The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-06

improvements. The land required
considerable grading and for a num-
Der of years he has been improving
it. He is raising hay and grain on it
and some garden truck.
Wallace Khawi is an Indian, who
is raising about twenty acres, mostly
hay.
Charles Grimes and wife are
white people who bought twenty
acres southwest of the Dixey farm
for $50 an acre. The land re-
quired considerable grading and
they are putting it in condition.
They have four acres of potatoes,
one acre of very early potatoes, ten
acres of wheat, five acres of oats,
three-quarters of an acre Of beans
and eight acres of hay. They are
grading a building site upon which
to erect a house and barn and have
already planted rhubarb, horse
radish, raspberries, strawberries and
some other things. They are plan
ming to set out trees and make a
nice home.
Sam r. Alexander is on what is
known as the Gagon place east Of
Kimball and reports that he has not
been we'll for some months and is
not doing much farming on that &C
count. Most of the place is in
alfalfa.
Mike Barclay has eighty-five acres
just above the cemetery near Black
foot, on the east side of the rail.
road on Yellowstone highway. He
has twenty-five acres of beets and
some hay, grain and potatoes. He
has set some everbearing straw.
berries and handles considerable
stock on the ranch in the feeding
| season.
J. I. Stone has seventy-seven acres
on the west side of the Yellowstone
highway at Wapello. He has five
acrs of potatoes, thirty acres o.
grain, thirty of hay and some
pasture. He raises some sweet corr
and everbearing strawberries, rasp
berries, rhubarb and asparagus
horse radish, multiplier onions, to
matoes and has some of these things
to spare to neighbors who want tt
get start.
Knute Peterson has l57 acres cas-
of Kimball and is raising fifteel
acres of potatoes, eighteen acres o
grain, thirty acres of hay and ha
sweet corn, rhubarb, strawberries
horse radish, tomatoes and othe
things in his garden. Mr.. Peterson
bought the place of Bowen Curly o
Idaho Falls at $57 an acre, but it i
sandy land and only part of it ha
been graded so he can raise crops OF
it and it was not successful
venture. He expects to lose the in
vestment.
Myrtle and Cassie Johnson have
farm of fifty-six acres east of Kim
ball, and it is put into potatoes, hay
gain and has some apple trees on ii
Chris Peterson has number o
!, farms in the PrestO-Goshen countr
and is living on one of 210 acre
east of Kimball. He has sixty acre
of potatoes, fifty or sixty acres O
hay, some grain, half an acre O
beans and has set some strawberrie
in the orchard and has horse radish
tomatoes, etc. and reports that h
, drove the beetles out of his radishe
this year by irrigating them.
Advice About Potato Raising
MIR. Peterson is an ardent advise
of planting potatoes early to reduc
expenses and increase the yield. H
took the writer out to differnt field
) to make comparisons to justify thi
conclusion and the potatoes tina
were planted early in April wer
large and thrifty and those tina
were planted second, not so good
those that were plantetd the thir
week in April, still poorer and SO O.
down to those planted late. TIL
earlier they were planted the NOR
: thrifty they looked and the farthe
advanced. Those that were plante
first were in bloom and had youn
potatoes on by the first of July an
bore every promise of a big yiel
with about one watering; those tina
were planted later would requir
more watering and Mr.. Peterso
predicted that they would not yiel
so we'll because they do not gro
we'll when the hot weather come
on. People who thought the see
: would rot when planted so early ca
now see that there is almost a pei
feet stand form those planted tn
first week in April and it is possibl
: to put the product on the market t
, get higher price by being on tn
early market Mr.. Peterson calls a
tention to the fact that thing
planted early in the spring get h
. advantage of all the spring shower
} and that part of the season that
designed for making roots rattle
! than making tops. The seeds a
sprout and when the warm weatht
comes they form their tops with tt
, vigorous rots to back them. If the
} are planted later he says they Z
I not form so good roots and the HI
! weather is not so favorable to tt
I growth of the plant from pot
root. Mr.. Peterson advises that Il
Q springtime is designed for sproutir
s seeds and roots and that the SEE
9 that is planted later misses that o
: portunity and cannot go back to
< and get the advantage of it. He
d vites people to make comparisons
g potatoes planted early with tho
Q planted later and confirm the
g views, where the soil is the same
the comparison the plants will
s better and more vigorous from tt
q early planting. They will also g
s the advantage of growing in Il