The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-25

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not prove profitable he has chance
to keep his balance on the others.
When he came in the year 1907 or
1908 he saw an advertisement of
some nursery that proposed send
ing hundred little pine trees for
dollar and he ordered and received a
package of little pine trees about
like cabbage plants and he set them
out like cabbage plants, in a. row in
the garden. After they had grown
to larger size he transplanted them
to the positions where he wanted
them and now has quite a fo.k Of
pine trees that are about fifteen or
twenty feet high.
A. C. Jensen has ten acres in his
farm and raises wheat, alfalfa,
poultry, fruit and truck. Mt. Jen-
sen is getting along in years and is
retiring from active business.
\. J. F. Jensen has sixty acres adj
joining his fathers place and is
raising fourteen acres of potatoes,
eight acres of beets. twenty acres Of
hay, ten of wheat and two of, oats.
The Bond Ranches )
James G. Bond is one Of the Arm
Of Bond brothers, who own a large
tract of land in Centerville and is
planting twenty-five acres of pota-
toes, no beets; twenty Of grain, and
has about forty-five acres of hay.
The Bond brothers were in business
in Blackfoot, dealing in coal and po-
tatoes for number of years and ].
G. Bond served as member of the
city council and board of county
commissioners and spent quite a
busy life for number of years. He
says that life on the farm seems
rather too quiet now. He has some
Of the longing for business career.
He says that he has found that there
is more sincere friendship among
the farmers than there is among
business people as rule and he en-
Joys that feature of country life. He
is glad he is not on the city council
or member Of the board of county
commissioners for he does not have
to keep answering the telephone to
hear complaints about matters such
as culverts, bridges, repairing am
all the other things that such Of
ficials get rung up about.
Thomas G.. Bond is another men,
Der of the old firm of Bond brothers
and is acting independently now. He
built fine house on his farm two
or three years ago, made lot of i'm
provements in the way of hog houses
and stock pens and has been feeding
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connection with the, Carstine Pack
ing company of Tacoma, Wash, and
fed about $500 head last winter.
He is feeding about $50 hogs this
spring AS a result of Mr.. Bonds
feeding operations many people in
the neighborhood have had profit
able employment during the winter
season. 1t has consumed a great
deal of hay and grain and pulp in
the neighborhood and made it dis
tributing point for vast amount of
fertilizer that is used on the neigh
boring farms. Mr.. Bond has leased
his part of the place this year and is
on the road practically all the time
buying cattle for the Carstine Pack
ing company.
j. H. Bond is another member of
the firm of Bond brothers and he is
living on what is known as the Nc
MILAN place. He has all of his land
rented and is making some improve
ments in his lawn and garden. He
keeps the coal and potato office open
during the proper season, but has it
closed during the summer.
John Keel has forty acres on his
farm, has nine acres of beets, two
acres of potatoes, fifteen of hay and
four of grain.
Failure and Success
John Schaffer is on the Arvish
place and is farming seventy-fve
acres. He has eight acres of pota-
toes, ten of beets, twenty-three of
grain, thirty-two of hay, some
orchard, one acre of raspberries.
Mr.. Schaffer took a dry farm some
years ago and kept his family there
four or five years. He thinks he
could have succeeded if the cattle
and sheep had left him alone, but he
could not successfully fence them
out. He di dnot have the means to
put up very good fence. The last
year the family stayed there Mr..
Schaffer worked out on the irrigated
farm. His wife became very dis
couraged over the prospects, she de-
clined to remain on the dry farm
any longer altho Mr.. Schaffer pre-
ferred to try it longer. He mort
gagged the place for $1,000 to get
means to carry on his dry farm OPP
eratiOns and when he decided to quit
the mortgage company gave him $50
and paid the back taxes and took the
title to the land.
Mr.. Keel came from that part of
Russia near the Black Sea and some
times gets information from his
friends and relatives starving back
there. He has eight children and
some of them are large enough to
give him considerable help on the
farm. He thinks he is going to be
successful and get an irrigated farm
of his own.
Brigham Farnsworth is raising
eighteen acres of potatoes, no beets,
some hay, has some pasture land,
and twenty-five acres of wheat. He
has twenty-five thorobred Ranboulet
sheep He is planting 1900 rasp-
berry plants on about two-thirds of
an acre and has some everbearing