The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-24
GOOD FARM BUREAU
MEETING At GENESEE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
GENESEE BUREAU WAS A BIG
EVENT, WELL ATTENDED.
(Genesee News)

(Genesee News)
} The annual business meeting of the
} Genesee community of the farm
bureau was held at the American
: Legion hall the afternoon Of Wednes-
day, February 15. Community Chair
man R. E. Nordby called the meeting
together and explained that the meet
ing had been called to discuss the
work of the past year and to make
: arrangements for the work of the
!, coming year. Local project leaders
gave reports on the progress made
in their projects during the past year.
Dr. H. G. Luce, leader of the live
stock project, reported that the prin-
cipal work taken up in his project
was the testing of the grade cattle Of
the community of tuberculosis. He
gave the following summary of this
work: approximately 85 per cent of
the grade cattle of the Genesee Sec
tion was signed up for the tubercu-
losis test The work of testing was
begun and $50 head, or about one
third of those signed up, were tested.
When the work had progressed this
far the state director of animal hus-
bandry ordered the work stopped be-
cause the funds appropriated for in
IDENTITIES had been exhausted through
the payment to cattle owners of in
IDENTITIES on tubercular cattle con-
demned during the past two years. Of
the $50 head tested, 10 head or six
| and two-thirds per cent were found
to be tubercular. The average for
thestate of Idaho for all cattle tested
one-half per cent Dr. Luce explain
or hn ho
in the community and county He
said, There are three possible ways
of continuing this work, as follows:
l. By having sufficient funds ap-
propriated by the state for the con-
tinuance of the work under the state
and federal cooperative plan.
2. By having the county employ a
veterinarian to do the testing.
3. By the owner paying for the
work, which testing can be done only
by a veterinarian approved by both
the state of Idaho and federal author
tiles. Any other veterinarian or in
dividual injecting tuberculin into a
bovine animal in this state does it
illegally, and neither the state or fed
eral authorities will recognize the
test, either for interstate shipment
or eradication.
VIM. Schlueter, leader of the pest
control project reported for that pro-
ject. 1t was shown that between 800
and 400 ounces of strychnine aka
loid was distributed to Genesee far
mers through the farm bureau and
that more progress had been made in
the control of squirrels than had ever
before been made in the community.
John Lorang, leader of the wheat
standardization project, asked County
Agent o. S. Fletcher to report for
that project. Mr.. Fletcher reported
that grain demonstration had been
held during March; that a survey had
been conducted to determine the most
popular varieties of the Genesee Sec
ton; and that two car loads of pure
Jenkins Club seed wheat had been
shipped into Genesee and distributed
to farmers of Latah and Nez Perce
counties. He reported that between
1900 and 1900 bushels of this certi-
fled seed had been planted in the La
5ah county part of the Genesee COM
nunity that approximately 1000
acres of wheat from this seed was
now growing on clean land in this
section.
The county agent also gave a re-
port on the construction of a septic
tank on the farm of John Hove He
that this tank had been built
as demonstration by the agricul-
,ural engineering department of the
University of Idaho, and that one ad-
1itional tank had already been built
as a result of this demonstration and
hat several others were planned. Mr..
Fletcher pointed out that the demon
stration on Mr. Hove's farm was the
result of the activity and co-opera-
ion of the editor of the Genesee
News. The county agent also ex-
planned what the farm bureau had
lone to relieve the farm labor short
age during harvest.
The farmers present voted to con-
tlnue the three main projects of the
)ast year and to add weed control to
he local program of work Leaders
we're elected as follows: Community
hartman, R. E. Nordby; pest control,
Il. Spurbeck; and livestock improve
nents, J. E. Nordby. Definite goals
or 1921 were set in each project
adopted
The meeting voted to have the Gen
ssee community help finance the pur-
hase of strychnine to be distributed
through the farm bureau and author
zed John Lorang, Fred Hampton and
;. H. Spurbeck to borrow the Gene
Zee quota of the total sum. Follow
ng the meeting these three men bor-
owed 100000 from the Genesee Ex-
hange bank.
The following resolution was unan-
mously adopted:
Whereas, The appropriations com
nittee of the legislature has made a
eavy cut in the budget submitted by
he state department of agriculture
nd
Whereas, We feel that the work of
his department is very important
nd that the efficiency of the depart
lent should be maintained and in
reased and
Whereas, The cut in the budget
alls heavily on the item requested
Or bovine tuberculosis eradication:
nd