The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-08
FARM BUREAU DESERVES
SUCCESS. ..-

We wish to call attention to the
move of the farm bureau for we'll de-
served success. They are organizing
along constructive lines and on sound
business principles. They have been
giving attention to better production
but falling short in the marketing
process. They are now giving atten-
ton to an organized form of market
ing and it does not involve the tear
ing down or the destruction of any
other mans business. In that respect
it differs as widely as day differs
from night in comparison with the
activity proposed by a band of or
ganizers who have sought to come
in and get Idaho men to finance OPP
erations proposed by men whose
basic principle was to take something
away from one man and give 1t to
another, to tear down one institution
to build up another.
When we speak of constructive
work we mean something like this:
Farmers have been trying to market
all of their crop at once or the ma
jor portion of it and blaming some
body because there was not storage
capacity for all of it and capital
enough to buy it all. Farmers have
felt disappointed because when they
offered animals for sale, good, bad
and Indifferent they did not get the
top price or even the average price
for them. The man who is in the
market for fat cattle wants cattle
that are already fattened, not few
animals that are fat and some that
could be made fat. He may not have
the time and facilities, it may not
suit his activities to buy feeders and
get them up in shape, The farmer
is the man who is equipped to do
the fattening. The farm bureau pro-
poses to so organize their activities
that they can market their crops and
their products gradually and without
Quitting the market. 1t is a nation
wide movement and should succeed.
The plan to get better prices for pro-
ducts in better condition than ever
before. If ten farmers have ten
steers apiece and only one-third of
each mans bunch is fat and ready
for market, they propose to market
the fat ones from all the herds and
get the top price for them shipped
together while they keep the others
on the farm until they are in condi-
ton to get the top price and to con-
tinue this operation of feeding ON
the separate plan and shipping col
lectively until all are marketed in
nriTDn condition TIn1np tho
ganized activities they cannot do that
and each one acting Independently
seeking to get carload shipment
by putting in the fat and the lean to-
gether loses on the whole shipment
while at the same time losing the
market for the feed on the farm that
should be used up there
Constructive work is the opposite
of destructive work. Here is a sample
of destructive work, some of which
has been done in this state and
county. Men have banded themselves
together to go into commercial en-
terprises simply because they did not
approve of the way those enterprises
were being conducted and they went
into those industries with the avowed
intention of wrecking the existing
business and establishing one of their
own upon the ruins. Such activities
are merely taking from Peter to pay
Paul and are destined to come to
grief.
The reorganized farm bureau is
not out after anybody's scalp or
working on plans that will ruin any
body's business. 1t will develop their
own business, give them greater pros
perity and thereby contribute to the
general prosperity of the country.
Their work should meet with the un-
qualified approval of everybody.