The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-03-16
NELSON FAvoRs NO AGENT, NO
HEALTH SERVICE.

ctulA rClt IL " O''N~~ \
neer of the lower Central Ridge sec
ton, gives his views in detail on tn
question of county farm agent and
public health nurse for Lewis county
and appears as he wrote it:
Oscarsborg, Steele p. o., Idaho, Feb
90, 1922.
To Nezperce Herald.
Dear Editor: 1 request that yo'
print the following article from M
and my friends as Taxpayers o.
Lewis county
From time to time / seen in the Her
aid some remarks-made Because oul
Honorable County Commissioners q,
of them Mr. Lowry and Mr. Ruble, hac
the feeling toward US taxpayers as
Farmers friend under this pressing
times. 1sThank You Sirs as well from
me as from hundreds of Others That
you regardless of few dark eyes
looking at you, took the stepps to diss-
conteen the County Agent and County
Nurse, If this been done long ago II
would saved the taxpayers from to
5000 Dollors, This neat little sum could
been APPLIED on the Roads that we must
have, while the County Agent and
Nurse was absolutely of no need what
ever, Because we got so far that we
got fund with our Government to sup
ly us with Any Bullitines in any
branch of Agriculture that we may
wish, Free of Charge" and from our
own station at Moscow as well as from
any experiment Station in the United
States, What more do we need and we
don t need County Agent to do this
writings for us the most of us has
learned that much and those that has
not, any friend will help them out for
cent stamp, This is different than
to pay an Agent about $500 Dollars a
year for such little doings, 1t seems SO
that few consider US Farmers as ig
norant and helpless That we really
need County Agent like the Indians
to do our writings for us and boss us
around, Such an Agent would boss you
pulling Weeds, But no danger he for
the sallery of 1000 would putt on a
single days work to save the poor
farmers back for what he was paying
him yearly, But of cource farmer IS
a man in the deart and he needs boss,
no matter if he works night and day
for keeping on boss and paying his ex-
pences, Another great thing / heard
the Agent speak of in the Schools
were Chickenlice, Is it really any
farmer that don't know what Chick
en- lice looks likes And if so the Ex-
pertinent Station at Moscow will IL
lustrate it But guess very few will
wait on hearing about such, AS they
will get ridd of them as soon as they
find them or any other lice, 1t is q
wonder how a few line up for grating
and bleeding the farmers, They so
called, educational guy that the farm
ers money in the first place put in the
Schools and after being little while
at High Schools they soon seen an cas-
Ter way to bleed the farmer than to
work for him This been keeping on.
stepp for stepp under this 26 years /
been here I as well as others on this
wild prairie we grinding our flour on
coffemills for bread No roads or bridg-
es we had to haul our products to
Lewiston, / had the first Mail Cor
tract here starting voluntarily from
Nezperce, only two little board houses
was representing Nezperce at the time
Than / carried the mail from Peck
river to Steele, times week 40 miles
a day for one dollar and twenty cents
for me and my horses, No one to oct
me a meal and no roads Are we in
TITLED to have burden taken of us,
or should it be heavier9 Afterward
when we struggled along and got
ahead a little A suggestion on splitting
our County was made from our friends
not only in two but in three with s.
bubble PERSONAL to keep paid from
this one counties taxpayers. This was
claimed great benefit of our friend the
higher class and of course we had to
obey, Then came the County Seat
question up and we worked hard to get
it to Nezperce Thinking we would be
remembered for this action, ''And so
we are, only in different manner
than we expected, Anything we buy
at our county seat is high, and every
thing we got to sell in town is cheap
But if any inducement for the town
is needed, The farmer is called upon,
The man that don't know enough to
write to an experiment station without
having a County Agent to do it for
him for only $500 dollars year and
free rides over the county Mr. d VI
Dowd has laid out something great for
us in figures that he dreamed one
night in Spokane after eating little
too heavy supper, ssWhat sweet
dreaml" Prof Dowd advices us poor
farmers of our mistakes but if 1 was
in his place and owned farm L would
never let it be known that l did not