Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-12-10
mAHO'S DEPARTMENT
OF MARKETS

w. G. Scholtz, director of the Ida
no department of markets, tells why
Idaho created a department of mar
kets and how the department is OPP
Grated He thinks that the idea of
state assistance in marketing has
come to stay He said, in part;
There are three distinct divisions
in the Idaho law under which this
state department of farm markets
operates. In the first place there is
the free state employment bureau,
through which farm ers desiring help
or farm laborers desiring work, are
brought together without expense to
either party. This part of the work
has already proven its worth in the
few months it has been in operation,
filling a need that can not be sup
piled properly in our territory at
least by the federal department of
labor or any other medium.
The duties under the second di-
vision include the investigation of
literature pertaining to colonization
or settlement sent out of the state
by promoters, real estate dealers, or
others, and the warning of home
seekers against Inaccurate or mis-
leading statements, as we'll as the
prosecution of wrong-doers when evil
dence shows that a homeseeker has
been taken advantage of in any way.
Idaho, like other western states, is
suffering from the unfortunate pro
motion of few years ago when many
settlers who were either untitled for
farming, or who, through misrepre-
sentation of conditions, came onto
the land with insufficient funds, An
important feature in this connection
is the receiving direct from owners
descriptions of farm property for
sale, and the maintaining of a prop
erly classified list of such properties
for the inspection of prospective buy
ers. Attractive holdings in various
parts of the state can often be pur-
chased at figures that remove the in
centive for a settler going into unde-
veloped sections and taking up raw
land. We ascertain the present oc-
cupation of our correspondent,
whether he has had any previous
farming experience, and, If so, how
much and where, his preferences in
the way of climatic conditions, acre
age, type of farming, etc, also the
number of children in his family and
the age of each, on account OF the
school and farm labor problem. With
these and other facts we are better
enabled to make of him a contented
and prosperous, permanent settler
The third and principal division
or the Idaho farm markets law is the
one concerning the better distribu-
ton of farm products. This part OF
the work is, of course, the slowest 10
get fully under way Enough already
mas been accomplished along this
line, however, to show the enormous
possibilities for the future. The
greatest temptation in this work is
10 attempt too much; to spread the
efforts so thinly over such large
number of projects that none of them
VIII be properly covered.
Realizing the natural advantages
VI Idaho for dairying over most OF
tue present leading dairy districts OF
me country, and the consequent
future possibilities of the industry,
seeing the chaotic conditions existing
at the time in most of the creameries
ana cheese factories of the state, the
iack OF uniformity OF product, dis
organized and wasteful methods OF
marketing the product, etc., have
organized a butter and cheese scor-
ing organization. through which