American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-08-05

aTI0eGs.
at think YOU are certainly to be con-
graduated on having taken steps tol
secure a county agent, and your farm
ers certainly will be greatly benefit-
ted thereby. Your first big move af-
ter your agent has been appointed VIII
be to conduct a vigorous campaign OF
education among the farmers letting
them become fully advised as to Just
what county agent is and what MS
duties are. This accomplished you
will find that his services to your ag-
riculturists will be invaluable. He at
once becomes a center of information,
education, investigation and demon
stration around which all develop
ment may center and farmers will find
in the county agent n continual source
from which they may draw advice and
hep in solving the problems which
are daily presenting themselves"
]. M. Bradley, field editor of the
Gem State Rural, and assistant to Mr..
It. w. Potter, state supervisor of the
boys and girls school club work in
Idaho, was visitor in American Falls
last Monday in company with II. p.
Ashby, field horticulturist for the Ag-
ricultural Extension department of
the University of Idaho, guests of
Hon. d. w. Davis, and in an interview
with the Press, made the foregoing
statement relative to the action of the
county commissioners in deciding to
employ a county agriculturist. Mr..
Bradley is reputed to be one of the
best posted men in the service and his
opinion on the matter is worth while.
He informs us that during the past
two months l., Canyon county alone,
County Agent Mccall has saved to the
hog raisers of his county more than
$4,000 worth of hogs. All these
hogs were exposed to hog cholera and
developed. The county agent was
called and by prompt and vigorous ac-
ton in quarantining and vacinating,
the disease was checked with a very
small loss of hogs. "The county ag-
ent," said Mr.. Bradley, works while
the farmer sleeps. If problem pre-
sets itself which he is not able to solve
he Immediately gets in touch with the
agricultural extension offices at Boise
and is thus Immediately able to Sc
cure the full benefits of investigations
and experiments not only by the Uni
versity force but by the United States
department of agriculture as we'll"
Gaf I'm With
Continuing. he said: 81 want to
urge upon your farmers to get in
touch with the experiment station a,
Aberdeen. After having spent day
there / am quite sure that the Aber-
deem station is conducting the most
intelligent and comprehensive work
possible and of all the stations ~ ~
northwest, none are equalling -
work being done by Mr.. Aicher In
grain experiments and Messrs. War
burton and Ball of the United States
Department of Agriculture, Depart
ment of Investigation, who were Wis
iting the station in the regular rount
of their duties last Monday, were lout
in their praise of the stations develop
ment. The experiments being carried
on by Mr.. Aicher in potatoes alone
are worth to this territory all it cost
to maintain the station. I might tel
you at length what he is doing but th'
thing for your farmers to do is to g'
there. They would find 1t highly ben
eficial If they would take day eacl
month and spend 1t at the station. Tall
Aicher into a trance. That is what h
is there for and he likes it. His test
with dry farm alfalfa for seed an
proving highly successful and den,
onstration field of white sweet Glove
is doing very we'll. This particular va
riety of sweet clover will prove a YER
valuable crop to the dry farmer q
plow under as green manure and tn
object of the test being made is to as
certain which variety will do best an
how best to handle 1t"
Perhaps one of the most importan
works being carried on by Mr.. Aiche
is his development of seed wheat, thi
being done by securing from seed me
and other sources, wheat sold as bein
true to name and then planting demon
stration tracts. This year in one trac
sowed with a seed sold by prominen
seed house in Idaho, and guarantee
to be clean and true to name, fourtee
different varieties of wheat appeare
along with several varieties OF fol
eign weeds. I leave 1t to the farm
ers whether or not the state Of Idah
needs a rigid seed inspection Law
One crop of the farm / believe
worthy of every farmers attentio
and that is the crop of Kaiser pea
being grown by Mr.. Aicher. This is
variety which has been developed