The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-05-06

pose-that of providing the settlement with
permanent supply of farm help and also of raising
the standard of general farm help to a higher
level
The farm Iaborers of the settlement were en-
abled to earn from $3.50 to $3.50 per day, with
board. $3.50 without board Carpenters were
paid 1925 per day of eight hours and were en-
abled to improve their aotments outside of the
working hours
These settlement farm aborers have the option
of either working inside outside If the colony
They are permitted as they are financial
ly competent TO purchase larger farms, and thus
become proprietary or employing farmers.
The offices of the California state land settle
ment board do not with the buying
and selling of this land leaving the settlers to
shift for themselves. The most important work
comes after the settlers havs selected farms and
have begun the arduous task of producing
enue that will enable them to pay for and equip
their new homes
Expert Advice Tap.
The board does all in its power to guide the
collective work of the settlement along safe lines
supplying farm advisers farmstead engineers and
other experts to help the good work along 1t is
the plan of the board to assist the settlement in
welding itself into successful cooperative
n.unity, and to inaugurate system of the most
scientific and up-todate cultural and adminstra
tive methods.
At the very outset the Durham settlers organ
lied cooperative stock breeders association
This was done with the prime object of making
the settlement the home of purebred live stock
The board incuIcated the idea of uniform selec
ton of breeds so that there should be no unto
ward mixing of blood.
II was agreed that there should be but one or
two breeds of cattle, sheep and hogs in the asso-
citation For cattle the Holstein adopted as
the type for dairy stock and shorthorns for beef
purposes DurOc Jerseys selected as the
desirable type of hogs. and the Romney Marsh
and RambouiIlet for the sheep breeds The exec
utive committee of the Settlement Cooperative
Live Stock association has done nearly all the
buying of live stock for the settlers thus simpli
flying and expedting matters.
Instead of leaving each of the 120 families,
composing the settlement, to buy material find
worImen and secure designs for their dwellings
and farm buildings the board took it upon itself
TO lend most welcome helping hand. 1t aided
the settlers In their purchase of fencing material,
cement, lumber pipe, ETC., in carload lots, thus
saving the new farmers much labor trouble and
insuring them the best of material at lowest
prices.
The plans for the new farmhouses and their
proper location on the respective farms were
worked out with much care by the farmstead en-
gineer under the eye of the farmer and his wife
and I'm cooperation with them In fact all the
important details of farm improvement and farm
methods have been carried out under the advice
of the boards experts free to the settlers Moth
ing in the community has been done In a loose or
haphazard manner and under this modus operandi
a model farm community was evolved in less
than one year
Help on the First Crop.
In the meantime practical farm development
was taken I'D soil maps consulted fields orchards
and gardens laid out, and crop production ar
ranged The board has made itself the friend and
counselor Of each settler, and has been unstinting