The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-03-14
BIG MEETING OF FARMERS

rooms Monday to form a temporary
organization and to discuss matters
Of interest to the farmer and stock
grower.
The subject of potato warehouses
and cellars was handled by Lewis
Robbins of Moreland, shipping fruit,
by Henry Damn, of Blackfoot, grain
warehouses and elevators, 0. T..
Scott, Of Shelley, Dairying. Jos. H.
Merrill and Mr.. Hall of the Jen-
sen Creamery company, farm machin-
cry and implements by Jos. H. Mer-
Ill of Groveland, coal and sacks, P.
e. Van Orden of Thomas, the eff
cheney of the county organization, P.
w. Powers of Blackfoot; poultry Mr..
Hall of the Jensen Creamery COM
pany.
1t was not the writer's privilege to
hear all the subjects discussed, but
we give brief review of those we
heard.
Jos. Merrill discussed the dairy
question and closed with an appeal
to the farmers to study cleanliness
in all things affecting the COW in her
various relations, and not to keep
her in unclean quarters or allow her
to go without the balanced ration at
any time. He had previously ex-
planned what kinds of feed combine
best that can be raised in this coun-
try. He was followed by a Mr.. Hall
representing the Jensen Creamery
company, who spoke for the skim
milk calf He said the practice of
giving a calf all the skim milk it
could drink was the most pernicious
and damaging thing that could be
done for dairying. The milk before
being skinned or separated contains
all the ingredients to constitute a
we'll balanced ration, but after TAX
ing out the butter fat it is good only
in small quantities and followed by
quantity of meal or other cereal
to take the place of the butterfat. If
the calf is allowed to gorge itself
with milk it lies down and is sick for
while, then when it is offered milk
again 1t repeats the gorging because
it is hungry but has no sense or
judgment as to what to eat or how
much. 1t Graves food and takes all
1t can get or all it can hold, and be-
comes "pot-bellied," slim of body and
finally takes the 'scours" and suf-
fers and perhaps dies.
The remedy is never to give it
much of the skim milk at time and
always such small quantity that it
will be hungry enough to eat the
meal or shorts after drinking.
Mr.. Hall appealed to farmers to
adopt some certain breed of cows
and the whole country raise that
breed. If they raised horses, all
raise the. same breed, if cows, raise
the kind the others do; if poultry,
raise one kind, and in that way be
able to supply the market with any
quantity of the product and have
them all conform to some certain
standard. AS an illustration of how
the reputation of community grows
and Of how the buyers go to them
regardless of distances, he mentioned
the localities in the old world that
specialize, as Holland for Hclsteins,
The Isle of Guernsey for Guernseys,
Jersey Island for Jerseys etc., Pet
aluma for White Leghorn chickens
and so on, and when a man wants to
get pure bred stock he goes to local
tiles where they are settled in prin-
ciples of production and can fill an
order and give assurance of what
may be expected of it. He said he
once had occasion to go to a mining
town in Nevada to find market for
Utah-Idaho eggs, and found eggs
from Petaluma, California had the
preference and at higher prices. The
express charges were favorable to
the Utah-Idaho dealers and he
thought he could get in. He made
lower prices but dealers were indif-
ferent. In one store he found eggs
on exhibit just as they looked in the
egg case. Utah-Idaho eggs by the
side of the Petaluma eggs, the one
market 80 cents and the other so
cents. and customers generally took
the Petaluma eggs. He noticed that
the Petalumas were all the same size
same color, (white) same form and
clean. The others varied in size and
color and form, and some of them
were dirty. Customers calling for
eggs were directed to look in the
cases and say which they wanted,
and the Petalumas looked SO much