The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-25

Yland parceled out to five differen,
renters: Albert w. Written, A. "A
Durrant, J. c. Jensen, John Hammer
and s. D. Kendall. Kendall has si1
acres of beets, Rurrant four acres Of
potatoes, Written twenty-five acres
Hammer ten acres of potatoes anG
ten acres of wheat, Jenson twenty
acres of wheat. Mr.. Christensen II
raising six acres of beets, twelve Of
potatoes, twenty-five of wheat, ten
OF oats, fifteen of hay.
Experience in Feeding Cows
! He fed 100 head Of cows last win.
ter on the Spread" He took the
cows to feed on the same terms that
others were feeding steers and found
it was a different situation and could
not be handled the same way. II
none Of the cows had been bred or
all returned before the calves were
born it might work out all right, but
in case of calves being born
there is loss of weight of from fifty
to hundred pounds Of after birth
which is lost by the feeder. Mr..
Christensen decided that the only
way he could feed cows without los
ing was to have them weighed back
to the owner before the calves were
born. When Mr.. Christensen has
fed beef trying to supply the local
butchers he says he has found diff
ficulty in marketing them at times
because the butchers or some OF
them brought in cattle from a dis
lance to supply their markets and
kept him waiting indefinitely for an
opportunity to market his. He
thinks the local butchers should try
harder to take care of the local pro-
ducers.
Mr.. Christensen has learned an
other thing that feeders should be
careful about If they use beet pulp.
He says that after feeding beet pulp
il they discontinue it altogether and
60 to feeding grain without the
pulp, the cattle do not gain anything
for about three weeks. The pulp is
such a bulky feed it makes the
animals, and especially the cows,
what stock men call pot-bellied, and
when they change to the more con-
centrated food q general shrinking
OF that condition and even tho the
animal is taking on fat the weight is
just about the same for two or three
weeks. He warns feeders against
getting stock in this condition by
feeding largely on hay and pulp and
no grain especially If they are going
to change from pulp to grain.
Experience in Milking Cows
Joe D. Jensen is back from Cali
fornia and brought some experience
with him. During the fore part Of
the winter he had some correspond
ence with some one in Los Angeles
working in a dairy and with another
man who was operating dairy, and
he concluded he would like to have
employment there. He was led to
believe that the men who did the
milking received 81 a day for their
work and that looked good enough
to Joe so he went to Los Angeles to
accept employment. When he got
there he found that the mixers had
to get up at 2 o'clock in the morning
and then be on the job again at 2
O'Clock in the afternoon. The best
offer he could get was $40 a month
and board so he did not go to work
but asking about this 81 day he
learned that that was the price they
had been paying in better times
when milking by the gallon, a
custom which they have discon-
tinued. Joe went about touring the
country and on his way home he
went out as far as Green River east
and Huntington, Ore. on the west,
looking for better place than
Blackfoot and did not find it. With
the opening Of spring he came home
and went to work again at the old
place.
A. A. Durrant is living on the old
Merrill farm near the asylum farm,
a place containing twenty acres. He
also handles ten and a half acres be-
longing to Wesley Lantis lying east
Of that. On the two places he has
eight acres and half Of grain, one |
and half of beets and six acres of
potatoes.
Helping the Roads
G. G.. Adams bought the Albert
place in 1920. 1t consists
If forty acres and the price paid was
e312.50 per acre. 1t is about four
niles above town, has a good house
Ind good barn on it, is well fenced,
las good water right and is all
lnder cultivation. Mr.. Adams has
lone some road grading in front of
lis house at his own expense. He is