The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1914-05-21
district. In the field work, it

district. In the field work, it
intended that experts of the Univer.
sity Of Idaho will cooperate with the
federal agents. The detail of these
experts to Idaho was due primarily
to the efforts of Senator Brady, and
was the direct result of the visit to
Washington of Dean w. L. Carlyle
Of the University Of Idaho, who came
at the Senator's request Representa-.
tive Addison T. Smith has also been
active in urging the Department to
extend aid to the farmers Of the
Twin Falls section. The selection OF
the Twin Falls tract for the first ex-
haustive work was made at the sug.
gestion of Dean Carlyle, who report
ed that hog cholera was more pre-
valent there than elsewhere, and the
situation more critical The district
to be covered includes that section
under the ditch on the south side
of the Twin Falls tract as far west
as Salmon River; the section lying
under the high line ditch en- the north
side tract, and the lands lying under
the nighttime ditch of the Idaho Irri-
CATION Company, together with the
,ntlre Minidoka tract. The Depart
ment Of Agriculture expresses to- Sen
ator Brady it's confidence that hog
cholera can be completely wiped out
in the Twin Falls country, through
the careful application of serum, and
later, when further appropriations
are made, and experts are available,
the campaign will be carried as ex-
tensively into other agricultural Sec
tons where the disease has been de-
tacted.
The Department of Agriculture has
advised Senator Brady that it can
not take any of the 100000 appro-
priation for maintaining and equipping
laboratory at the University for
the manufacture of hog cholera serum.
The demand from other states for fed
eral aid in stamping out the disease
is 50 great, and the situation so crit
ical, that the full amount on hand
must be used for field work. The
Senator, however, is urging that one
representative of the Department be
detailed to assist the University o;
Idaho in operating its own labora'
tory, and if this can be arranged the
output of serum can be greatly in
creased. Senator Brady has been adj
vised by the University authorities
that an appropriation of $4,000 to
$4,000 would equip laboratory large
enough to make all the serum needed
in the entire Northwest, and if op
portunity presents. the Senator will
offer an amendment making such an
appropriation.
After a long fight, Senator Brady
has induced the Reclamation Servic =
to agree to furnish water, free o.
charge, to the demonstration farm a.
ter Users Association will consent
The State University is ready to op
crate this farm, but it has no funds
to pay for wafer, and for that rea,
son the Senator urged tho donation
by the government. Prof. Carlyle
will undertake to secure the consent
of the water users to the donation.
The Bureau of ,oils CT the De
partmcnt of Agriculture on recon
mendatfon of Senator Brady, has
agreed, during the coming summer
to cooperate with the University Of
Idaho in making soil survey in La
tab County. One soil analyst of th<
Department will be sent to Idaho to
cooperate on this work with chem
list detailed by the University. Soil
survey work in Idaho, and in severa
other Northwestern states, has beer
neglected by the government hereto
fore, and Senator Brady is insisting
t(at his state receive it's full share
of benefit from this branch of the
Department. work.
Under an appropriation carried by
the agricultural appropriation bill
two live stock field men of the De
partment of Agriculture will be SEN
to the Boise project, and one to
the Minidoka project during the com
ing summer to lend what aid they car
to the farmers on those tracts. The
detail was urged by Senator Brady are
Dean Carlyle
The Bureau of Plant Industry of the