American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-03-15
IDAHO NOT FAR ADVANCED
IN SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
The New State Leader OF Boys Clubs
Blames Politics and Lack of Coop
GRAFTON for Slow improvement.

Idaho ranks near the bottom in
advanced state agricultural methods,
according to w. T. Mccall of Caldwell,
who was here Tuesday and Wednes-
day in the interest of the state boys
and girls club work. Mr.. Mccall has
been recently appointed head of the
club work in Idaho to succeed T. w.
Potter, and will take active charge
April l. He is now county agricultur-
alist of Canyon county, of which Cald-
well is the county seat.
NO great progress can be made in
agricultural extension work." said Mr.
Mccall, until County Farm Bureaus
have been organized. They will make
possible cooperative action that will
rapidly put scientific agricultural on
a practical basis. The greatest enc
mics of extension work in Idaho, have
been politics, unwillingness to coop
crate and newness of the territory.
These will be rapidly overcome as
soon as the counties have organized
bureaus. At present there are nine
country agriculturists in the state,
much smaller number than there are
in most of them.
Addresses Students.
Mr.. Mccall has had a great deal of
experience in agricultural work, both
with men and boys, and sees great
things for the farmers that are, and
are to be, in Power county. He had
intended to leave Wednesday morning
but was induced to stay over Wednes-
day and visit in the country with Mr..
Kjosness. His field is the entire state
and his work is the work chiefly of
general organization.
MIR. Mccall spoke for a few minutes
to the high school students Tuesday
afternoon and told them of some of
the wonderful things that had been
accomplished in the field of agricul-
ture by students no more capable than
themselves.
1T is easier to form men than to
reform them," said Miss q. Fay Fow-
Ter, who also spoke to the students of
the high school and seventh and
eight grades Tuesday afternoon. "As
county superintendent of schools in
Canyon county have noticed that the
problem of reform is much harder to
bring about than the training of
young folks to do the work as il
should be done That is why we are
endeavoring to increase the interest
in boys and girls agricultural clubs
Boys and Girls Get Prizes.
. I'VE find that in many counties the
boys and girls are getting many of the
prizes offered for yield and quality
and are already setting the pace for
their fathers and mothers. One hoy
in Canyon county made a profit of S27C
off a tenth of an acre of land. He
raised head lettuce and sold it at five
cents a head.
During the last four years Idaho
boys have won three third prizes in
national competition. Our club worl
is but four years old and we are just
getting a start so that speaks vel
for our boys and girls at home"
Mr.. Kjosness, county agriculturist
HBOhC d lew AAlALulIos AOAAOhAAl7 Alloi
Fowler's talk, and explained in a gen
eral way the work that will be under
taken in American Falls and Powe
county this spring and summer HI
announced that c. H. Terrence woul'
take charge of the boys clubs il
American Falls. Mr.. Kjosness lai'
emphasis on the fact that not al
boys would be taken into the clul
work. Only those who earnestly ap
ply themselves or intend to take tn
work as seriously as the club leader
themselves, will be allowed to do clul
, work. Great profits have been mad
, in other sections by boys in clul
work, through careful application, AM
that is the system that Mr.. Kjosnes
{ and Mr.. Terrence intend to follow.
SEED PEAS IN DEMAND.