The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-29

rose called "The Thousa n d
Beauties" It stands on a support
of frame work and the bush fills a
space probably five by ten feet in
size and bears something like a
thousand roses about the first of
July. The leaves of the plant are
rich waxy green and the whole
thing constitutes a bower of great
beauty. At the Wilkie farm all the
gates are well built and hung so that
they swing clear and easy. Besides
the gates that are made for vehicles
to pass thru are small gates for foot
men and they too have good latches,
good hinges and are we'll set so that
person passing thru the many
partition fences has oily to swing
the gate a little and pass thru
quickly and easily.
r. F. Wilkie has one hundred
acres of land and is raising twenty
acres Of potatoes, forty acres of bar
ley, three acres of wheat and some
hay. He has strawberries, raspber-
ries, rhubarb, tomatoes and the like
in his orchard. Mr.. Wilkie built q
fine modern house on his farm in
1918 and put in a Delco lighting
plant in 1920. There is basement
and up stairs in the house and many
built-in cupboards, ward robes, book
shelves, cabinents and the like. He
has many buildings on his place
housing stock and machinery. There
is a large hog house and some small
individual hog houses, a machine
shed, work shop, garage, granary,
pump house, horse barn. horse
stables, chicken houses and then
there is machinery for chopping and
preparing the feed for them. Mr.
Wilkie has cement mixer operated
by gasoline engine and wherever
he wants any cement work done on
the place he builds it himself. Mr..
Wilkie has an ice house, keeps a
good supply of ice and has built
in refrigerator in the kitchen.
A Dairyman Talks
) Fred Kleinschmidt, the man who
operates the dairy just above Black
foot, in discussing the arrangement
of a good hog house and the floor
to be put in it, said that a cement
floor is the best thing for a hog house
that to overcome the hardness and
the GOODNESS. Of the floor, straw and
chaff should be used. Mr.. Klein
schmidt says he has lived for con-
siderable time in part of Nebraska
where much attention was given to
raising pure bred hogs and the
question of floors was settled long
ago by adopting cement and straw.
The straw should be changed once
a week and never allowed to remain
on the cement longer than two
weeks. Any other floor that they
ever tried was subject to be rooted
UP or getting filthy or both. The
cement floor never gathers filth if
people try to keep it clean, it can
always be easily sprinkled with dis
infectant When it is washed out
there is no chance for vermin or filth
to lodge anywhere about it.
;. A Japanese Farmer
Frank Skikashio has one farm on
Shelley route 1 and one at Firth
route 1. In 1919 he bought forty
acres Of Charles Wedding at 5000
an acre with no very valuable build
ings on it. The farm needed a great
deal of grading and he has expended
considerable putting it into condi-
ton so that it will water perfectly.
The same year he bought seventy
one acres of Oliver Christensen,
near Shelley at $500 per acre. 1t is
a mile from town and has very good
buildings. He is raising twenty-five
acres of potatoes and some hay and
grain.
Alma Dye is a man about thirty
years old who was troubled with hay
fever in his youth and never could
get rid of it while working on the
farm. The dust from weeds and
plants and the dust from the hay
and grain at harvest time kept him
suffering greatly. He has engaged
IN school teaching for a number of
years and is spending the summer
On the farm up at Firth.
James D. Dye is leasing ten acres
If William Dye and has it planted to
potatoes.
w. E. Johnson has six acres of
potatoes, five acres of grain, ten
acres of hay and same pasture. He
'aises raspebrries, rhubarb and
many other things in his garden and
s going to increase the amount of
'hubarb SO he can have some to sell. |
Mr.. Johnson can always sell rhubarb
1t some price that is profitable and
kinks that If a man had an acre of
t and organized some selling system
hat it would prove very profitable.
The yield is abundant, the weight is
heavy, every plant yields quite a |
bundle of it and it is a sure easy
,rop to produce. A man raising it
hould easily do as well as he would
'aising potatoes and gambling on
hem. He says he will divide roots !
md bulbs with neighbors who may
wish to get a start.
Canal Men Take Notice
William M. Dye has IT'S acres in
lis farm and is raising twenty acres