The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-07-24

Bear Lake, Franklin Oneida and Pow.
er counties, while Friday and Satur
day are devoted to dmhi. Fremont
Madison, jefferson, Bling CHAM and Bon.
neville, the conference being held at
Idaho Falls. Community projects" of
work are the chief topic of discussion
washington, Payette, Gem, Canyon
Ada, Gilmore and Camas county agents
met Tuesday and Wednesday of last
week, at Boise.
Seed standardization schools have
been announced for ia Im bureaus In
grain districts of the southeast for
August and it likely that a similar
series wilS be held in Setember. An
gust dates are: Twin Falls. August 7
and 8; Burnley, August 8; American
Falls, August II and -: Idaho Falls
August IL and IA; Rexburg, August
10; Ashton, August IS; Pocatello. Au-
gust 81 and %; Bancroft, August %
School will be conducted by Il. f. Shee-
han, field agronomist of the extension
division, and w. J. Morgan. assistant
grain supervisor of the bureau of
markets, from Salt Lake. The inten-
ton is to familiarize farmers, grain
dealers, elevator men and others with
the federal grain grades as promul-
gated by the United States department
of agriculture. Varieties will be dis
cussed, with reference to adaptation,
milling qualities and grade
Tests of land in the vicinity of Ar
co, which is being colonized by men
recently discharged from the army.
are being conducted by Byron Hunter,
farm management investigator of the
state university and the office of farm
management Of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, and by f. B.
Hitchcock, soils specialist of the ex-
tentlon. They are conducting the
tests at the instance of 0. H. Barber,
state commissioner Of immigration, who
is in the field with them. The de-
sire is to learn if the land is suitable
for such colonization.
DIR. Raphael S. Olsen, child special
list and lecturer in pediatrics of the
school Of medicine of the University of
Utah, is in Idaho again this week I'M
der farm bureaus auspices. In each
town he visits, he conducts demon
stration each forenoon and afternoon
at which children are examined and
their mothers are advised how to care
for them, thus giving the mothers some
of the same sort of expert aid in car
ing for their children that the farmers
already have been receiving in caring
for their stock. The weeks engage
ments are for Idaho Falls Wednesday,
st. Anthony Friday and Rexburg Sat
urday.
Minidoka county farm bureau men,
bers estimate that they made a gain
of $4,000 by selling their wool through
a pool. Their clip was purchased by
the B. Harris Wool company of st.
Louis, represented by f. H. Critchfield
of Aakley, at a blanket price of 50h
cents, which amounts to 451a cents
for the long wool, 501a cents for the
mixed, 52h cents for the medium and
531s cents for the fine.
This price brings the wool to APP
proximately $2700 more than had been
offered by local buyers" says Grover
Burnett, county agent. by the or
ganization of the pool, there was
another marked increase in the price
of wool, ranging from three to five
cents per pound in one month Con-
Sidering the stimulus which the pool
caused, / am safe in saving that the
farmers of this county have received
at least $4,000 more for their wool than
they would have done had it not been
for the pool. A permanent organiza-
ton has. been instituted for pooling the
wool for the coming year and officers
have been elected
1t is the intention Of the Idaho Seed
Growers association to make its an
nual show to he held in Pocatello in
January, a real show" according to
announcement of the directors. A
field man is to be employed within the
next few weeks, who wfll travel thru
out the state visiting farmers and the
fairs, directing attention to the show
and assisting farmers in selecting and
caring for exhibits
If million and n half acres of
Idaho land are brought under cultiva-
tion In the next 20 years by the open
ing of new irrigation tracts what are