The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-11

A. G. Christensen place two years
ago. He is not planting any beets,
but will plant twenty acres OF pota-
toes. He sold two car loads for 9
at a dollar when the market was
about go cents. He thinks 1t pays to
keep the potato crop in good cond1-
ton even if he never sold any for
seed, and this last sale gave him a
profit for that.
C. D. Shoemaker bought the Israel
Butt place Of t%hirty-eight acres, east
| Of Groveland. Mr.. Butt has moved
to Roberts, Idaho. Mr.. Shoemaker
is planting five acres Of beets and
! ten of potatoes.
Orla Beasley has sold his place to
John Mangum and has built a house
on the east end of the original
Beasley farm. He is raising some
cattle and has most Of the place IN
alfalfa. He is not raising any beets
or potatoes. IL u w
James Christensen Jr. has eleven
| acres Of potatoes but no sugar beets.
Mr.. Christensen does not think certi-
fication OF seed adds much value to
potatoes. He thinks that If the po-
tato seed is alright and what II
ought to be, it does ont grow any
better If certified. He saio he knew
of an instance where a man had sole
> his crop of potatoes for seed anc
then the farm bureau told him tina
he might as we'll have had them
certified, that If he had just come III
and asked for 1t they would have
, certified his seed. Mr.. Christensen
does not think much of that kind Of
, certiication.
Mrs. Beasley the widow of |. L
7 Beasley still lives on the old farm
I and her son-in-law Mr.. Beck is op
T Grating 1t.
Mrs. Chris Nygard had a hospita
experience at Pocatello recently ant
! is now at home recuperating. Mr.
Nygard's place is on the south sid
G of the road and the canal where the.
/ run parallel and he has to cross tn
6 canal to get to his place. He put
+ bridge across it a good while az
and then found it was not stron'
enough to be safe for a separate
O and he built another bridge tina
9 cost him $3.50. Nygard has twelv
row of raspberries, the rows bein!
nine rods long. He took $500 wort
of fruit off of them in 1921. Tha
9 is about an eighth of an acre OF Ian
and at that rate the productio,
seems to be about $4,000 per acre.
A.. D. Hale bought 1000 Whit
ri r oL;o1zo %hic cnrtnO and h1
q lost about rs per cent OF them l
two months. He has 200 hens an
this is his second year in the poultr
9 business. He say it looks encourae
ing and as he gets to know nj
h market he thinks he can marke
e them to better advantage. Last yea
g his chicks grew up and one OF tn
n pullets began laying in four month
and twenty-one days. The other
followed along at different interval
g The time when they begin laying d.
e ponds on their care and feed. Hig
y feeding gets them to laying earle
n This year he marketed all OF h
cockerals when they were ninet
days old and they brought him 9
cents each, Weighing about a poun
IS and a half. He thinks he can mark
them to better advantage hereaftt
ID due to the experience he has had.
10 Joseph Worthen has what W;
r. once the Hart place, between Grow
land and Blackfoot and he is raisir
to four acres of beets and sixteen acr'
lg Of potatoes.
POrterviI1e Farms !
stl Dell Taylor Is planting five acr'
by of potatoes, five of beets and n;
ce twenty-seven acres of hay. .. J
re Goss, who has been working L
IS, Taylor plans to return to his non
at Garden City, Kan. about the mi
,e die or last Of May. His mother