The Idaho Republican., 1917-09-03

out separately at some disadvantage.
1t 1t is necessary to buy certain kinds
of feed for them at fattening time,
they can buy together and secure
some advantages by so doing. If
they are going to raise certain kinds
of crops for sale, there will be ad-
vantages in cooperation all the way
thru from seed buying to sale of
products. II they continue in GER
tain line of endeavor from year to
year, buyers will have something
worth while to go and look at and
to arrange for the purchase and
shipment of.
The great variety of results OBJ
tanned from crops in the same To-
cality indicates that there is need
for education and systematizing Of
farm methods. Sugar beets, for ex-
ample, on adjoining farms bring a
wide range of results, showing lack
of system and great loses from low
yield. There is need of some men
learning from others as to how to
raise beets. 1t is said that the beet
industry is the greatest demonstra-
tor of methods and their relative
values, and If beet raising brings
farmers to see the losses of poor
methods, and moves them to apply
better methods it" will have done
much for the community. But it
will do more if followed earnestly.
If the farmers raise the tonnage a
factory will be built; more wealth
will be produced; more stock will
exist in the community, herds will
be brought in to be fed; more in
dustries, and more people will fol-
low; better markets will result; bet
ter roads, better schools and gen.
eral improvement. For the present,
we should increase our acreage of
sugar beets, potatoes, peas and al
falfa seed and meadows.
The men who buy and sell mer-
chandise should be in closer touch
with the consumers of merchandise.
Dealers should know more of the
farmers problems and farmers
should know more of the ups and
downs of being dealers. Dealers
have been sticking too close to their
stores and to certain old accepted
brands of goods. There is GER
tain laziness in dealers that prevents
their being aggressive in finding new
things that are needed by their GUS
toners. Too many enquiring GUS
toners have been turned away with
the statement, 1--WE don't handle it
here" The dealer ought to add,
but I will arrange to get it for
you" Getting what the customer
fc ic Int, hn loro "A
public If they are to owe him loyal
patronage. That constitutes service,
and unless there is service, and
willing service on the part of the
dealers, there is scant loyalty on the
part of the public. People have a
right to feel that if they have to
furnish their own service with it's
expense and losses of time |
they have no dealer in the true sense
of the word. Loyalty both ways
saves losses both ways and prevents
business failures. No level-headed
man wants to see any bankrupt in
his community, and no community
looks attractive to the homeseeker
unless there is loyalty and service
and cooperation. The community
that gets together and does certain
needed things each year by COM
munity effort develops hope and con-
fldence and inspires it in others when |
they come to look for homes. These
things are evident in the streets and
roads, the schools and public meet
ings. The Sterling country has
enough of these things to start with,
and it needs to inspire and develop
them in one another for mutual
benefit
(These articles will be continued.)