The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-27

500 to 1000 miles away. II ne
makes no provision for storage he
may lose his crop by freezing in No
vember and if he builds potato Gel
lars there Is no money to pay for
materials and labor. II he stores
his crop he may not get the cost Of
production out sof At. II he does not
store part Of it he helps to glut the
market and drive the price down.
He is so busy with irrigation and
haying that he has little or no time
to build storage cellars, land without
them he will Be increasing his risk
and the prospect for losses. II the
railroad strike is settled early in
August it will take some time to get
the rolling stock repaired and ready
for moving bumper crop. II the
coal strike. is settled early in. August
it will be hard to catch up on coal
shipments and coal storage, and
that alone will tend to make q car
famine. EFS a M. f,
y The prospect ID. that more crops
will have to be stored this fall than
were ever stored before. in the
history of the country, s,and the
thoughtful farmer is using, his ] FER
sources to the limit totEst dready, for
it. HIS problems are SHINE AZ the
most perplexing, but ShHi will face
them calmly. will do 41l hes can TO
meet the worst that may come, and
thru it all, he will set The best table
Of any producers in the world. ~,
w. T. Jolley operates q garage. In
Firth and has purchased 10 farm at
West Firth that was formerly the
home ranch Of Bergman and
Rogers. Mr.. Jolley was not at home
and we did not get his acreage.
A. ]. Robertson has forty-three
acres just north of the old Berry
man and Rogers home ranch and is
raising twelve acres of wheat, ten
of potatoes. four acres Of oats and
fifteen acres of hay. In 1920 he
built house 36x42 at the cost of
about $4,000. He purchased the land
in 1919 for $4,000 which is $153 an
acre.
o. w. Fraker has farm on the
low lands by Snake river and is rails
ing eleven acres of potatoes, seven
acres of grain and ten acres Of hay.
In his garden he raises strawberries,
raspberries, multplier onions, aspar-
agus, bantam corn, early potatoes
and is increasing his strawberry
patch to half an acre. In 1921 he
had new potatoes on June 20 and
this year on July 8. Last year he
had new potatoes for sale at the
same time they we're selling new po-
tatoes shipped in at great distance.
He had considerable difficulty get
ting his potatoes marketed. After
he got his potatoes introduced and
people found how good they were
he could not only sell them in COM
petition with those shipped in, but
people would drive to his place to
get them. He is planning to put in
several acres of early potatoes every
year with view Of developing that
kind of market. The Hfaker fam
lily give considerable Attention to
garden and orchard and thru the
summer season they nearly live out
of the garden. In the winter season
they live largely out of the cellar
and the smoke house and meat bar
rel. They put up their own pork
and can and preserve a great deal OF
produce from the garden. Mrs.
Fraker says that with family OF
five grown persons their grocery bill
runs only from about IS to about
$40 month.
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bought piece of land in West Firth
and moved from Idaho Falls in the
spring ofs 1922. He has fourteen
acres of potatoes, forty-four acres of
grain and seven acres of hay.
Charles Sundquist has 100 acres
of land and is raising sixten acres of
potatoes, sixty acres of grain and the
rest in hay. Mr.. Sundquist says he
has never paid much attention to the
garden and orchard and what is
done in that is done by his wife.
They have some Strawberries that
he says never have yielded much
and he thinks they are the never
bearing kind. In 1920 he built a
chicken house 14x6O feet in size and
they are having considerable success
with chickens. He sold sixty acres
of land last fall for $4,000 which was
$50 an acre. He says there was
some rough land in it, the lava beds
cutting into one side of it so that
there is considerable waste.
West Firth has a Swedish Baptist
church with parsonage and quite a
tract of ground connected with it.
1t is presided over by Rev. H. D.
Ekman, who has been here four
years on the twelfth of July. In his
church he conducts services both in
the Swedish and the English
language. The Sunday school is in
the morning at II o'clock and the
sermon is from IL o'clock to 1
O'Clock, this being conducted in the
Swedish language. In the evening
at 1870 the Baptist young peoples
association have half an hour and
the evening service begins at
O'Clock. Both the evening services
are conducted in the English
language.
Eric Burman has eighty acres just
north of the Swedish Baptist church
about thirty acres Of it being waste
land. He has fourteen acres of po-
tatoes, ten acres of grain, twenty
three acres of hay and has some
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