Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-01-15
swine GROWERS
MEETING PROVES
VERY BENEFICIAL
Officers Are Elected and Elk
ecQtive Committee Named
Interesting Addresses
at Closing Session.

ISOLATION closed its mid winter meet
ing last evening, completing one of
the most educational events the state
has ever had. Officers for the coming
year were elected as follows: II. l.,
Randall. of Boise, president; II, L.
Fest, Emmett, vice president; w. T,
Mccall. Caldwell, secretary w. G. Mes
sersmith of Boise. George Lawshe of
Falls City, NJ. e. Lewis of Moscow. d.
r. Hubbard OF Kuna and A. l.. Wilson
of Greenleaf, were appointed members
of the executive committee The exec
utive committee will decide the time
and place of the next meeting.
T. w. Potter. of the state agricul-
tural extension service, gave an ad-
dress covering the work of the extern
sion service among the school chill
dren of the state. He told how in
four years the school club work has
grown until there are now nearly 5000
children enrolled In the clubs.
Q. d. Center, director OF the state ex-
tension department, gave a very inter-
esting address, on the subject of the
work of his department and urged the
support and cooperation of the mem
bers of the swine breeders association
IN inducing the children to join the
school children's pig raising clubs.
Railroads Not Souless.
Joel Priest, OF the oregon Short Line
read n paper on the Railroads and
the Swine Grower" saying that the
railroads are not heartless and soulless
corporations trying to rob the people,
but are giving the best service pos
sible at the lowest profitable rates. He
spoke of the stock yards facilities pro-
vided by the railroads at different
points and OF the facilities OF the roads
70 handle livestock.
Every developing community de-
Ponds largely on the banker for as
sistance," said Senator D. W. Davis of
American Falls, speaking on the sub
ject Banker and Farmer" Bank
ers should be as liberal as good bust
ness methods will permit but they
cannot do impossible or unbusinesslSe
things and they must always take pre-
cautions to protect the interests of
their depositors. The financing and
development OF a country like much
of Idaho is tremendous task. No
country bank can supply more than a
small part of the money needed. Losses
and deferred payments are inevitable
and are the cause of interest rates be-
ing higher than they should be-"
The senator thought that the bank =
er should consider the personal cqua-
tion in loaning money to a settler in a
new country, He told of one home
steader who landed in his town and
came immediately to the bank to Dor
row money. He had sold out back cast.
loaded his effects into box car and
paid the freight to Idaho. BY some
mistake, the freight charges had not
all been added before he started west,
and on arriving at his destination he
had not money enough to pay the bill
and get his goods from the depot. Sem
Rtor Davis said that he admired his
enterprise ore than his Judgment
but on learning that the man had sew
eral barrels Of flour, cured meats and
enough lumber for a homesteaders
shack in the car, he loaned him sac so
. TO pay the freight. Friends and neigh
bors helped the settler to move onto
his claim and he made good. Bad
loans win be made sometimes, how
ever, and interest Iates have some
times been necessarily high. He cal
led attention to n rural credits plan
which would he of state rather than
Of national scope, He said:
Idaho does not need the assistance
of congress in obtaining rural credits
II she viii but use her own resources
Our state land holdings give us a
basis for n better rural credits system
than congress can give us. The plan
in brief, is to convert from fifty to one
hundred thousand dollars or more, TIED
up In unimprovcd. unproductive state
lands into interest bearing securities
secured by improved lands. Within If
years after such "A system Is put in op.
GRAFTON, it will pay all our sehoo
taNcs-noW 40 per cent or more of the
total-and, in time, make Idaho a tax.
less state. This is merely an applica.
ton of the methods that have built III
the great Standard oil corporation, Tho
great insurance companies and III,
transportation systems. The biggos
business of the United States Is it.
agricultural business and 1t is higl
time that something is done toward tn,
financing of the men who are respon.
sible for this tremendous nationa
asset"
V. ID. Hannah. a veteran hog grower
of Notus. spoke at the beginning o
the afternoon session, giving some val
liable results OF his many years of ex
perience in the business. lie expresseC
considerable dissat sfaction with tn,
reluctance with which the Idaho grow
ers were taking advantage of the op
portunities in the state for sccurnl
blooded hogs to improve their herds
and said that in the future he was go
ng TO bend his efforts toward breed
ng hogs for the market, His ideal fo
his was short, block, compact ami
nal
Resolutions Committee.
d. II. Hubbard, chairman of the re
Buttons committee. read the resolu
Ions, which were adopted with ono ad
itional resolution which was suggest
d later. The resolutions renewed tn,
equest FOR the establishment of stat,
erum plant under federal supervision
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