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Father started farming with the ten acres allotted to him by Bishop Joseph L. Robinson. Brother Robinson had reserved a parcel of land farther west of town, but Father said that if it was all right with him, he would settle farther east. Brother Robinson said that id he wanted that ind of land, he could have thirty acres. Father settled on thirty acres of choice land just west of where the railroad tracks are now situated. As the years went by, father bought several farms and when he died, he owned about 600 acres of land in Farmington. About 150 acres were irrigated and the rest was pasture and dry farm land. 

We raised about 2,000 bushels of grain each year and had a great deal of hay, perhaps about 300 tons each year for the cattle and live stock and for sale in Salt lake City.

In the early days, father was out with President Brigham Young on a trip in Bear Lake County in Idaho. There were a number of streams of water and President Young suggested to father that he get some other families and settle on the streams. He and uncle Joseph, with others, settled Georgetown, Idaho. He took up land and developed a good cattle ranch. Father paid about $500.00 for a Short Horn bull and developed a good herd of cattle. Later I took over the management of the farms and we developed a fine herd of registered Short Horn cattle. 

We used to drive the cattle between Farmington and Georgetown. We had good ranges and pasture land in Idaho and had the cattle there in the summer and in the fall we drove them to Farmington to feed them hay and grain and market them. In the spring we drove them back to Bear Lake and this was usually my job.

At father's death the land was divided among the children. Wilford, Charles and I had the land in Georgetown. Father asked Joseph if he wanted land in Idaho, and he chose to have the land in Bear River Valley instead. He later turned this land over to his son Smith. Joseph