The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-12-31

has been accomplished along this
iine, however, to shwn the enormous
posnAbiIities. for the future. TIL
GREATEST tssnptstlon IN this work is to
ntt. mpt too much; 10 spread the eff
forts 20 thinly over sucll large
uumbeI Of projects that none Of them
will be properly COVERED.
Realizing the natural advantages
Of Idaho for dairyIng over most OF
the present leading dairy districts OF
the country, and the consequent
future posi- Of the industry,
seeing the chaotic conditions existing
at the time In most Of the cFesmeFies
and cheese factoEiesa OF the state,
/ the hack of uniformity Of product,
dlsoEgAniEedr and wasteful fnethods Of
marketing the product, etc., have
orgAnized q butter and cheese scoring
Reorganization, through which every
FACTORY I'm. tina state. has an opportun.
Its To know monthly how their gro.
duct compares with that on the mar
kst, and through the council Of the
judges they are shown how to LveF-r
come faults. with q better stand.
ArdiIed, higher quality product, a
better market 10 assured but, In ad-
diticn 10 this movement to improve
lQuailtyi cooperative factories have
been brought together, markets being
develnped comparatively, unIfor
methods OF accounting being In.
gtasiiisd ! such OfIltbe product " gpes
elFeca - the retail trade being sent
out innder this same brand for all the
ereaauerleaYssef Through shis or
tsaniz8tien ID 10 hoped TO develop aud
put the dairy industry Of the state
90 . sfiFmer fOundati m.n In addition
to this work insshelping the. factories
already In operation, i have persis
emily kept ON The tran OF the mn
scEupnl0ns creamery promoters who
haya been operating throughout the
state, to prevent them from unload
log on the farmers plants worth ",
500 for ave or six Thousand dollars.
The department. has counselled with
the farmers in dairy communities,
helping them organize without the
promoter, '~geb hbetter arranged and
better equipped plants, and for half
the cost.
"The crop and market reporting
ssIyiSe instituted by the farm mar-
ketsi department. In idaho Is another
i instance OF general rather than indi-
Sidual halp. At potato digging tiure
this fall Il was found that tue large,
j speculative buyers VINO Ia years pas
have been getting the bulk Of the
Il states potatoes at their own figures,
were paying only 45 to so cents per
hundred on the ground that the gov
ornament crop reports showed tnat
there waa big OVer-ptoduction Of
potatoes throughout the United
States this year, that even Idaho had
a far bigger crop this year than last,
and that not over so cents per hum
dFed could Be expected this year.
Seeing that thu growers Of our state
we're being made the victims OF u
4 government crop reporting system
that was worse than worthless, IN
that the early and late potato crops
we're luappsd together In their stalls
tics, and that while the southern
crop OF early potatoes had been large,
the northern crop OF early potatoes,
on the other hand, ewSs way below
last yaeF--and che only potatoes ef-
fecsing the Idaho crop, the early po-
tatoes long since ha Wing beer con-
sumed--I Immediately advised the
growers ever tire state, through the
press and through circulars distrIb-
uted throughout the pntato-gro Sing
districts, mndse no circumstances to
sell at present. prioos, not &c he mis-
led by the Government crop reports,
: that lhs tonnage would be less than
last Sear, thAt my advics even from
Idaho showed Cd lest S0peF cent
lees tonnage than the government
bureau az Statistics WAS cfedhinK our
Estate with that potatoes we're worth
&c lsuzt 30 cents per hundred 1t the
lima, and not t0 sell until they could
get ahat priOe. within tao weeks
from tue time the true crop aItna.
tloA .maa glazed before our growers
the .bnleFs aaera Offering the growers
- To 70. eeAtA more for their potatoes
thAn1shey had Just tsO weeks pre-
ylOnas told them thew could expect for
the seassn. And the price Is still
going up, getting closer to tie dol
lar mark sYsFy dag.
"what h true OF potatoes 10 true Of
other crops - wW1l-and the work
aas hardly bsgua, But the possible.
ties ios help In the dissemination are
ulmpg sBOFmous, --and what Is being
acco aplislisd On Idaho can be dupli.