The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1921-12-21
Creel Speaks at
Farm Convention
Project Heads Report to Members
At Annual Meeting Of Churchill
County Farm Bureau
MANY PROGRESSIVE STEPS
URGED BY LOCAL LEADERS
Officers for Coming Year Elected;
Glacier Chosen President 10
Succeed 5. j. Rogers

THE farm bureau is q machine
by which the members of the organ
ization can accomplish results other
wise impossible" said G. w. Creel.
director of the agricultural exten-
sion department Of the University of
Nevada, in speaking at the second
annual convention of the Churchill
county farm bureau. Farm bureau
work requires self sacrifice on the
part OF all concerned, but the re-
suits obtained are well worth the ef
fort, he continued. In speaking of
the adverse condition the farmers
frequently have to face Creel stated
that in 1892 every market was be-
low the cost of production.
The necessity of diversified farm
ing was emphasized by the speaker
The alfalfa quarantine is inevitable.
he said, and will probably be effect
ed in two or three years. AS q re-
suit it is imperative that the farm
ers must produce other crops.
Creel also told of the work that
the farm bureau has done In the
past in helping the farmers obtain
favorable markets and just legisla-
tion. He said that the farm bureau
aided in the obtaining of a tariff on
wool. Prices on hay and cattle have
also been advanced, due to the farm
bureau organization, he said.
The annual budget was then read
by Creel. The budget provides for
expenditures aggregating $8,401 for
1922. a full time secretary for the
bureau is provided for
Reports were given by the leaders
of the community projects. A. D.
Bottom, vice president of the organ
ization presided at the meeting In
the absence of s. J. Rogers, presi-
dent. Mrs. v. Fulkerson, secretary
OF the association gave a report.
War; Gives Report
Ernest War;, director of the farm
and range project, reported in part
as follows:
Purpose: To increase produc-
tion and improve agricultural meth
DDS and practices on the farms and
to determine ways and means of
conserving and increasing the car
rying capacity of the ranges.
1.-THE alfalfa weevil situation is
serious. 1t being pointed out by
leading etomologists and by the
farmers eonversant with the spread
of this insect; that it is a matter of
but two or three years before the
infested area includes Churchill
county.
This then means the Importance
of intensive farming and of such
crops as sugar beets, potatoes, can
taloupes and other truck is the all
important one to occupy the mind
of Churchill county farmers.
Talks on Beets
''The beet sugar factory authori-
ties promise that the factory will
run next year. They promised this
last year and many wondered II the
factory would really run. 1t has
run to the loss of farmers and fac
tory owners alike.
AT recent meeting of the COM
mercial club, leading farmers while
claiming loss agreed to plant a
larger acreage of beets for next
years factory run. Four thousand
acres can be planted to beets, which
will be a big item in the rotation Of
our fields.
Urges Equitable Contract
Zone thing that must be estab-
lished here and which was put
across by the State Farm Bureau of
Utah is a. more equitable contract
for the growers.
This contract should be based
on the sugar contents of beets. The
Utah contract is follows: A pay
ment of $3.50 per ton will be made
on the 18th of each month for beets
delivered the previous month. This
is for beets containing IA per cent
of sugar If sugar is $3.50 per hun
dred and on the other hand IL the
beets contain Is per cent OF sugar.
grower to receive s6.10 per ton or
under contracts.
Intensity Agricultural System
Peas, beans, corn, tomatoes, as
pargus and celery can be grown SO