DARE Interview : Pocatello, Idaho; Primary Informant ID007

Fieldworker

Miller, Phillip J.

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• ID007: White; male; age: 42 (middle-aged); education: college; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0386-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Potato farming—how to plant potatoes
• 05:13 Caring for the crop
• 07:24 Irrigation systems—where they come from
• 11:27 Caring for the crops when they come up
• 12:45 When to pick potatoes
• 14:38 Potato dealers—selling potatoes
• 16:18 Standards to sell potatoes by
• 17:45 Use of culls (bad potatoes)
• 18:52 Sorting potatoes
• 19:30 Potato profits and expenses
• 20:31 Informant's farming experience
• 20:40 Idaho soil
• 22:12 Dealer's use of potatoes—who sells to
• 22:37 Packaging potatoes
• 23:16 Potato processors—what they do
• 25:53 What happens to potato waste
• 26:21 Beets—growing in community
• 28:12 Growing grain and hay—purposes
• 30:05 Dry farming and irrigation farming
• 32:02 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0386-S2).
• Content:
• 00:10 Local kids' games
• 02:51 Hunting jackrabbits
• 05:54 Population of rabbits
• 07:02 Cottontail rabbits
• 07:55 Damage rabbits can do to farms
• 09:12 Crickets—problems with
• 11:21 Getting rid of crickets
• 12:13 Mormonism in the community
• 17:22 Town rivalries
• 17:54 Informant's father's farm
• 19:08 Tape end