Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12
WORK OF COUNTY
AGENTS FOR THE
MONTH REVIEWED
Farm Bureau Plan Is Help
ing the Agriculturalists of
the Substituting the
Blackleg.

work covering october was issued Tor
publication yesterday by II. w. Hoch-
baum, county agent leader, showing the
agents have been active In fighting
blackleg and that the farm bureau plan
is helping to reach many more farm
ers
During the past MONTH" says the
report, IAN unusual number of losses
from backlog have been reported and
the county agents have been exceed
ingly busy in giving demonstrations in
the use of vaccine and in helping
farmers and stockmen fight the disease.
During October nearly 1000 animals
were vaccinated by the COUNTY agents
in southern Idaho.
In connection with the blackleg
work, Mr.. Mccall of Canyon county re-
ports how the farm bureau type OIL
organization helps him to reach more
farmers. He says:
Ion Tuesday of this week, in re-
Spouse to call from the Ten Davis
community where had held an organi-
zation meeting, l spent the day with
one of the community councilmen vac
cinating calves for blackleg. This
community councilman had list of
the farmers prepared who wished to
vaccinate, and we visited them as
Vaccinating. Each man had been noti
fled by the community councilman
that we were coming and in practically
every case their calves were caught
and ready for us when we arrived, and
no time was lost. Before dinner time,
we had vaccinated ~ head of calves
on nine different farms. The opera
ton could have been repeated in the
afternoon if the supply of calves had
held out, but only five herds were vac
cinated in the afternoon, making total
of 107 calves vaccinated for the day on
IA different farms. This only goes to
show what proper cooperation with
the county agent will do from the
standpoint of accomplishing work, as
fully four times as much was accom-
plished on this day as would normally
have been accomplished by the county
agent when working alone without To-
cal support.
Ion Tuesday and Friday evenings,
farm bureau organization meetings
were held at Parma and Lake View. At
Parma out of a total attendance of II.
II farmers applied ror membership in
the farm bureau: and at Lake View out
of an attendance of nine, seven applied
for membership. Especially at Parma
the farmers were enthusiastic on the
scheme of organization, and promised
many additional members
FAVOR BUREAU PLAN.
Mr.. Mccall reports also that the
formers as whole are showing unus-
ual interest in the campaign of organi-
cation of the Canyon county farm bu-
reau, and that more memberships are
being obtained than was anticipated.
At Melba, during an evening meeting,
fifteen members were secured. In
commenting on this meeting, Mr.. Nc
Call says:
Everybody agreed that the farm
bureau plan is the best and most feas-
ible ever yet attempted and predictions
that the plan is going to succeed were
numerous. At this meeting. | was again
surprised, as at Apple valley and
Greenleaf, with the way farmers rally
to the plan. The argument that the
organization will hold together because
paid worker-the county agents
always on the job to hold it together
is the best I have found so far, and
knockers and boosters both combine in
lauding the plan. With the indorse-
nent of these three widely separated
communities I have no longer any
doubt but that the plan is going to sue
coed. and / believe our membership will
"un far beyond the 35 mark
YOUNG FOLKS INTERESTED.
THE country boys and girls of Can
yon county show a great interest in
the juvenile agricultural work as evil
denced by the fact that over 10 were
enrolled in the various agricultural
judging contests at the Idaho State
fair the first week in October. This
goes to show that the Toys and girls
are eager for training in agriculture
and that they will go after 1t If given
an opportunity This sort of work
gives them a chance to assert them
selves. to call attention to their real
interests in the field of education.
AGENT HELPS sTockMEN.
In Franklin county. following the
shortage in hay and other feed, SER
ious condition has arisen. Alfalfa hay
has risen to SIS ton. and many farm
ers and stockmen rushed their cattle
on the market. AS result, stock
prices tumbled. Through the efforts
of the county agent and the farm bu-
reau, arrangements were made to all
low farmers who were not beet pro-
ducers to secure beet pulp from the
factory, with the result that the ma
jority now feel that they will be en-
abled to winter their stock through.
The rush of cattle has been stopped
and the county will profit accordingly
because of this cooperative effort.
The county agent, J. A. Morrison. Is
now working to bring cheaper hay into
the county through cooperative pur-
chasing.
In cooperation with e. r. Bennett,
of the extension division of the Uni
versity of Idaho, several of the county
agents are helping potato growers
raise the standard of seed. Many
fields have been personally examined.
and demonstrations given in the selec-
ton of potatoes in the field. Usually a
sufficient number of disease free and
true to type potatoes are selected to