Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-01-11

conditions. The wage troubles
brought on by the brotherhoods, he
said, are now up to the government
He stated that the powers granted
to the government for control of pub
lie utilities in emergencies by the war
| emergency act are not of great
enough scope and that added powers
must be granted by law before the
government control of the railroads
can attain its fullest success.
Mr.. Albert branded as unconstitu-
| tiOnal certain of the clauses con-
tanned in President Wilson's procla-
nation and rules to govern federal
control, in that they exceed the pow
or granted by the war emergency
law.
The curtailment of the manufac-
| ture of pleasure automobiles, he said,
will release thousands of trained me-
chanics to the railway systems and
other enterprises.
Mr.. Martin explained in detail the
workings of the federal grain stand
ards act and federal grading, and
enumerated the six classes and nu-
| merous sub-classes of standards. He
related the duties of the federal
graders and urged the shipping pub
lie to take advantage of the privilege
of filing appeals on the grades given
if they were not considered correct
and to file disputes on mill grades
under the same circumstances.
Alex Morrison of Valley urged live
stock as a necessary adjunct to prof
table wheat farming, suggesting the
milking Shorthorn as the best all
around farm COW and decrying the
Jersey for that purpose
Better Sires Urged
The live stock question was also
discussed by John H. Roberts of the
Spokane Union stockyards. who sug-
gested better sires as the first step
| in improving live stock in the In
land Empire. He advocated small
flocks of sheep on every farm and re-
lated the experience of farmer near
CofaX with hogs, the farmer realiz-
ing $1,000 from 20 acres of squash
fed to his swine.
Alfalfa on Wheat Farm
Private correspondence with wheat
farmers throughout the Inland EN-
pire was introduced before the con-
vention by Senator r. C. McCroskey
of Garfield in support of his conten-
ton that alfalfa as a rotation crop
| for wheat has great merit. Letters
to Mr.. McCroskey from such success
full farmers as Lester Daley of Pa
louise, Max Hinrichs of Pullman and
others, all enumerated the success of
each particular farmer with wheat
| following alfalfa.
That wheat farmers who overlook
the matter of scientific soil tillage
are not taking advantage of the first
requisite to increase wheat produc-
ton was the claim of A. NJ Richard
son, form erly agricultural agent for
Douglas county. Mr.. Richardson
told of Douglas county farmers who,
through proper tillage, had produced
40 to 43 bushels of wheat alongside
of neighbors' crops that were almost
total failures.
Cooperation Urged
Robert Insinger, chairman of the
kane chamber of commerce, dwelt
upon the great good that may result
to all concerned through the closest
of cooperation between the farmer
and the business man, banker, or
other business interests. Mr. In
singer paid the farmer a pretty COM
pliment when he said: The average
farmer is better business man than
the average small banker or business
man of the city
The speaker called attention to the
apparent lack of individual interest
among the farmers in the first fed
eral grades hearings, and the human
inclination to kick" at the results
of such meetings by these men who
stayed at home. Such dispassion-
ate conferences always result in good
cnrned Shnnld take an intarast in