American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-08-28
ARRANGING FOR
FARMERS DAY
Special Meeting to Be Held
Tuesday Afternoon.
Premium List and Program Of Enter
tainments to Be Adopted --All In
terested Are Urged to
Be Present.

A meeting has been called for Tues
day next at o'clock to make arrange
ments for Farmers Day. Special
requests have been sent to few lead
ing men of each locality which will be
interested, asking their presence, but
1T is impossible to write letters to every
one, and every reader of this article
who may be interested in this move
ment is not only invited, but urged to
attend and aid by his counsel. Farm
ers' Day is community movement,
designed to benefit the community.
There is not selfish interest to be
furthered, and the general good of all
is the chief concernment.
Chief among its objects is the gather
ing of display of the products of the
soil from every locality of this section
which will convey to homeseekers and
investors an idea of our resources. The
better products will be preserved in a
room to be secu. ed for that purpose,
where a record of who grew them, the
methods of cultivation employed, along
with every fact pertaining to them that
may be of interest. These will be kept
throughout the winter and will be an
index to guide homeseekers to the
locality of their choice. Some will pre-
fer irrigated land and others dry farms.
The number and quality of products
shown from the various localities will
be the means of attracting new settlers
to them-an accommodation to both
the community and the settler.
Another benefit is the drawing of the
people together for consultation and
comparison of results. We have some
people VINO harvest from thirty to fifty
bushels of wheat per acre. We have
Others who obtain from fifteen to
twenty bushels. The fifteen and fifty
bushel men should meet and compare
methods. Climate and soil and mois-
ture are substantially the same, the
difference is in the men. Variety has
something to do with the yield, but the
manner of seeding and the methods of
soil treatment are the all-important
matters. The man who secures large
yields will not only be able to benefit
his neighbor who gets smaller results,
but will help himself as well, because it
is as community that we will advance
or suffer. We share in the prosperity
or adversity of our neighbors, as the
case may be.
Upon the yields of our lands depends
their value, and if that value is to be
increased it is to bring the low man up
to the standard of the high one.
Last year few men met and arrang-
ed for Farmers Day, and outlined its
scope. 1t was hurriedly planned and
put into effect and was great success.
This year it is desired to have the advice
of practical farmers. Upon the decision
of such as may attend the meeting
Tuesday will depend the scope of the
affair, and the awards that will be
given; whether it will embrace two days
or not and whether it will include an
exhibit of live stock as we'll as products
of the soil. Farmers Day is to become
permanent and the benefit arising from
it will be limited only by the interest
which people in general take in it. The
date or dates of its holding will also be
left to the meeting.
1t is hoped that all who receive per-
sonaI invitations and as many others as
possible will attend this meeting. All
will be welcome. 1t is impossible to
send letters to all. There are too many
people here to make that course pos
sible. Letters were sent to enough
men in every locality to insure repre-
sentation for each locality at the meet
ing, so that its wants will not be over
looked, and the general invitation
includes everyone, whether he has
received personal invitation or not.
The meeting will be held in the audi
eorium so that there will be ample ac-
eommodations for ALL If the attend
ence is fairly representative a perma-
Aent organization will be formed.