The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-09-07

ing our own seeds from the garden
is good way to get abundance OF
garden planted, and without any ex-
pense for seeds. On too many
farms the children are not assigned
any definite tasks to look after and
be responsible for, and they do not
grow up responsible for or inter
ested in any particular part of the
farm. The child that is assigned TO
the task of harvesting the garden
seeds and encouraged to report
every evening or once week on the
gain of the day or week, will ma
life little more interesting than
merely doing what it is told to 40
from enc hour to the next. That IS
net giving the child responsibility
that is taking away the opportunity
for it to take responsibility, and In
too many cases it becomes merely
'nagging,' and the child gets tired
of being bossed and hates to Work,
thinking that that is the only way
work comes.
E. A. Edwards is real estate
r. j. Bennett, and in these times the
real estate business has settled down
to answering questions and operat-
ing an information bureau, so Mr..
Edwards decided to go out and OPP
crate one of their farms that had no
tenant He moved to a place just
above Firth, formerly the home OF
w. B. Jones, and among other
things, is raising a tract of five and
a half acres of Russell potatoes. lie
planted certified seed and has under
taken to give them good care all
season. When we wished the place
he and his son were carefully rogue
ing the field, taking out all weak
plants and those that did not seem
to be standard in any respect. He
said he came on the place rather
late in the spring, and plowed up
some alfalfa and planted these po-
tatoes on the nineth of June. The
field looked very promising, but ne
said he had not made any tests to
see what the yield is likely to be-
They all looked so good he was con-
cerned only in getting the poor hills
and the weeds all out. He was not
worrying about the price he could
get for certified seed for Russets
raised in this way.
A. Written has bought the j. D.
Kendall place about three miles
northeast of Blackfoot and has
moved in. His son Frank and
family also live there for the present
and Mr.. Kendall has moved to the
Belle place east of Wapello.
Walton NARROW lives south OF
Wapello and has some unusual
fruits. Everything seems to bear
for him, and the exhibit OF greatest
interest is block of black English
currants. There are thirty bushes
and every one of them loaded with
fruit nearly the size of gooseberries
and in such numbers that the bushes
lie on the ground, unable to hold the
crop. Mr.. NARROW lives on rural
route three, Blackfoot.
A Sandy Enterprise
Fred G. Twitchell is farming a
piece of land he bought among the
| sand hills northeast of Blackfoo'
| some years ago. He had such a
series of ups and down we asked
him to let us tell our readers. some
, of it.
The Twitchells used to live out in
the Presto country, and some six or
seven years ago Fred's father was
operating livery stable where the
Three-A Garage now stands. He
thought that If he had some more
horses and the right kind of help he
could make block of money, so he
got Fred to go into partnership with
| him. Fred had some horses and We
hicles including a faithful horse
| named Trixie that he used for break
ing colts and for all the very partic-
ular Jobs, where reliability was
needed. 1t took just six months Tor
Fred to lose everything he had ex-
cepting Trixie and pony, and then
he remembered that his wife had adj
vised against moving to town at all
They moved back to the country and
he went to breaking horses for peo-
pie. He had chance to buy eighty
acres in the sand hills for $4,000,
and he wanted it, tho he had nc
money, excepting a little he had
made breaking colts. This was in
1917, the year we went into the war
The land lay back half mile from
the road and had but little improve
ments on it. He borrowed $7O0
from the bank and, made the first
payment on the land, then went on
breaking colts and while breaking
them he did what work he could on
his farm. He had to work old Trixie
pretty hard, but Trixie was game
old sport. Fred saw chance to
homestead an adjoining forty acres
so he took in that additional terri
tory. He also planted a lot of pota.
toes. He made money on them and
paid off the debt at the bank and
secured loan to finish paying fo1
the place and finance him for big
venture in potatoes. He did SO well
on them that he could have paid OIL
his mortgage, but it was not due and
he was enjoying the sensation or
"'Come in, the waters fine"
Gambled in Spuds
When Mr.. Twitchell got his
money deposited in the bank he put