The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-10-01
FARM BUREAU
ASSISTS FARMERS
Secure u. of l. Student Help
Thresh.
(From Star-Mirror)

The University of Idaho, and the
farm bureau of Latah county today
took action to save the two or three
million bushels of unthreshed wheat
in Latah county, all of which are said
to be short-handed. o. S. Fletcher,
county agent, acting for the farm
bureau, took the matter up with L. F.
Parsons, executive secretary of the
university, and got action at once
Up to noon today II college students
had been sent to the harvest fields
and 20 more are expected to go out as
soon as it can be learned where they
are needed the most.
Secretary Parsons called for Dean
Iddings, head of the agricultural col
lege, who is at Boise, judging live
as possible and l expect to have sew
eral crews filled before night so they
can start tomorrow with full crews"
Mr.. Fletcher announced today that
the carload of certified Jenkins club
wheat from the Benscoter farms near
Kendrick, has been received at the
Farmers Union warehouse in Moscow
and distributed to 20 farmers near
Moscow, who will plant it. The car
contained 1850 bushels and it has all
been taken. Mix Brothers, who are
farming 1000 acres near Moscow,
| took 800 bushels and will plant 600
acres of this wheat on their farm,
where the land has been in peas and
is free from foul growth. Mr.. Flet-
cher said:
"The Moscow Farmers Union ware
house financed the handling of the
grain, handling it through their ware
house without charge to the farmers,
and helped in getting it distributed.
Much of the grain will be planted on
pea ground so that this section win
have absolutely pure wheat for seed
next fall. The grain was all tested
several times and certified by the
farm bureau and the state pure seed
department"
stock at the state fair. R. X. Bonnet,
of the farm crops department, took
Dean Iddings's place in the confer
ence and it was agreed that the mi
versity and the agricultural college
and experiment station would release
seniors and juniors, or upper class
men" as they are called, for harvest
work, and allow them credits for, the
time spent in saving the crop.
4 "We need fully so, men in Latah
county" said County Agent Fletcher.
"The crop is going to be damaged and
there will be serious loss if we do
not get more men. l think the mer-
chants ought to help by sparing one
or two men from each store. rhc men
get Sc per day, Of IL hours, for un-
skilled labor. We have found no skill
ed laborers, such as sack sewers and
machine men, who get higher wages.
1t is important that this crop be saved
and the town and college people must
help. The University has done it's
shsre Now it is NJ to the merchants
tn furnish more men,"
Mr.. Fletcher telephoned to Palouse
this afternoon to ascertain how many
men are needed in the northern part
of Latah county, east of Palouse, and
will try to send what men are needed
Professor Bonnet says that every
man who can be spared from agri-
, cultural college, including the voca-
tional training men will be seat to
. the harvest fields.
( Harvest work began in small way
today, but much of the grain is toe
wet to thresh and most threshine
: crews are short of men. Mr.. Fletcher
r said: 'The crews were all short be
: fore the last rain. After the first
! rain many transients pulled out ane
D when the second rain came and ths
v machines stopped all of the transient
:. left. We are filling out crews as fas'