Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-07-06
TIMELY ADVICE.
Suggestions as to Methods that Should
be Pursued by the Farmers
Association.
COOPERATION Among the Farmers. the
One Point in the Road to

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The time is here for the farmers and
producers OF this country to begin to per
feet their organization along the lines OF
handling the crops and produce OF the
North Side Tract.
1t Is the history OF every country that
is successful that the successes have been
brought about by concerted action under
business methods and along lines OF their
producing the greatest good 10 the great
est number
When Judge Frost was here the other
day. who l. an eminent authority on ir-
rigation and successful grower. he told
the people OF this tract to take potatoes.
for instance. find the potato hest adapt
Ell To this country. and all grow that one
potato - that You can 90 10 the markets
OF the country with variety that will
in short time. advertise itself and ere
ate demand for the product that will
make the growing Of potatoes CONNER
cially valuable IL the tract, and that Is
all there is 10 it.
Now. this same thing applies TO every
thing else that We are starting in 10 grow
In riding over the tract and seeing the
immense acreage being put into alfalfa
and the big crops that we will soon have.
| am wondering ii the producers are
really thinking hard along lines OF how
10 get rid OF their alfalfa and make
money out of it. because that i what il
is being grown for.
In the shipment OF our alfalfa. We
come in competition with all OF the al
falfa growers OF Southern Idaho. and !
do not think it i wise for the alfalfa
grower on the North Side tract to think
about shipping his alfalfa, because in
most instances it will be disappointing.
The only practical thing to do is TO put
the alfalfa into money through the med
ium Of hogs. sheep and cattle. This can
be very easily done if the right methods
are pursued.
The officers Of the Farmers AsSocia-
ton cannot do bigger or better work
than y get in touch with people who
are willing to put sheep, cattle and hogs
onto this tract as feeders, and to make
an arrangement with our farmers 10 be-
come a participant in the profits when
the sale OF the animal is made This, to
my mind, is the solution of the problem
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The trouble is, in new country every
thing is put off until tomorrow, but the
people Who are growing alfalfa this year
should get busy through the officers Of
their Association right now, and make
arrangements for animals to feed during
the winter, either by purchase or by CO.
partnership with the owner of the ami
NAL, which can be done
Ex-Governor Gooding is prepared to fur
nish sheep to responsible people under a
very fair business arrangement. Other
large sheep men are, l.. L. Armsby.
postoffice address, Boise; John Skillern.
postoffice address, Boise; Fred T. Good
ing, postoffice address, Shoshone. For
COWS, address a man like Frank Millsap.
Shoshone
Regarding hogs, that matter will be
taken up through your Association. In
fact, all matters of importance
Of that kind should be taken
up through your Association. 1t would
no doubt be a good move on the part OF
the Association to attach a salary sufi-
cient to the position OF secretary to enable
this party to devote his entire attention
TO looking after the interest of the farm
ers in connection with making arrange
ments for the furnishing of stock to them
They can be assured of the hearty CO.
operation of the Company in all matters
OF that kind, because the Company be-
lieves that it is naturally to our advant-
age to work hand in hand in all these
matters and get the thing started, but
arrangements should be made for feeders
by all people who are going to have a
suplus of hay so that it may be cleaned
up and not be placed at the mercy of an
outside market which is up or down,
owing t. the size of the alfalfa crop in
Southern Idaho. A great many of the
farmers on the South side made griev-
Gus mistake this last year by holding
their alfalfa at too strong a price. The
safest thing for man who is building
up farm in new country is to handle
his crop when it is ready for market and
can be sold at profit, because few peo-
pie are strong enough to pay ten per
cent at the bank and be speculator and
producer at the same time, for insur-
ance, interest, demurrage, shrinkage and
a lot OF other things that are tackled on
eat up the profits.
The best thing for people to do who
are Just starting and building up their
homes is TO arrange their business so as
to grow things that will buy money, and
when that is done, they are in as good
shane As they can he and then with the