The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24

benefit. He, as q heavy taxpayer
had reached the conclusion that he
was not receiving benefits worth
mentioning and that there was q
great waste of money by the farm
bureau.
Mr.. Scott cut in with an inquiry
as to how much Of that $4,000 Mr.
Just had paid. Just replied that he
had paid his share in all they as
sessed him. Mr.. Scott asked FOL
further information. Mr.. Just had
said in his preliminary remarks that
he was ready to answer any ques.
ticns that might be directed to him
and now Mr.. Scott had a question to
direct straight at Mr.. Just Just how
many dollars and how many cents
had he paid into the county treasury
to be used in operating the farm
bureau? Mr.. Just said he had paid
his share; Mr.. Scott retorted that
that was not answering his question /;
II Mr.. Just was q man ready to give
out Information he would like to
have him stand and tell just how
much Of his own money had been
used by the farm bureau, or as he
had said, wasted by the farm bureau.
Mr.. Just replied that he paid $4,000
taxes: Scott interrupted to say that
$4,000 Of Mr.. Just's money did not
90 into the farm bureau expense
fund. He wanted to know just how
many dollars and how many cents,
the bureau had cost Mr.. Just in the
year 1920. Mr.. Just confessed that
he did not know; Mr.. Scott retorted,
II do know and l will tell you," and
then reading from a paper he held
in his hands he showed what Mr..
Just was assessed and how much
taxes he paid and that 50 is all that
the farm bureau cost this man who
had paid $4,000 taxes and was COM
planning. Mr.. Scott told him that If
be were going to take the floor and
lay complaints against the farm bur-
eau, he should enter complaints for
SO worth, not $4,000; that neither
he nor the county nor the state nor
the federal government had turned
over $4,000 to the farm bureau, but
all of them together had turned in
that amount and 1t was up to the
different departments and the differ
ent persons who had supplied money
to each speak for their pro ratio of
the money turned into that account.
Until Mr.. Just was authorized to
speak for the others he could only
speak 50 worth.
In the course of this controversy
it was easy to take the measure of
the sympathies of the house and to
see that it was farm bureau house
for they applauded Mr.. Scott Justify
and applauded when Mr.. Just was
cornered or partly cornered. The
applause at the different points in
the repartee indicated that the house
stood about to l for farm bureau.
Mud Lake Man Talks
John R. Foulk, who lives at Mud
Lake, but formerly lived in this
county and still owns property here,
got into the discussion by saying that
he wanted to make few. remarks
to remind them that farm bureau
work was educational work in a
large measure and that they should
not expect the farm bureau to come
back at the end of the year with a
showing of dollars and cents for
everything they had done during the
year. He said that the people would
not expect that of the school man
seement. nor of the management of
the churches and that it was all edu-
cational work in a measure.
Mr.. Just talked several times and
at one time stated that during the
olden times If mans cattle got the
,iackleg, it was up to him and the
department of agriculture and a
veterinarian if there was one, to find
out how to cure it or apply the
remedies that were always ready in
the department Of agriculture and to
be had for the asking. Now the
farm bureau had come along and was
duplicating the service at closer
range and they vaccinated anybody's
cattle that asked for it and it was
a great waste because many of the
cattle Yaccinated did not need it.
He has been in the cattle business
since he was ten years old and had
had some experience with the black
leg. The last time it got into his
herd he did not know what was the
matter and lost a good many before
he found out just what to do for
them, but he cleaned up the herd and
stamped out the disease just as any
other man could do if he were at
tending to his business. He wanted
the farm bureau to show that they
had done something worth while
hat was not duplication of some
other service. A gentleman sitting
near him, Thompson by name, said
he wanted to give his experience, cit
ing one case where the farm bureau
had done good service. He was
new man in the country, having been
here only three years and had gone
into agricultural pursuits without
previous experience, having been en-
gagged in business before coming
here. He went out and bought four
teen heifers to put on his farm and
soon after that found something was
wrong with them. He consulted. the
county agent and learned right away
that it was blackleg and was in
structed as to what to do for them.
One thing that impressed him was
that the county agent Instructed to
destroy the bodies by burning or
burying and not to leave them ex-
posed or let them get into the river.
One or two Of the animals had al
ready got into the river and they
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