The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-22


4 Good people, l have a great mes
sage for you. 1t may not SCUM
great, but it is. 1t may sound Xix
a joke, but 1t isn't. If you say it
simple, admit it. If it were com
plicated or complex could not man
age it.
l call 1t great because it Is goin
to help the west. deny that 1t 1
a joke, because 1t will help the dr.
farmer, and he has been the butt o
the joke long enough.
| My message is that we are to re
claim the coyote. Calm yourself
there is no occasion for you to 60 III
in the air-even If you are stock
man. There is money in the coyote
now don't refer to the lead yo,
have shot into him-nor to til.
strychnine and traps you have pu,
out for him. Instead Of vaccinatine
him with the mango to kill him of
and ruin his pelt, we are going to
connect him rural line of natural
food and cashin on him.
If you are dry farmer and rails
ing wheat, or trying to, stick around,
for my message is sweet news to you
If you are cattleman, allow me to
say that, considering the capital in
vested and the cost of maintenance
and operation, a bunch Of coyotes
has a bunch of steers beaten steen-
hundred per cent.
Every industry has a great op-
portunity once in a generation. The
greatest opportunity always comes
in disguise during an acknowledged
calamity, and the dry farmer has had
his calamities arriving on high gear
with the automatic feed. Now
reader, it is this automatic feed that
l have my eye on, and which 1 am
about to reveal to you.
But must bring my message to
you gently, and by reference to his
tory both sacred and profane, Egypt
had its "seven years of plenty" and
the years that the locust hath
eaten. In the one case they had
Joseph on the job with vision and
corn cribs to tide them over. In the
other case they did not have me nor
he department of agriculture to adj
Use them, and they had "a heck of |
line.
But / will bring my figures of |
speech down closer to you and refer
o something that happened right in
our cousins family. In the years
9O7-S-s, the cotton belt of the south
lad it "boll weevil," and in 1911
2-13 the farmers on the great plains
asst of the Rocky Mountains had
heir "big-blow." Have you forgot
EN- about that? You couldn't get
long without me.
Hitch your chair little closer
1hile tell you.
The southern planters were rails
1g so much cotton they were going
roke' buying everything else. In
ain the secretary of agriculture ad-
ised them to diversity their farm
lg, and rotate cotton with corn,
egetables and some "goober-peas."
othing stirring. Then the Lord, or
'me accredited agent, invented the
oil weevil, an insect requiring no
and whose greatest Joy ,
insisted in operating strike Of hts
wn to puncture cotton bolls after
hich the boil had a blowout.
This weevil invention was one of
lie most remarkable in history. :
lllett invented razor holder that
seps million men buying new
.zor blades Of him at $1.0O dozen. =
very time the weevil punctured a !,
I'll there presently followed a blow \
It, and every blowout was the
nth Of another hive of weevils. Can
u beat it? Our friend Henry. b
wn in Detroit has nothing on them v
r volume production. a
Cotton production waned as the n
nctures continued. Burroughs W
ded FIVE more columns Of keys to b
adding machine in vain attempt W
show Secretary Wilson how many 81
evils were south of Mason and m
xon's line. When the secretary | g,
line on the weevil he caused tn
the paper consumers in his de- til
rtment to get busy spreading in W
nation thru the south that rota- re
n of crops and cultivation were az
ID medicine for the boil weevil. hs
'turbing their eggs at any time in ST
moon ruined their spark plugs 70
made further punctures improb- tn
9. The case Of the planters was tn
desperate that they received the co
ssage, acted upon 1t, and rebuilt tn
prosperity of the cotton states. of
secretary of agriculture had put on
idea across, even tho Pharoah's ott
failed. Talk about ability to put fal
lgs across he had Potifer's wife ar,
ten a million kilometers. pls
peaking Of dry farmers, we have an
tribes of him. One occupies the his