The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-04
AT PINGREE.
Saturday evening the CONNER,

Saturday evening the Commercial
club of Pingree entertained the fami-
lies and friends of its members with a
picnic dinner and some speaking and
dancing. The exercises were held in
the building formerly occupied by the
Irwin drug store. The ladies of the
community spread q bounteous supper
which was served cafeteria style. Ed
itor Trego of The Idaho Republican
was the principal speaker and ad-
dressed them for about an hour, bas-
ing his address on the motto, do
something better than anyone else Is
doing and the world will make a path
to your door," The Commercial club
has been trying to devise ways to in
duce more people to settle in the Pin
gree country and the speaker advised
doing something better in their farm
ing operations to emphasize the fact
that they have the soil, climate and
natural resources to achieve better
results than other people are doing.
He advised them to be careful not to
undertake something impracticable or
something that would take them a
quarter of a century to bring results.
One Of the things that he advised
which would bring early results and
be sure and practicable was for ev-
cry farmer to purchase one or two
dairy cows, or more If he could af-
ford to, but for all to purchase the
same breed of stock and Cooperate so
far as possible in making the Pin
gree country famous because it de-
velops herds of the best dairy stock
and produces the best butter. He
urged this upon their consideration
in following out the motto do some
thing better than the other settle
ments are doing and thus attract a
part of the world to Pingree." He
appealed to the young people to do
something that would render a SER
vice to the world and he cited the
case Of a man who developed the ev-
erbearing strawberry, so useful to the
intermountain region where they are
subject to the late spring frost that
destroys the strawberry which yields
but n setting of fruit. The ever
bearing strawberry keeps ON bearing
from early spring till late fall, and
while the remedy has already been
applied to the strawberry there are
still other things to be done equal
ly as good. There is a pressing need
for the invention of a beet puller and
topper and the speaker urged that it
would make Pingree famous if the
beet sugar producers could be fur
nished with a Pingree beet harvester
that would not only pull and top the
beets but carry the tops out on an
elevator and deposit them in a wagon
or in punches ready to be loaded on
the wagon. Another elevator operat-
ing on the other side should carry
the beets to the wagon or motor
truck operating at the other side, and
by having a number of motor trucks
to wait on every beet harvester the
work of the harvest would be done
quickly and thus make time to get
the fall blowing and ditching and 9th
er work done in season. 1t was sug-
gested that there vas need for a pillow
that will %pulverize the ground to a
depth of two feet and leave the deep
soil on top so that for twenty-five or
fifty years the ground would always
be in fine condition for the crops and
dry farming would pass from the ex-
detrimental stage to the profit-sharing
stage by reaso of the new kind of
plow. 1t was urged that If a Pingree
man should be the inventor of such a
plow he would be the man to do
bettere than anyone else is
in the pillow line. They were
urged to unite in their efforts to do
something better or to do all things
than has been done heretofore
and to communicate to visitors when
hey come correct information as to
he natural resources of their locality
md the natural handicaps it possess
,s SO that the newcomer who under
axes an enterprise in their communi-
shall have every advantage and OPP
'ortunity for success that they can
rive him.