Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-07-31

sons run Saturday, starting on cher
ries. Owing to the effect of the hot,
dry weather on fruits and vegetables. |
the output of the cannery this sea-
son will no doubt be materially re-
duced from the output of former
seasons.
The United States dredge boat
Asotin, under command of Captain
Stewart V. Winslow, is locked at
Lewiston. A large drill scow was
pushed ahead of the dredge Three
of such scows we're brought up
the river, the first, being dropp-
ed at Pine Tree rapids, between
Riparia and the mouth of Snake river,
the second was left at a point Just
below Riparia and the third brought
through to Lewiston. The scow brought
to Lewiston has Accommodations for
l. men and will be used by the United
States engineers in making the survey
of the river in connection with the can
alization scheme.
Schools Lose Money.
Idaho's schools and educational in
situations have lost approximately
$4,000 in the last six months because
funds belonging to them have not been
loaned. The state loans it's money at
6 per cent per annum on farm loans in
amounts not exceeding one-third of
the value of the land. The fund has
been increasing each month and on
June 80 of this year it was $685., 22243.
On July 81 1916, the amount avail
able for loaning purposes was only
$246. 603.50. The increment in the
funds that are available is due to two
reasons: One is that the federal farm
loan banks, which loan money at
per cent per annum in amounts not
exceeding so per cent of the land val
ue, have taken big proportion of the
farm loan business, and the other is
that the farmers of the state are more
prosperous than heretofore and are
getting out of debt instead of going
in deeper.
There is not a more prosperous
class of men in Idaho than the wool
| growers, and there is not another in
dustry in the state that has so many
difficulties to overcome at this time.
The demand is for an increased pro-
duction of mutton and wool, especially
the latter. The flocks can readily be
increased, but with the public range
becoming more diminished each year
and with the price of hay mounting
higher than the high cost of living, the
sheepman is asked to do that which
on the very face of things seems i'm
possible.
A we'll defined movement has been
started to stop the consumption OF
lamb. Idaho sheepmen again must
pay the bill They have bred up their
flocks so as to supply the lamb mar
ket and now, il it is to be destroyed,
they will sustain heavy loss. A s.
months-old lamb weighs about 70
pounds. 1t is ready for market with
out consuming expensive hay. If the
lamb is to be held until it is a year
ling, as is now being advocated, it
will weigh from 90 to 100 pounds and
to gain this additional weight it has
to be fed expensive hay during one
entire winter, consuming all of the
profit that it represented when it came
off the range in the fall.
The price of wool and mutton is
attractive, but a close study Of the
sheep industry makes it obvious that
all is not profit for the wool and NUT
ton grower. In the east, where the
movement started to prohibit the
slaughtering of lambs under one year,
the small farmers being urged to add
limited number of sheep to their
livestock. Idaho is in position to sup
ply them with lambs and if the slaugh-
tering of lambs is prohibited, this will
be about the only outlet sheepmen
will have for their surplus stock.
/ The selective military draft has
called a large number of sheepherders
and camp tenders. This will work
another hardship on wool growers, as
whenever inexperienced men are en-
ployed there is sure to be a cores
ponding increase in losses sustained
in herding and through the Landing
season.
/ Idaho sheepmen are aware that the
, United States needs every available
pound of wool and they are trying
to increase the production, or at leas
to keep it from decreasing, but it is
feared that the many difficulties being
encountered will have a tendency tC
get some of the successful men II
the business to quit The indication:
now are that hay will cost from ST.
to $50 next winter. An effort is t
be made TO find winter range in othe
states, if the railway companies will
i | nrnvide reduced rates Of transnnrta tinr