The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-08


bottom price for them, AZ cents. Mr..
Randquist was acting on advice Of
relatives in Kansas, who kept writ
ing how scarce and high potatoes
were back there and how the gov
eminent reports indicated that there
was a scarcity Of potatoes, but 1t
seems that there was a large spot
down in Kansas that was not getting
its share of the potatoes that were
moving and there were lot of first
class guessers turning in the report
to the government upon which the
crop reports were made. Mr.. Rand
quist lives at the southeast corner
of the Riverside townsite, has fine
house and keeps his yard and
premises in fine condition. They
make about fifteen pounds Of butter
week and are wishing that they
could make arrangements to supply
| it to city customers. He has no tele-
phone, but address him on Black
foot, route q.
T. R. Helm and Thaddeus Helm
and their father live on farms at the
edge of the Riverside townsite. They
have eighty-six acres Of land, some
! of which is waste, and are raising
twenty acres of potatoes, three acres
of beets, eight and half of wheat,
three and three-quarters of oats,
seventeen of hay. They built a very
fine potato cellar last year 24x48
feet in size and the potatoes kept
so we'll in it that there Is no odor
about the potato cellar at all. They
| have straw walls to absorb the
dampness. They dip their potato
seed before planting and are striv-
ing to get perfect seed. They have
a concrete vat in the potato cellar to
hold the solution used for dipping
the potatoes. 1t holds ten sacks at
a time. T. R. Helm is the man who
| built the Helm potato cutter, which
we illustrated in our issue of May
25.
R. T. Ison has forty acres of land
and is raising two acres Of potatoes,
twenty-five or thirty of hay, five Of
grain. He has a fine herd of grade
Jersey cows.
L. P. Adams has fifty-seven acres
of land, and is raising five or six
acres of potatoes and the rest in hay
and grain.
John Bitton has fifteen acres of
| potatoes, six acres of wheat, fifteen
of hay and has quite large orchard
/ which he says he has never sprayed
and it has always yielded good clean
apples without worms.
John G. Greer and son are raising
| about forty-five acres of potatoes,
twenty acres of beets, fourteen acres
| of wheat, eleven acres of peas, four
acres Of oats, thirty-five acres of hay
| and have some pasture.
F. T. Halverson has eighty acres
of land and is raising ten or twelve
acres of potatoes, seven of beets,
three of mangels to feed his stock,
fifteen of grain and about forty acres
of hay.
Lewis Bitton and F. T. Halverson
have $50 acres at Chilly on Upper
Lost river besides a homestead of
100 acres. They are building up a
large stock farm there, where there
is good cattle range.
M. G. Shaver was quoted some
time ago as having said that he
would plant his potatoes late be-
cause he was raising them for seed
and did not want them to grow too
large. The report was given in by
a member of the family, who was
mot very sure about the facts given
in and this was somewhat mfsunder-
stood. Mr.. .Shawyer.. says THAT his
potatoes are an early variety and
that If planted early would be ripe
and waiting for some time before it
was necessary to dig them.
Fred F. Miller is farming the Bert
Cameron place and has fifteen acres
of potatoes, five acres of oats and
some hay.
John Wonenberg has fifty-nine
acres he bought of Mr.: Bachan. It
was formerly owned by Mr.. Conklin.
Mr.. Wonenberg bought it in 1918 at
$106 per acre. He is raising sixty
acres of potatoes, twenty acres of
grain and some hay.
r. D. Mckenzie is carpenter,
who bought forty acres of land west
Of Riverside few years ago and is
doing some farming. He raises ten
acres of potatoes this year and some
hay and grain.
William Novas is raising thirty
acres of potatoes, sixty of wheat,
eight acres of the seven headed
wheat, and twenty acres of the
Grimm alfalfa for seed. He recently
sold carload of seed potatoes at
$3.50 a hundred. They are raising
800 White Leghorn chickens.
George Webster has eighty acres
of land and is raising five acres of
potatoes, two of beets, twenty of
grain, forty of hay.
The Peterson ranch is operated by
Hans w. Peterson and his sons Joe
and Basil. There are 100 acres in
the farm and they are raising ten
acres of potatoes, about a hundred
of grain, and the rest in hay, some
Of it being Grimm alfalfa. They
raise considerable small fruit, in
Guiding ever-bearing Strawberries.
The daughter reports that she can
ned twelve quarts last fall after the
twenty-second of October. A large
swail runs thru the Peterson farm
about a quarter Of mile wide and
they have to conduct their water
across that for watering part of it.
They have been drawing water thru
a branch of the Peoples Canal that
was not very satisfactory as to loca-
ton and they are building a new |
ditch acroes fha cwoi1 that 10 about |