White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
Lampson's Report
Reviewed

annual report OF County Agrlcul
turist Lee M. Lampson is the re
markable success of the Kennewick
Richland strawberry growers fol
last season. The crop was mar
keted through a cooperative organ
ization which was formed largely
through the efforts of the county
agriculturist. This method of mar.
keting Melted the growers there
$34 1000 over the 1915 crop anc
$4,000 over the 1914 crop, the
acreage each year being about the
same. This organization also han.
died the early spud crop for those
places. The growers received ap.
proximately $4,000 more for their
spuds than for a like amount in
any previous year.
The Observation-Disclosures Market.
ing union has been incorporated
and henceforth will be perma-
nent institution.
MIR. Lampson also sets out the
assistance he has rendered to the
creameries at Kennewick and Pros
ser. The state department has
tested 1850 dairy animals free of
any cost to the ranchers, and this
item alone, it is estimated, saved
them at least $3.50.
Mr.. Lampson emphasizes the need
of community bull clubs. He has
already organized two Of these in
the county.
In an effort to diffuse knowledge
regarding the type and cost of
sjlos, he has travelled much over
the county, and believes that he
has been of great benefit.
The report says that SO to SO per
cent of the seed Of all kinds that is
used in this county is shipped in,
and further states that there is no
reason why all the seeds that are
used here cannot be produced here.
With that in mind, Mr.. Lampson
persuaded the company to appro-
pirate $3.50 for the purchase of
seed. This seed was given out to
the ranchers, who grew it under
his direction and returned twice
the amount of seed to the county.
This plan has resulted in much
homegrown seed for Benton county.
Attention is also called in his re-
port to the assistance he rendered
the White Bluffs people in the or
ganization of early potato growers.
He says that the twelve tons of
seed they purchased at $1.75 per
hundred are worth considerably
more now and will be higher yet.
Mr.. Lampson says sulphur as a
fertilizer for alfalfa fields proved a
failure in the II different places in
the county where tests were made.
A page of the report is given
over to the boys and girls clubs,
organized with the assistance Of the
county agriculturist. Two hundred
and ninety boys and girls have en-
rolled and Mr.. Lampson speaks
glowingly of the success of the
clubs.
A county organization of the diff
ferent farmers associations was
formed during the year, the object
being to assist the agriculturist in
solving agricultural problems in
the different localities in the county.
The agricultural council, fathered
by Mr.. Lampson, which made an
exhibit at the state fair, captured
500 in cash prizes.
The county agriculturist has also
been called in various parts of the
county to assist in the forming of
National Farm Loan associations
and has been of much assistance in
this respect.
Due almost entirely to his efforts,
the government has established an
employment agency at Kennewick.
The report concluded by calling
attention to the vast amount of de-
tail work coming daily before the
county agriculturist. Calls have
to be answered. specific informa-
ton to be given in some instances,
and gathered in others, and each
day many practical inquiries re-
ceived by letter or phone or per-
sonal interview to be answered,
The report is a comprehensive
one and a thorough reading by ev-
cry rancher in the county would