The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-13
New County Com
missioners Convene
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much to sustain financial conditions
in the communities where it was dis
tributed. Farmers selling their seed
individually could not get so much
for their products and the buyers
would not be in position to honor
their claims OF pure seed unless there
was responsibility back of the claim.
These eighty seed growers are pre-
pairing to organize and comply with
the rules for handling seed so that
it may not be certified as pure seed
according to its desert, but that there
will be guarantee back Of the de-
livery of the seed and a guarante
that it is exactly what it is repre-
sented to be and then, the buyers
will not hesitate to pay them their
price. A man desiring to seed down
a valuable meadow with q few acres
will not hesitate between the price
of 80 cent sed and so cent seed II
the 80 cent seed is not certified and
there is no certainty about what it
will produce and the other seed is
certified and can be depended upon
absolutely to produce Grimm alfalfa.
The difference of 20 cents a pound
or $500 an acre in seeding will not
prevent any practical and sensible
farmer from buying the better seed
and knowing what he is doing rather
than take guess on something of an
unknown quality. The farm bureau
is to have department for certify
ing seed and the pure seed men who
have the money in their hand for the
SO cent seed crop in 1880 do not
hesitate to put up $25 piece for
membership in the farm bureau.
Certified Dicklow Wheat
A considerable acreage of pure
Dicklow wheat has been raised in
this county and the men raising it
at higher price than their neigh
bors were getting for equally good
seed that was not registered and GER
titled. Pure Dicklow wheat produces
more wealth to the acre than other
wheat and 1t is desirable to get pure
seed; it commands higher price
and the men who have the profits of
their Dicklow seed in their pockets
or bank accounts do not hesitate to
put up $25 for membership in the
farm bureau for future benefits to be
obtained thru the bureau. They feel
that they are already ahead of the
game and they see how the farm
bureau is going to benefit them The
man who has Dicklow wheat, but has
not complied with rules to bring him
self within the activities of seed GER
tificatiOn, will have the choice
brought home to him this year. If
he becomes a member of the farm
bureau he can have his wheat certi-
fed and vouched for or guaranteed
by the bureau and the bureau will
have standing in the market for
his wheat. If he remains outside of
the farm bureau to save the $25 and
to escape bearing his part of the bur
den of maintaining the organization
In it's activities he will not be able
to get his seed certified and to get it
marketed thru the bureau and Justly
so, and will have to take whatever
he can get for his seed, peddling it |
unauthorized with no other backing !
or guarantee than his unsupported !
statement which will not get him !
very far among men desiring to buy !
pure DicklOw wheat. The result will /
be that the Dicklow seed raisers will
seek membership in the farm bureau
and the farm bureau activities will
make 1t profitable for them to do SO.
The Sugar Beet Raisers
The raisers of sugar beets will
have their needs attended to thru the
farm bureau in the same way that
the Intermountain Beet Growers as
ISOLATION has been doing it's work.
This tcsk IS to be made a depart
ment of the farm bureau and negitia-
lions will be carried on to secure for
The farmers as nearly as possible a
Just and fair price for their sugar
)eets Here again the price of the
products will be niger than
f this work was not carried on by
he bureau. They received more for
heir 1920 beet crop by reason of the
activities of the Intermountain Beet
Growers association and it is fairly
o be expected that they will receive
more for their 1921 beets by reason
If the work the farm bureau is in a
position to do. Therefore the beet
growers can afford to becme men, ,
'ers Of the farm bureau because the
,ureau will put the money in their ,
lands with which to pay the mem
'ership. Men who understand what
he farm bureau proposes to under {
axe for the beet growers and who
ave faith in the ability of the farm ,
'ureau to represent their interests
nd to get results want to be men, ,
ers of the farm bureau and help in I
he work and by the payment of the
membership fee make it possible for
he bureau to carry on the work s
However, there are many of the beet
rowers who do not understand the
ituation very we'll, many of them /
10 not understand that the bureau is ,
.oing to undertake this work for the
some of them do not
ave confidence in the ability of the I
arm bureau to properly represent
hem and for various reasons they /
lesitate about joining the bureau at |
he advanced price of membership ,
hat is now fed at $25 But If we {
ire to have a strong farm bureau ,
here must be strong membership {
ZEE to sustain it unless we continue
axing all the people for the farmers {
interests as we have been doing and {