The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-14
COMMISSIONER Of
AGRICULTURE HERE
MILES CANNON, HEAD OF AGRI-
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT,
VISITS NORTH IDAHO

Miles Cannon, of Weiser, Idaho, the
first man appointed head of one of
the nine departments of Governor
Davis cabinet, was in Moscow yester
day afternoon getting acquainted
with this section of his district and
arranging for cooperative work with
farmers, grain and mill men and
other citizens of Latah county who
will be interested in the work of his
department. Mr.. Cannon is chair
man of the commission of agriculture,
which absorbed AZ different depart
ments, agencies and commissions that
existed under the old regime. This
has charge of all departments deal
ing with agriculture and agricultural
interests in the state, including the
farm markets bureau, the state hor-
ticultural board, the horticultural in
spection board, the livestock sanitary
board, the Lewiston live stock show,
the state fair at Boise, the state vet
erinary office, the bonded warehouses,
the inspection and grading of all farm
products for interstate shipment, the
inspection of weights and measures
and the recording of brands for live
stock These, with their various
branches and associate works, formed
AT separate duties under the old plan
of state government.
Mr.. Cannon has been over much of
the state since being appointed and
he paid Latah county the high COM
pliment of saying "Latah county is
the best organized county in Idaho,
excepting none. His work will be in
terwoven with that of the agricul
tural college and experiment station
and with the extension work that is
being carried on with these. His de-
no, ~ ant &c ole xxyith tho
federal department of agriculture
and the three will work together on
many problems concerning agricul-
ture.
Mr.. Cannon is enthusiastic about
the prospects of his department as
sisting the farmers to get better
prices and more honest treatment in
handling their products. He told of
numerous instances of Idaho fruit
growers shipping fruit to eastern
commission houses and getting moth
ing for their fruit and told of his
neighbors who shipped Is carloads of
which drew on him for $4,000 for ex-
penses in handling his fruit and he
finally settled with the commission
house by paying it ST 900 for taking
his Is carloads of apples for which
he had refused $500 per car at his
home shipping point. 81 could give
200 instances of such treatment of
Idaho fruit growers by commission
houses said Mr. Cannon, "but they
will never be able to do this again
under our present laws. 1t is our in
tention to make our grading and in
spection of all farm products to be
shipped from the state, so thorough
and uniform that the grades will COM
IL xuitb tho nSta hlIShQd hU
the federal and other state govern
ments. When this is done and the
products placed in bonded ware
house the farmer can take his receipt
and sell it in any market and the pur--
chaser will get the very quality of
goods his receipt calls for. 1t will
be like money in the bank"
Mr. Cannon is a tiller of the soil.
He has large prune orchard near
Weiser and gets about 25 carloads
Of prunes a year when the frost
don't get them first" and his inter
ests are with the farmers and fruit
grower. He said: "The farms of
Idaho comprise from so to 65 per
cent of the wealth of the state. The
farmers pay more taxes than all
other industries in the state combln-
ed, including railroads, business,
mines and lumber, and, incidentally,
the farmers cast more votes than any
other class. We plan to protect the
farmer in every way possible. The
and elevators will be un-
der the supervision of the public util-
tiles commission as are the railroads,
the telephone and the telegraph COM
panies.'
Under the new law it is understood
that grain cannot be shipped out of
the state until sold and this will work
a hardship on operators of elevators,
who must ship when their elevators
are filled, or go out of business. Ar
mold Lyon, president of the Farmers
Union warehouse company, which has
a large elevator here, called the at
5ention of Mr.. Cannon to this and
that the law will put the
elevators out of business and drive
The farmers back to handling grain
IN sacks, if this portion of the law
IS strictly enforced. Mr.. Cannon
promised to call meeting of ware
house and elevator men of Idaho to
arrange this matter.
Mr.. Cannon left last night for Lew
ston. He came in on the noon train
rom Coeur d'Alene, where he spent
some time and says that Kootenai
county lacks organization He met
many Moscow citizens while in town
md renewed old acquaintances with
| number of them. Mr.. Cannon lived
n Moscow many years ago and then
moved to Yakima valley, where he
pent many years and was prominent
n politics in Washington. He has
,een living at Weiser for number
# years. He plans to visit all north
daho counties and arrange for CO.
operative work with local boards.
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