The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27


and he was too busy to chase around
and get the tarm bureau BOARD to-
gether and SO on, but Mr.. Line said
he could have written letter to the
president.
Arthur Manwaring Speaks
Arthur Manwaring, chairman of
the beet growers committee of this
county said they attempted to work
thru the farm bureau and they were
informed that this matter of trying
to get better beet contracts was a
commercial activity and that they
had better form a beet growers as
ISOLATION and have that department
attend to that line of work rather
than having the farm bureau attend
to it at the expense of people not in
terested in beet growing. They were
referred to the Intermountain
Beetgrowers association which they
joined and as soon as they had joined
it the beet sugar companies refused
to have anything to do with them;
said they were an outlaw bunch and
they would not even talk with them
nor meet with them unless they held
their meetings under the auspices Of
the farm bureau. He said that dur
ing the present year they are trying
to get organized to work by depart
ments such as the beet growers, the
Grimm growers, the potato growers
and so on and that II the county will
make an appropriation to help sus-
tain the farm bureau for the present
year they will probably get things or
ganized so that each comemrcial de-
parment will take care of itself by
1922. 1t was necessary to have an
educational department which Is the
county agents activities and COM
mercial departments to take care Of
these different industries that are
specialties.
w. G. 'SOllenberger Talks
w. c. Sollenberger, member of the
board of commissioners when the
farm bureau was organized, said that
the bureau has kept enlarging so
rapidly that it has increased its ex-
penses beyond what was originally
anticipated. He said the bureau
started Out with a county agent, then
they added a stenographer so that
the agent could get out and work
more among the farmers and still
have somebody in the office to take
care of things there. Then they
added a department of livestock with
livestock agent to look after those
activities; then they added an as
sistant county agent and then an as
sistant to the stenographer and he
did not approve of this constant addi-
ton and expansion of the business.
He felt that they should get back
to the original estimate at about
$500 or $4,000 a year and supply
the county agent with the means to
work with and give him a steno-
grapher to keep the office open, to do
what those two people could do and
keep the good work going according
to the original plan. He believed
money had been wasted and it was
not the time to waste any more
money. He said he is one of the
men who joined the farm bureau re-
Gently on the new plan that calls for
$50 piece. membership fee and he
thinks all farmers ought to join it
on the plan in the course of a year.
He thinks it is time to limit the
amount that the county shall expend
tho he thinks the taxpayers should
supply. some of the work and that
work is the activities of the county
agent.
II. w. Stephens Speaks
E. w. Stephens, county agent, said
he wished to make slight addition
to the information that had been
given the public on the expense of
operating the cars. The Dodge car
that had been spoken Of, he
said, included the use of a car for
about three months to work for the
county fair. A great deal was done
by the farm bureau looking after
that part of the business which
created the fair. He did not explain
whether he meant also the activities
of the county agent in trying to re-
organize it as stock company, but
the supposition is that it covers that
part of the work. Mr.. Stephens said
that while he had the floor he
wanted to pass one more thought to
the audience, that in asking for the
of $500 for the farm
bureau he was not asking for the
money to give E. w. Stephens a job.
He said that there was nothing per-
sonal about his endeavors in that
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