The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-20
L. G. Aicher Outlines
Purposes and Meth !.
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At meeting of the board of di
rectors of the farm bureau, held on
Tuesday afternoon, the commission
ers,J. l. Williams and Nelson Miller
sat with them to learn what they
could about the purposes and meth
DDS of the farm bureau to be followed
for the present year. Chairman w.
| I. England of the board of commits
| sioners was absent attending a
funeral at Moreland There were
present Chairman Eric Sundquist, R.
F. Wilkie, l. N. Meyer, Ralph Davis,
A. D. Fitch, L. C. Aicher of the farm
bureau board and w. H. Scott and
Editor Trego besides the working
force in the bureau office.
Mr.. Aichtr addressed the meeting
outlining the plans that were out
lined at the state meeting at Nampa
in connection with the seed show. He
said it had been definitely decided
that it was not proper to take the
taxpayers money to use in conduct
ing any commercial activity; it in
terferred with somebody's business
and II they wanted to conduct any
department to look after the market
ing of produce or livestock or to Sc
cure better seed contracts for the
farmers, there should be separate de-
partments or separate organizations
to handle that or at least a separate
fund so it would take care of itself
on that plan. He said there must be
direct line of cleavage between the
two activities. The original purposes
of the farm bureau and the purpose
which they propose to adhere to is
educational, teaching people how to
farm better, how to take care of
their stock better, how to breed all
the different varieties, how to keep
pure seed and help a product; how
to stamp out disease from the potato
and every other product and to so
organize to coordinate their efforts
with the state bureau and the ma
tional bureau that all might be work
ing and studying along the same
lines. If the pure seed men in the
production of Grimm alfalfa organize
their department and finance it and
the potato growers finance their own
department for marketing potatoes;
the livestock men finance their de-
partment for the marketing of live
stock and the sugar beet men take
care OF their sugar beet activities;
they might all be done as depart
ments of the farm bureau, but it i
must be clearly understood that they
were to bear their own burden of
finance. The taxpayers money must
be used for educational work accord |
ing to the original plans of the bur-
eau. The work of the bureau, county,
state and national may gather in
formation and distribute that. In
formation on seeds, breeding, produc- |
ton, marketing and the condition of |
the market, the supply and demand,
all those things are educational. |
Once they begin to take orders for
goods and ship the goods, that is
commercial; it is no longer educa
tional and at that point the produc-
ers, who desire to do the marketing
must finance their own operations
He said there had been
some uncertainty in Bingham county
as to just how things were going to
be operated and if they were going
to continue to be branch of the
state and national farm bureau, they
would have to harmonic their ac-
tivities with the state and national
bureaus or they could not receive the
benefits and work in harmony with
them. The state and national gov
are each paying one-third of
The expenses and everything must
be co-ordinated according to the gen.
sral program.
Everybody seemed to agree to
that, but they found considerable
difficulty in finding just how they
we're going to apply it to the work.
They spent long time considering
hose matters and Chairman Sund-
luist kept urging them to get down
o brass tacks and dispose of their
questions so they could take up the
,ther matters that were awaiting the
lction of the board
Commissioners Williams and Mil
er wanted to know what the farm
bureau had done during the past
'ear with the money that the tax
layers had put up. They had heard
great deal said about the good it
lad done for the farmers and the
General public, but they wanted to
now just exactly what was meant
vhen men talked that way.
Mr.. Aicher explained that the bur-
au had, in the past few years, been
ctive in encouraging the use of the
ure Dicklow seed wheat which pro-
uces several bushels to the acre
nore than other kinds of wheat pro-
uce. Wherever they had produced
hat on farm or into community
had been a demonstration that
reused the interest of everybody as
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