American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-24
FARM BUREAU is REoRGANIzED.
Officers for Following Year Elected
and Work Planned.


well attended and enthusiastic
meeting of the Power County Farm
Bureau was held at the court house
Friday. It was a delegate meeting,
although all members present were
permitted to have voice and a vote
in the meeting.
At the forenoon session, wn1cn was
called to order about II o'clock, the
work of the coming year was out
lined and a nominating committee
anpointed to propose candidates for
members of the executive committee
and to designate the projects they
were to lead The nominating COM
mittee was composed of l.. w. Cotant,
]. N. Crawford, Ross McCarty, M. L.
Adolf and C. R. Butterfield
The meeting reconvened at l:SO,
and the following executive commit
teemen were proposed:
s. L. Wixon, Landing, dairying.
Gus Nieubauer, Prosperity, herd
law
Carl Rudeen, Sunbeam, rural tele-
phones.
F. L. Cunningham, Igo, rural mails.
M E. Drake, American Falls, live
stock.
C. R. 3utterfield, Crystal, weed
control.
H. B. Sanders, Rockland, rodent
pests.
F. A. Ziek, Cedar Ridge, grain
Standardization.
C. P. Ollie, Neeley, potatoes.
j. P. Voight, American Falls, in
surance.
l.. W. Cotant, Rockland, labor.
The officers recommended were:
T, w Cntant
vice president; ]. P. Voight, secre-
tary,.
The report of the nominating COM
mittee was accepted and the secre-
tary was instructed to cast the unani-
nous vote of the meeting for those
above named.
1t was decided to make the voting
precincts the district boundaries
with Sunbeam Igo and Horse Island
added A call of the districts was
made and the following district lead
ers were selected by those present
from the respective districts:
American Falls, j. P. Voight.
Prosperity, Chris Schrenk.
Pleasant Valley, M. L. Adolf
Cedar Creek, F. H. Boldt
Cedar Ridge, William Crawford.
Crystal, ]. C. Davis.
Pauline, e. c. England.
Arbon, Lucien MeClary.
Roy, John Reiman
Rockland, B. B. Cotant.
Landing, j. w. May.
Little Greek, P. w. Meisonheimer.
Bonanza Bar, Burness Burns.
Neeley, George Jones.
Sunbeam, Frank Kluck, Jr.
Horse Island, Dave Phillips.
Igo, o. C. Greasy.
Fairview, E. e. Geesey.
The chairmen of the districts were
instructed to call meetings of the
members within their districts as soon
as possible to elect leaders of the pro-
jects in which they are interested.
The chairmen of the district organi-
cations are the mediums through
which the executive committee is
reached, and meet with the execu-
tive committee whenever occasion
requires.
Several matters of interest to the
farmers were discussed, the more
important of which were rodent pest
determination and grain standard
ization and grading.
The method of handling the stry-
chnine ordered, payment for it, anG
mixing of the poisoned bait, were ex-
of the poison it will be delivered tC
the district leaders by the county
agent, the leaders being required tC
give notes for half the cost of the
strychnine. The leaders must collec
for the strychnine as it is given out
or stand good for it.
County Agent Lampson urged car'
in the use of the poison, as a safe
guard to human and animal life.
The farmers present went on recort
in favor of a government weighe
and grain grader who shall weigl
and grade all the grain marketed il
the county. The discussion develop
ed three reasons for adopting thi
plan in the judgment of the larg
majority of those present. Its i'm
practicability was urged by one dele
gate, who said his experience II
grain buying convinced him that tn
plan was not practical. The reason
urged by the majority were:
/. 1t would do away with an
question of unfairness on the part @
dealers.
2. 1t would protect the buyers a
the terminals.
3. Saving of labor in handling tn
crop.
County Agent Lampson urged tn
following points in addition to tn
foregoing: 1t would put an accurat
check on loss caused by poor seed
loss by poor threshing, and loss
poor farming "A rigid enforcemer
of grades, according to governmeT
standards, would be very helpful
farmers in the long run, in NJ
Lampson's opinion, and this can
done only by educating producer
by one who can not possibly hay
a selfish purpose.
The executive committee meets (;