The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-13
new COUNTY COMMISSIONERS CONVENE:
ACTIVE SESSION CONFR0NTS BOARD
Farm Bureau Asks Appropriation of $500 for
Years Work of Cooperation;
Needs for County Nurse
Discussed

On Monday afternoon, after tn
new officers had taken the oath o
Office, the commissioners settle,
down to q session giving their frs
audience to representatives Of tn
farm bureau. The new commits
sioners are w. T. England, chairmal
and Nelson Miller of Shelley AM
John R. Williams of Thomas. Hamil
ton Wright is the new prosecuting
attorney and Mrs. Margaret Ward
! county treasurer and Leslie Wilson
Aberdeen, her deputy. The rest o
the official family remain the sam'
as before.
e. w. Stephens, county agent, R
F. Wilkie, Eric Sundquist, A. D
Fitch and Arthur Manwaring mem
bers of the board of directors fol
the farm bureau were present anC
presented the plans of the year fol
farm bureau work to the commits
sioners asking for an appropriation
of $500 for the years work. Mr.
Stephens was the spokesman and
said that the membership of the
farm bureau had always been 81 a
year, but they had re-organized il
few weeks ago with the member
ship fee at $25 year, the purpose
being to have the members none
other than practical farmers and
stockmen and to have them finance
the farm bureau since the bureau
was conducted entirely for their
benefit. Heretofore they had So
licited membership from everybody
regardless of what line of business
they had been in and that when a
man had paid 81 for membership the
financial support contained in the
dollar was hardly enough to amount
to anything so they still have to rely
on the taxpayers of all classes to
finance the farm bureau thru the
county treasury. This was all we'll
enough during the early years while
getting the bureau organized and
into operation but it would be unjust
continue to tax people of all voca-
tions to conduct the work of the
farm bureau for the benefit of farm
ers and Stockmen. Another change
made in the plans this year is that
those who sign up for a $25 men,
bership do so with the understand
ing that it covers a term of years,
but they have the privilege of with
drawing at the close of any year
by giving notice to the bureau. On
the old plan they have to spend
part of their time each year conduct
ing a membership campaign that
brought in very little money even tho
they succeeded in getting large num-
bers of members. This wasted a
great deal of time on the part of the
men conducting the bureau work
who is member is en-
titled to call upon the farm bureau
'or services and 1t looks like poor
distribution of the service of the Of
ice to deny one man service because
le has not paid dollar and deliver
service to another man because he |
lid pay the small sum of a dollar |
when the services may be worth
many times that. On the new plan
he service will be extended to every
,ody that is member, the member
ship fee is to be $25 and it will
lraw the line sharply between those
Who are supporting the work and
hose who are not. The activities Of |
he bureau have been worth a great
leal to those who have availed them
elves of it's service and it is time
nen were deciding whether they
wanted the service of the bureau or
lot.
The Activities of the Bureau
The activities of the bureau con-
lists of trying to secure greater pro-
luction in crops and animals and
o educational work teaching people
low to farm and do the other things
hat are necessary to the agricultural
Industries.
There will be number of diff
rent branches of the work. For
Instance, there is the marketing of
rops after they are produced which
S an important part of agriculture.
t is not enough to produce crops
md meat products and then put
hem on a market where they shall
q sacrificed. The task of market
ng them will be attended to by the
arm bureau to some extent. During
he past year they gave considerable