The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-12-14
FARM BUREAU MEETING

The farm bureau held meeting
on Tuesday forenoon at the Isis
theatre at which there was a small
attendance and short addresses were
given by County Agent M. o. Mon
roe and DR.. Henderson. In the
afternoon the meeting was held in
|, the court room with twenty-five pres
ent at the opening and fifty at clos
ing.
DR.. Henderson said in his address
that great many people had lost
4 young pigs at farrowing time last
spring, and much of the loss was
due to lack of nutrition with the
sows. The scarcity of feed and the
hard winter making it impossible for
the sows to get out and root and
get mineral feed, reduced them to
the ration of alfalfa and whatever
grain they were given, and this was
not enough to keep them in healthy
condition and develop the fetus prop
erly. Buy stock feed already mixed
is quite expensive, he said, and the
following mixture made by the
farmer does not cost much over
cent a pound, and is probably as
good as any, 100 pounds slack
coal; 2 pounds copperas, dissolved
in boiling water; pounds table
salt; 2 pounds epson salts; 2 pints
airslacked lime; mix well and keep
a quantity where they can get it at
any time.
i Oiling the hogs coats is good
thing, and this can be done by using
almost any kind of hog Oiler or by
mailing some burlay on some part
of the pen where the hogs can easily
rub against it, and keeping it sat-
urated with any kind of crude oil.
Hogs that are allowed to sleep
in the strawpile usually get too
warm, and when they come out into
the frost and chill they are apt to
contract pneumonia and die after a
short illness. 1t is better to take
some straw and bank up around and
over some kind of a pen, and just
give them enough straw to form
good bed.
The disorder called "thumps" is
caused by too rich feed and too little
exercise, and when young pigs get
it. A good way to exercise pigs is
to put them in barrel for short
/ time and let them chase themselves
around trying to get out. Another
way is to put them on the outside
Of the pen and let them run around
! and climb, trying to get back to
their mother. This may be done to
stave off the thumps.
! Sows should not be fed anything
for thirty-six hours after farrowing,
but they should have water in about
twelve hours. The SOW is in fever
ed condition at this period, and she
may have a freak appetite and even
eat her pigs in the effort to satisfy
it, but giving water and feed as
stated above, and in moderate quani-
ty is a safe method.
| l.. w. FIunarty, direction of farm
extension work at the university ad-
dressed the meeting for few min
utes in which he said the measure
of capacity of the soil of a country
is measured, not by the number of
people it. will sustain, but by the
standard of it's citizenship. The
Chinese, he said, farm intensively
and save everything from waste, yet
the Chinese are always on the verge
of starvation. The United States
government was trying now to have
the farmers produce as much as pos
sible of wheat, corn, pork, beans and
peas as the staple articles, and what
ever can be done to enable the cOun-
try to export more of these articles
is furthering the plans of the gov
ernment in prosecuting the war. He
said the country is being called up
on to supply 100,O0O,O00 bushels Of
wheat for export in the perior from
October to February, notwithstand-
ing the surplus had already been ex-
hausted, and the saving of 100, ,000,-
, 900 bushels has to be effected thru
the savings and the substituting. of
country. The middle west, he said,
has a great amount of soft corn that
will not keep, and much feeder stock
will be moved from the west to con-
sumo that product, and will make
stock hogs high and scarce here.
The farm bureaus are expected to be
the instrument thru which the plans
{ of the government are passed down
the line and carried into effect.
: H. X. Wiley, secretary, reported a
= membership of 1862 secured since
the bureau was organized last June.
= The membership fee is ST., and each
: member is entitled to the Farm Bull
letin, a monthly pamphlet designed
, to keep the members informed of
: important matters which they might
not receive thru other means.
Enough copies of the pamphlet are
> published once a month to supply
r the members, and it is edited by the
county agent, who also sells enough
! advertising to pay the expense of
, publication of the pamphlet. The
December edition, he said, cost
: $46.50 and the sale of advertising
' space in it had brought in $51. The
total income of the bureau for the
: six months had been $533, and the
Y total expense 1921, leaving 5000 in
the treasury. The county had ap-
propriated $4,000 for expenses and
r salary of the county agent, and the
federal government has an appropri-