The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-02-25
ANOTHER INSTITUTE REPORT
j. S. BOnham of Rigby Writes of the
Institute at BlackfOOt-A More
Cheerful View
the part l took in the Rigby institute

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the part took in the Rigby institute
work was appreciated at home.
Your statement of the evening ses
sion begins wrong when you say
took the floor at 7.45. The fact II
our evening session did not begin un
til nearly $3.50. Doctor Hoover stat
ing when he called the meeting to or
der that he had been waiting fol
more people to be present.
He then introduced me as a form.
err resident of Blackfoot, who had
been making an experimental study
of farming and fruit growing. He
made no mention of time limit fol
my talk. All the other speakers had
made their talks and I had insisted
that they use my time and finish their
subjects and would come on later
When l took the floor / invited
a free discussion as / proceeded and
granted the privilege of interruption
at any point with questions, objec-
ton, statements or suggestions.
More than half of the time of the
session was taken up by other speak
ers and they could have occupied
more time if they had desired it. No
speaker went home, that l am aware
of, before the meeting closed and
certainly none for the want of an
opportunity to talk.
certainly usurped no other per-
sons subject for each had threshed
his out before it came my time to
speak.
Before I began my subject for the
evening asked for date to be set
for the organizing of a Farmers
union. Organization, ! take it, should
be the outcome of these institutes
and the evening session was the last
opportunity to mention another effort
to organize the farmers of the Black
foot country. Mr.. Elliot took the
floor to encourage organization, while
| gladly took my seat and listened
to him. o. F. Smith made timely
and extended remarks about the pro-
posed union as did others which fin
ally resulted in a committe being ap-
pointed by the chair to draft con-
stitution and bylaws for the union
and a meeting was appointed for Sat-
urday afternoon, February rs, when
it is hoped an organization will be
completed. During the talk on
union, farmers mutual insurance was
mentioned as one of the benefits to
grow out of organization. Mr.. Myers
of Aberdeen, spoke at some length
favoring this as also did Doctor Hoov-
err, 0. F., Smith and others. This
came up as an incident to the union
talk for we had to rather coax to get
our hearers to attempt another farm
ers' organization.
This through with, resumed my
talk, mentioning that I was more of
a fruit grower than stock grower,
and that | would give out two points
of value in the fruit industry before
talking about animal industry on the
farm. These points were that the
Senator Dunlap strawberry plant was
the best of all to put out in this val
ley and that the best time to put out
apple trees was as early as the
ground could be worked, usually in
March. If planted then no irrigation
is needed at time of planting, much |
time would be saved and there would
not be the loss and replanting we
have had in the past when setting |
trees in May and the latter part of |
April. To plant successfully in
March without flooding, the roots of |
the trees to be planted must be in
serted in a tub of water into which |
earth is thrown and the holes dug
and the trees set from the tub of |
water with adhering mud as the
team is driven along and no holes
dug in advance of the team. If Gull
tivation follows this setting, no irri-
cation will be required until near
the middl4of the summer
o. F. Smith took the floor against
this idea, but l could testify from
several years of experience that this
way saved all the good trees and
much valuable time.
All of the above took place before
talked on the subject of animals on
the farm. In beginning about ami
mails / said the most important ami
NAL to keep on the farm was the
'armer's boy, which would be accom-
olished by teaching farming in the
public schools and incidentally the
abor problem on the farm would be
solved as well as the problem of the
high price of foods by making the /,
supply equal to the demand.
The next subject was poultry and
ices on the farm because so much :
Neglected, naming the heavy bodied :
chickens as the best adapted to the
armers in northern climate and a |
wo-room house for winter one for
costs, the other for scratching
Dom as the open shed is too cold
nd the principal implement in the
hicken business is the green bone {
rinder. Geese came in for mention
s being as near all profit as any
hing on the farm. A grassy en- c
losure was all the young geese need i t
d, no other food, some shelter and c
hus kept from the streams and /
onds of water for three or four c
,eeks, they could be turned out with c
he gang to shift for themselves. The d
GLAND China hog came in for most v
avorable mention with the slight t
of its being light breeder. o
The Berkshire came second, some 3
ghter of bone, but better breeder. 4
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