The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-29
them start in tae roots in the
proper season.
The Firth Country

proper season.
The Firth Country
Firth has a rural mail route that
leads down the Yellowstone high
way to Kimball, then eastward, then
north again making a circuit of
about thirty miles.
Gean Hutchinson has forty acres
on the east side of the railroad
track and Yellowstone highway
north of Kimball hill. He has six
teen acres of potatoes, ten acres of
grain, five or six acres of hay, and
raises Strawberries, raspberries and
other small fruit. A few years ago
Mr.. Hutchinson engaged in raising
chickens on the farm and found it
quite profitable, but gave it up a
couple of years on account of labor
conditions, intending to go into it
again when he has things in shape to
handle them again.
Henry F. Peterson has eighty
acres in his farm and is raising
twenty-five acres of potatoes, twenty
acres of grain, twenty acres of hay
and has about ten acres in pasture.
He has Some strawberries in the
garden.
Oscar Nelson has eleven acres OF
potatoes, twenty acres of grain,
eight acres of hay. In his garden he
has strawberries, raspberries, rhu-
barb, horse radish, tomatoes and
other things.
Fred Nelson and 145 acres and is
raising twenty acres of potatoes,
twenty-five of grain, thirty-six of
hay. He has strawberries, rhubarb
and other things in his garden
Simon Peterson has eighty acres
and is raising fifteen acres of pota-
toes, twenty acres of grain and forty
acres of hay. @
Ernest Styhl has thirty-five acres
and is raising eighteen or twenty
acres of potatoes, ten of grain, six
acres of hay. He is leasing some
land.
w. L. Hunt has forty acres Of
land and is raising twenty-five acres
Of potatoes, three acres of hay and
some pasture. Mr.. Hunt wants to
get registered Poland China male.
He is on route Firth, Idaho.
John A. jolly Jr. has forty acres
of potatoes, twenty-five acres Of
grain, thirty acres of hay. Mr..
jolly set twenty-four everbearing
strawberry plants year ago and
lost twenty-three of them owing to
disappointment in getting water in
the canal at the time he expected.
He raises rhubarb and horse radish
in his garden.
Ray Vickery is operating his
mothers farm of fourteen acres
south of Firth and has seven and a
half acres of wheat and about four
acres of hay.
Christ Wilkie and his wife are
elderly people who have fine home
on the farm of their son R. F..
Wilkie. When they came here a
number of years ago they were sur
prised at people raising so little
fruit, flowers and garden truck:
They were informed that those
things did not do we'll here. They
went to planting and now they have
a very beautiful home surrounded
by flowers, fruit and garden. Mr..
Wilkie says the thing to do if one
wants those products is to get the
ground in good condition, plant
them, keep them cultivated and
keep the weeds out and nature will
do the rest. They have a great
circle of yellow roses about their
place, beautiful iris, lilacs and many
other flowers, good lawn and one
of the finest gardens the writer has
yet seen in his work. They have
abundance of raspberries, straw
berries and other small fruit. They
are very generous and give away
much fruit and vegetables to friends
and neighbors and roots and bulbs
for them to get a start. They have
selected some large round cobble
stones and laid them as borders for
beds of various shapes in the gar
dens. They whitewashed the cobble
stones SO they stand out in sharp
contrast with the green grass and