The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-07

i ground attached to it, and she laid
hold of the moving job and the house
cleaning and the making of garden
a real pal for her mother, and with
hard work and good cheer she
missed the parties and dances and
never indicated that she was not do
ing what pleased her most. The
test was satisfactory. She'll do.
Men in the Moreland country say
they never saw finer prospects for
crops than this year-excepting that
there is a prospect for grasshoppers
too. Last year they were not In the
hopper belt, but this year they are.
They are anxious that everybody
should get into line and help wage
war against them, the plan being to
stock up with white arsenic. sawdust
and crude syrup and feed 'em with
a spoon" The hoppers are driving
wedge into the center of the irri-
gated district. and unless force
enough is concentrated against them
to wipe them out, the wedge may go
on thru.
In the Plackfoot district are about
six hundred acres of sugar beets, and
1t costs $3.50 an acre for the hand
work on them. That means over
forty thousand dollars worth of
labor expended on the spring cam
paign after the beets are leafed out.
Some families do that work them
selves and pocket the wages, while
much of it, probably too much of it
is done by hiring people not mem
bers of the family and not members
of the community. A good many
farmers who have sons and daugh-
tiers large enough to take care OF a |
beet tract have said they would like
to raise some beets but that the boys
declined to undertake the hand |
work-wouldn't raise beets. There |
are girls applying for jobs in town
who decline to consider a job on |
farm. saying, you know how it is,
II you ever have to do that kind Of !
work you are looked down on
Well, that makes person hesitate
The girl who Is filled up with that
kind Of ideas is afflicted with bunk.
Anyone who looks down on a girl i
for doing honest service is not to
be taken too seriously. And there
are always a lot of other folks who
regard that kind of girl as the one
Of real worth who is worth keeping
track of for futures. The girl with
stained and broken finger nails and
blistered hands today may be the
private secretary and assistant man
ager tomorrow. A man with a good
position to be filed, looks for some
one to fill it who has what Kipling
refers to as the ability to walk with
kings nor lose the common touch"l
The young folks who are afraid of
being looked down on for doing
honest service at lowly task don't
get to walk very far with kings.
One of the Blackfoot small boys
Who has not been very well under
stood, engaged to work on a ranch
or the summer, and went out to it
n the evening of the last day of
chool. His employer gives him two
lours off every day, from three
''clock till five, to do just as he
,leases, and that two hours sweetens >
I'll the rest of the day. He goes outl
nto the fields and woods and traps
nd snares gophers and has just the
ind of time he likes. Some of
he neighbor boys became Interested
nd Joined with him, but there was
ne of them he didn't like very well.
lie was doing too many things that r
Jere not agreeable, and when the r.
i'd from town decided that it was r
red in the bone, he told the dis d
greeable kid something like this: o
There's two fields here, and you can Il
o and trap in either one you want. tt
GU choose yours and we will take il
lie other one, but when you have p
lade your choice, see that you stay o.
18th it and leave us alone" Re-
orts say that everything is running re
icely in both fields. -,
Mr.. and Mrs. David Schneider had W
dry farm north Of the point of the i;s,
vas in the locality known as The ~
ouger Hole, and did quite lot of 20
what could be done st
Using dry farm garden. He broke 30
1t lot Of land and got it in con- 10
ton for fall wheat just after the ~
ose of the war, and borrowed ~
oney to buy seed for it. He seeded ~;
large tract in early fall, and gam in
ed on three things, that it would 49,
rout and live thru the winter; Cd
at it would have enough moisture "o
mature in the spring, and that
e price would be high enough to
AXE it profitable. After getting it me
to the ground he went out and col
,rked on irrigated farms and made as
ough money to repay the borrowed vo
,ney and was in the clear for har- tol
sting crop in the following sum- Ia
#. 1t failed. They quit the dry Tn
m. The couger is in full posses alb
n of his old haunts at the Couger tn.
lie. ga,
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