Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-06-24
RIGHT MAN FOR
PLACE SECURED
SCHOOL BOARD CONFIDENT 1T
HAS CHOSEN WISELY IN FILL
ING IMPORTANT POSITION OF
AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTOR.

Some months ago the Board OF
Education Of this city decided to
put worth while Course in Agri-
culture and Soil Chemistry into
the schools and to that end instruct
ed the Superintendent to scour the
lcountry in search of a man who
would be suitable for this work.
1t was deemed necessary, if the
work is to be of real value to 5he
community, to find a man of such
calibre that he can conduct short
courses Of instruction for farmers, a
man who understands thoroughly
the principles of irrigation and
plant growth and who can help the
farmer to determine the proper
amounts of water for certain crops
under certain soil conditions and
who would become a real member of
the community for twelve months in
the year. He will teach Agriculture
and Chemistry in the schools dur
! ing the school year and work among
and advise with the farmers during
the summer.
Letters were written to the State
Agricultural Colleges in all CT the
western arid States in an effort to
locate a suitable man. The most
suitable of the scores OF aprli ants
seemed to be Mr.. F. R. Brown wht
has been teaching in the State Agri-
cultural College of Oregon at Cor
wallis and doing field work through
out the State. After settling upon
the man as far as could be de-eI'
mined through correspondence, Mr..
Strohbehn and Supt Turner went te
Corvallis for a personal interview
with him, as result of which he
was engaged and will be in Payette
for duty about July 1.
After learning that Mr.. Brown had
decided to leave Corvallis for Pay
cite, Professor A B. Cordley, Dean |
of the School Of Agriculture and |
State Experiment Station, wrote the |
Payette Board as follows:
Il have just learned that you are
to take one of the members of oul |
Experiment Station staff to Payette |
to take charge of your high school |
work in Agriculture and to work |
with your farmers. l wish to con-
graduate you and-through you to
congratulate the people of Payette |
and vicinity Mr.. Brown graduated |
from the College of Agriculture in
1910 and since then has been en-
ployed as one Of the members of |
our staff. During this five years he
has had abundant opportunity thrG |
field work to become thoroughly |
familiar with the methods of om
most progressive farmers and Erui
growers, and to accumulate a fdn6
of information and practical expert
ence which will be available to
your people. He has distinctly made
good with the farmers of Oregon. i
bespeak for him the hearty sup
port of yourself and the peorle OF
the Payette Valley, and am certain
he will fully justify any confidence
that may be placed in him.
Professor C. 1. Lewis, Chef of
the Division of Horticulture, wrote
as follows: 81 wish to congratulate
you upon being able to secure the
services of Mr.. Brown. He is one of
the very best field men we have
had connected with this department
We have always found him capable,
hard-working, energetic, full of mi
tiative and always willing to do
anything he is called upon to do. We
shall miss him very sorely in this
Department. Your gain is our dis
tinct loss, and were it not for the
fact that the last legislature reduc-
ed our appropriations twenty-six
thousand dollars it would not have
been possible for you to have taken
Mr.. Brown away from us, bit with
out funds available to pay salaries
many of our best men are going to
new fields.
Mr.. Brown was raised on the
farm. With the farm training and
the Agricultural College training he
appreciates both points of view. l
am sure he will be a distinct addi-
tion to your school and community"
Professor F. L. Griffin says CT
him: "Mr. Brown is regarded as
being one of the best field men In
the employ Of the College. He has
had long training In fruit raising