The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-10

raised 10 sacks of potatoes to the
acre without irrigation.
E. Edwards is on the l. H. Alfred
place at Thomas, and has four acres
of potatoes and has storage for
about 900 sacks. He has IL acres
of beets, six acres of hay, and has
some pear and wild plum trees in
his orchard. He says the place
yielded $500 cash returns from the
pear trees last year but there are
but few pears this year.
E. A. Grover has IL acres of
potatoes and has storage room for
them. He has 20 acres of hay, half
an acre of onions, quarter of an
acre of raspberries, some bantam
corn, rhubarb, asparagus and multi
plier onions. They have lost fruit
and garden truck by not having wa
ter in the canal early enough in the
spring.
G. w. Olsen has ten acres of po-
tatoes and has storage for about 500
sacks. He has IL acres of beets
five of hay and some grain.
JOIN AuucISOH LIDS IL dSlCo VI Po-
tatoes and no storage. He has six
or seven acres of hay and some
other crops.
r. M. Morton has 80 acres of land,
but only IS under cultivation. He
has eight acres of potatoes and no
storage for most of them. He has
25 acres of grain.
V. A. Peterson has is acres Of
potatoes and has storage for 500
sacks and will provide more. He
has 21 acres of grain and % of hay.
Mrs. w. H. Thomas is daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. P. ]. Fjelsted,
and buried her husband recently.
She lives on farm which they
bought couple of years ago, lying
just west of what used to be the
John Watson ranch. Mrs. Thomas
is expecting to sell the farm.
Ed Mcbride has 80 acres of what
was formerly the John Watson
ranch and is raising ten acres of
potatoes and has storage for about
200 sacks and is building another
potato cellar. He has been hauling
some poles from Grave creek, fifty
miles away, for the frame work. Mr..
Mcbride has a small silo and an ice
house.
A. E. Walters has 80 acres of land
and is raising % acres of potatoes
and has no storage room. He has
ten acres Of grain and some hay.
N. P. Fackrell and his son Lewis
Fackrell are operating the farm to-
gether. They have been building u
herd of Jerseys for long time.
They have eight acres Of potatoes,
eight and one-half of beets, - of
grain, 40 of hay and Is of pasture.
They raise bantam sweet corn, and
have good stone buildings for every
thing on the farm. Lewis Fackrell
went overseas, and has married
since his return. He says the serv-
ice in Europe satisfied his wander
lust and he is happy on the farm.
R. K. McMurdie lives west Of the
| John Watson ranch, and has eight
acres of potatoes, and has storage
| for 800 or 400 sacks. He is plan
ming to build more. He has 80
acres of hay and ~ Of grain. Mr..
! McMurdie remarks that farmers are
taxed twice on some things. For ex-
ample, he keeps four horses to do
his farm work, and he pays taxes
on them and all the farm imple-
ments. He keeps thirteen acres OF
meadows and some grain fields to
| raise feed for the horses, and he is
taxed for that, and addition to his
summers work to produce the crops
| to feed the animals. and a lot OF
winter work caring for them, and he
finds many people with other forms
of property exempted altogether. He
tried raising melons on some of his
land and found he could raise and
ripen the melons all right, but SO
many people had been mis-raised
and swiped his, melons when they
reached the useful stage, and paying
his taxes did not secure him protec-
ton in possession of the melons. AT
one time he became SO incensed over
it he set bear trap to find out just
who was taking the melons, but his
wife would not let him sleep, and
he finally arose from his couch and
went out and sprung the trap to save
brutal punishment for the culprits
They came, they got the melons and
he had the task of raising them and
the battle with himself over the use
of the bear trap.
Mr.. McMurdie has deep, rich soil
that keeps moist If cultivated, and
he does a great deal of work in his
garden and fruit patch. Until this
year he has been able to keep it
free from weeds, but now they are
getting possession and injuring his
product. He has wild currants OF
the white and black variety, and the
tame currants Of the white and red
kind. The fruit is unusually large
and weighs, the bushes down with its
weight. The white currants are very
sweet and rich, and the red ones are
tart. In size his currants are like
peas and small gooseberries, aud MIR.
McMurdie says it is due to the rich
soil and cultivation. Whenever cur
rants are neglected, when the ground
about them ceases to be mellow and
! moist, the size and quantity of the
fruit goes down. He says that peo-
pie who do not bother with those
fruits do not get anything worth
bothering with. He has dew berries
and T,opan herries and where thew