The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-10
What the Farmers
Are Doing
Continued from page three


and some other crops.
Hans Peterson and sons establish.
ed store at Rockford six years age
and it is managed by ]. A. Peter
son. They report good, steady
business through good times and
hard times.
The Boise-Payette Lumber Com
pany have a yard at Rockford and
report very little sale for lumber
now.
Rockford has an empty garage
and some mechanic is invited to
open up business there.
D. w. Barrowman has 120 acres
in Rockford, formerly known as the
Reese place. He has eighteen acres
of potatoes, thirty or thirty-five
acres Of grain, twenty acres of hay
The farm now belongs to Mrs. Kin
ney, of Blackfoot. He has no stor-
age for potatoes.
w. T. Roy bought eighty acres OF
Fred Weston for $4,000 with water
right in the Peoples Canal, and a
small house on the place. There
were seventeen acres of land under
cultivation. The price was $56.25
per acre and he is buying an addi-
tional water right worth $1,000 in
the American Falls canal. He has
eight acres of potatoes and no stor-
age for them. He has thirty acres OF
grain, twenty-five acres of hay, a
quarter of an acre of beans, rasp-
berries, rhubarb, horse radish and
other things in the garden. He has
rhubarb and horse radish to share
with the neighbors.
J. H. Farrell has eight acres OF
potatoes and no storage. He has
twelve acres of grain and twenty.
one acres of hay. Mr.. Farrell re.
ports that he does not like the coun'
try and is going to move away.
Leo Fackrell is on the Abber
CAST place southwest of Rockford
He has four acres of potatoes bu1
no storage. He thinks he may built
a cellar. He has three acres o.
beets, thirty acres of grain and foul
acres of hay.
H. G. Hardy has part of the Swar
Berg place, southwest of Rockford
and has nineteen acres of potatoes
and storage for about 1000 sacks
He has 100 acres of wheat, fifteer
acres of hay. and six acres of barley
M. E. Miller is leasing the D. w
Powers farm of about $50 acres
He reports twenty acres of potatoe:
and storage for all of them; fifty
acres of grain and .thirty-five acre!
of hay.
Alvin Berg is farming some O.
Swan Berg's place and has fort.
acres of wheat, ten acres of oats
five acres of potatoes and no storage
J. F. Miller is leasing part o
Swan Berg's place and has twenty
five acres of potatoes and has stor
age capacity for five or six carload
and will build more storage room i
necessary. He has seventy acres o
grain and thirty-five acres of hay.
Abe Scott has forty acres h,
bought of Swan Berg in 1920 a
$125 an acre. There were no build
ings on the place, but there was {
water right for it. He is four an(
a half miles from Pingree and hal
mile from the beet dump. He re
ports sixty-seven acres of potatoes
fifteen acres Of beets, seven or eigh
acres of hay and storage room fol
about two carloads of potatoes.
G. E. Baker is leasing some lane
and has about fourteen acres of pc
tatoes, thirty-three acres of grair
and fourteen acres of hay. He has
storage. room for about 100 sacks
of potatoes.
Hugo and SEVERN Johnson are
leasing the Knodle place of 100 acres
and report twelve to fifteen acres oi
potatoes, eighty-six acres of grain
and about ten acres Of hay. They
have twenty-five acres of Grimm al.
falfa that they are raising for seed
They have two very fine Jersey cows.
George Warren lives on the place
belonging to w. D. Vincent. He and
Mrs. Warren are elderly people and
have been on the Vincent place for
about four years. He reports two
acres of potatoes and plenty of stor-
age; twelve acres of grain, forty
acres of hay, twelve hives of bees
and plenty of good rhubarb on the
place and plenty to share with those
who want to get a start.
Mr.. Warren reports an incident OF
an employe trying to introduce the
union laws and manage his farm
work for him. He was haying and
had little crew at work and men
pitching hay on the wagons in the
field. One Of the men had arrived
in the morning after two loads OF
hay had been delivered at the stack
and offered no apology for being
late, but when six o'clock came the
last wagon was just arriving on the
meadow to receive a load Of hay
This man who had arrived so late
in the morning refused to pitch any
hay on the wagon because it was
quitting time. He further informed
the driver of the wagon that thai
wagon was outlawed and that 81
long as he worked on the place he
would pitch no hay upon the wager
that came to be loaded after quit
ting time. Mr.. Warren made ar
rangements to get along withou
this man and the rest of the mel
were loyal to his interests. If al
of the crew had been like that Mr.
Warren would have been at thei
mercy and would have had to uui
farming or do just about what the