Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-28
CANYON COUNTY
FARMERS CONFER
ON COOPERATION
Quarterly Conference Of
Farm Bureau in Session
for Purpose of Consider
ing Important Matters.

| Caldwell, Feb. 2s.-Featured by an
unusually large attendance Of farm
ers from all parts of the tributary
country as well as by the fullest meas
ure of enthusiasm upon the part Of
those participating in the meeting, the
third of the series OF quarterly district
meetings being held by the Canyon
County Farm Bureau is in progress in
this city today. Protection through
organization and cooperative meth
DDS" is the slogan Of the farmers Of
| this county. and they are now Civ
ing that slogan practical application
with view to adequately protecting
their own interests. The movement for
the application of the principles of sci
entific agriculture was initiated a num-
Der Of years ago. and one of the con-
sequences OF the movement is that to-
day the county ranks first among the
counties Of the state in the industries
Of agriculture and livestock.
Last year the work Of demonstrating
was inaugurated by County Farm
Agent w. T. Mccall. and this year
farms in various parts OF the county
are being selected for demonstra tions
in potato and clover seed production.
in every community some one member
of the bureau is being designated to
direct the special work of crop stand
ardization, boys and girls club work,
| animal disease control, the eradication
Of grasshoppers and other farm prob
lens
FOR sILo EXCURSION.
a-%.. ,taI,
is being outline is a silo excursion
OF two days duration for the purpose
of giving an impetus to the construc-
ton of silos, which has already as
sumed such proportions throughout
Canyon county. Plans are also under
way for a summer farm bureau picnic
for the purpose OF affording the farm
ers Of the county the opportunity of
getting together and discussing their
mutual interests and formulating
course of procedure along the lines of
marketing and the elimination of the
possibility of monopolies concerning
the agricultural products of the coun-
try G. Ben Ross, of Roswell, a mem
Der of the board of county commits
sions OF Canyon county, and one OF the
most successful farmers and livestock
men of the county, who Is president of
the county farm bureau, is presiding
over the meeting of today, while Coun-
ty Farm Agent w. T. Mccall. OF cald-
well. Is present and in direction Of the
formulation Of plans for a most ag-
gressive years work in all parts of the
county. This work will be featured
by potato and clover seed production
demonstrations in the widely famed
communities Of Deer Flat and Wilder.
In the Deer Flat community, where the
scientific culture of potatoes has been
practiccd number of years. more ex-
tensive demonstrations than ever be-
fore will be made
Already the industry there has as
sumed such proportions as to lift
mortgages, build new and modern farm
residences and barns and transform
the sagebrush desert into one OF the
most promising farming belts in the
entire country.
CLOVER SEED PRODUCTIONS.
Glover seed production demonstra-
tons will be of equal proportions in
the various parts of the county where
it proved so highly profitable to the
farmers last year. Through the methods
which have been initiated by the county
agent for the production of grass seeds
this section has developed into one OF
the most highly favored sections for
this industry in the entire United
States, having yielded to many farm
ers last year revenues equivalent TO
the value of their farms. That the de-
vclopment will assume such import
ance as to be utilized by the great
wholesale seed houses as n supply CEN
ter for the markets Is now thought
highly proba BILE.
President Ross emphasizes the I'm
portance of organization upon the part
of the farmers. He maintains that 1t
has been abundantly evidenced that by ,
cooperative efforts 1t Is entirely pos
sible for them to prevent monopolies :
purchasing their products from fixing |
the prices OF those products.
MARKETING BIG PROBLEM.
Marketing In his opinion Is the farm
ers' one important problem. Mr.. Ross .
takes the position that crop Standard
zation is the problem first to be solv- :
ed by the bureau and that later 1t will
direct It's efforts to the solution of the
problem Of marketing. As factors for
the solution OF this great problem now
the country. Mr.. Ross pre-
diets cooperative farm elevators and
warehouses throughout southern Ida
no at no distant day.
MEETING At PA 'ETrE.
The meeting held at Payette yester-
day was a highly successful one and
the present trend OF development Jus
titles the prediction that much Ia des-
tined to be accomplished through the
organization of the farmers OF Can
yon county. along the lines OF promot-
ing their interests The bureau now
has a membership OF SIS and enjoys
the distinction Of being the largest
county farm bureau In the entire Unit