fall.
H. G. Sundquist is again operat-
ing his big farm at West Firth, after
having lived for a while in Black
foot. He has fifty-two acres of
wheat that is very heavy yield,
eighteen acres of potatoes, thirty
acres Of hay. He has storage for his
potatoes and in fact has storage for
everything else about the place. He
has a large barn, machine shed, a
machine shop, garage, a poultry
house, a hog house and even wood
house for keeping the stove wood
dry. He chops up wood in the
winter for summer 11se He hoe