The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-03
What the Farmers
Are Doing
Continued from page three

leasing land on the reservation for
three years and could not make 1t
pay. He said the crops would not
produce we'll even tho they had
plenty Of water and all the condt-
tions seemed to be favorable.
George Bankhead has twenty-five
acres of potatoes, ten acres of grain,
thirteen acres of hay and strawber-
ries, raspberries, rhubarb, multiplier
onions, gooseberries ,curarnts and
other things. He lives near the
river and has. few acres of rich
sandy loan that he would like to
see somebody take and use for
melon patches. He says he will sell
or lease the ground cheap and give
every encouragement he can to any
one willing to undertake that in
dustry. Mr.. Bankhead's address is
Blackfoot, R. F. D. No. 2.
E. r. Turpin has twenty acres of
land of his own and is renting some
Of his father, Edward Turpin, about
thirteen acres. He has six acres of
potatoes, seven acres of beets, eight
acres of grain and about five acres of
hay.
D. L. Broadhead has eighty acres
of land near the river and is raising
sixteen acres of potatoes, forty-two
acres of grain, twenty acres Of hay,
raspberries, rhubarb, horse radish,
bantam corn and has several acres
of rich sandy loan near the river
that is we'll protected with timber
and there are natural hotbeds ex-
tending for some distance along the
river bank, where he has started his
own garden truck under favorable
conditions. He does not do enough
truck gardening to make it worth
while to continue operating his
natural hotbeds. He says he will
sell or lease some of this land at
terms advantageous to anyone who
wants to start the melon industry or
a truck farm. Mr.. Broadhead's ad-
dress is Blackfoot route 2.
Ed Turpin has seven acres of po-
tatoes, ten acres of beets, seven
acres of grain, five acres of hay.
N. A. Goodwin has sixty acres of
land and is raising ten acres of po-
tatoes, nine acres of beets, ten acres
Of grain, has strawberries, rasp-
berries, rhubarb, bantam corn and
other things.
w. A. Goodwin has twenty acres
of land and is raising six acres OF
potatoes, four acres of beets and the
rest in hay and grain. He has rasp-
berries, rhubarb, horse radish,
bantam corn and other things.
Nelson brothers are Salt Lake
people who purchased the farm that
was originally improved by Joe
Acuff between Riverside an
Thomas. They have fifteen acres of
potatoes, four and a half of beets
and the rest in hay and grain.
W. X. Nelson is one of the Nelson
brothers and has been giving con-
siderable attention to breeding the
Golden Wyandot chickens. He says
he likes them because they are
hardy, stand the cold weather. are
beautiful and good size. His ad-
dress is Blackfoot route Q.
L. ]. Turpin has fifty acres of land
and Is raising twelve acres of pota-
toes, eight acres of beets, ten acres
of hay, ten acres of grain and a
quarter Of an acre of onions. His
land sub-irrigates and where he can
cultivate he does very little irrigat-
ing.
Hans Christensen has five acres
of potatoes, seven acres of beets,
ten acres of grain and twelve acres
of hay. Mr.. Christensen lives back
from the main road near Snake
river and has graded a boulevard
down to his place. He built ilne
house few years ago and has
planted Virginia Creeper, climbing
roses and many varieties of flowers
about the place. Mr.. and Mrs.
Christensen both take a great inter-
est in identifying their home and
are hoping that somebody will go
into the melon industry on some of
the rich bottom lands protected, by
the timber along Snake river.
D. c. Wood sold part of his farm
during the boom, but had to take 1t
back and is farming it himself this
year in connection with his son
Milton. He has raspberries, rhu-
barb, berries and various fruits.
They also have considerable aspar-
agus to spare for neighbors who
want to get start.
H. C. Taylor has $50 acres of land
about four miles east Of Blackfoot
and is raising twenty-five acres Of
potatoes, twenty-eight of mangels,
thirty acres of grain, twenty acres Of
hay and has the rest in pasture. He
has about 100 head of hogs, fifty
cotswold sheep, forty-two of short
horn cattle, about ninty turkeys,
thirty ducks, 800 chickens.
Jameston is a community situated
in the northeast corner of Bingham
county north, of Goshen and Shelley.
Jameston is Ike Goshen in having
some Of the finest farm lands in the
county, tho it is little more sandy
and has been difficult to put under
cultivation in some places on &C
count Of the drifting sand. 1t has
good many tracts that would be
suitable Tor raising watermelons and
muskmelons if they can be grown
successfully in this county and a
number of farmers in the sand belt
seem to have demonstrated that they
can be raised successfully even with
out the use of hot houses in which
to start the plants in the spring. All
thru the summer this sandy land
gets quite hot during the day and
holds its heat thru the night. James