The Caldwell tribune., 1922-02-24
FARMERS HOPE
FOR FUTURE To
Be BRIGHT ONE
Diversified Farming and
Cooperative Marketing
Mean New Era For
Idaho.

Thursday was farm bureau day at |
the Kiwanis club luncheon. Men, |
bers of the executive committee of
the farm bureau and number of other |
leaders in farm bureau circles were |
guests of the club. Lee Johnson of
Parma, S. E. Yaggy and Reed Moody
of Nampa, R. H. Young of Roswell
and C. R. Peckham of Wilder, made
brief addresses.
Cooperation as opposed to the old
time idea of individualism was the key
note of every address.
Farmers today occupy the center of
the stage in America, declared Mr..
Yaggy. The nation has come to re-
alize that national prosperity depends
upon the prosperity of the farmer and,
not alone in rural towns and smaller
cities, but every where, the nation
over, the best brains of the United
States are considering the farmers
problems, Mr. Yaggy points out.
Individualism finds its most testy
follower in the farmer himself, finds
the man least willing to give up the
obsolete idea and go ahead cooper
atively, Mr.. Yaggy pointed out. The
farm bureau, working for cooperative
marketing, is doing its utmost to ap-
ply the newer principles of co-opera.
ton.
Mr.. Yaggy dwelt at some length or
, the political phases of the moderr
farm problem. He cited the agricul
tural bloc as the one best evidence
that the program of the American
+, Farm Bureau federation and allied or
ganizations is getting over" Boi
Penrose came in for criticism as
man who, despite every opportunity
e had let old line politics rob him of tn
S opportunity to leave something to pos
terity.
So far as the Canyon county farr
: bureau is concerned, now an organiza
ton embracing almost 1900 member
, Mr.. Yaggy asserted that 1--WE hav
: just begin to work Today the es
It ecutive committee mapped out big
ger program for the coming year. w
e are going ahead"
Similar sentiments were expresse
le by Mr. Peckham who asserted tn:
&c all southern Idaho's population is
9 farming population center.
THE farm bureau will succeed" d.
:, clared Mr.. Peckham, because men
:, bers are determined that it shall su
= . ceed and it is being operated by me
of intelligence who know what tht
!, are after.
- The Canyon county farm bure;
. is not evolving new IDEAS" Mr.. Pee
ham pointed out. "On the contrar
it is simply adopting we'll prov
e ideas from California and Oregon al
:. .lapplyin gthem to local conditions,
!. What farmers require as their pr
- sent goal is more building and lie
>. boosting" declared Mr.. Johnson, I
~ next speaker. "The time of braggi
- and boosting is past; constructive a
"a progressive building must be in ord
:. This county was developed
white folks. 1t is a good count
-. with good schools and fit place
=. which to live" declared Mr.. Johnst
"a warning his hearers against the p,
y sibility of Jap invasion, as a res
of the promise of Boise valley develC
ing into vegetable garden.
IF / have message for you"
said, 1T is that you keep it so, ma
!. it better. Let US leave to those W
'~ follow ineheritance of fertile, produ
i've farms, not a worn out inheritanc
bo An eighty acre farm, following j
f anese tenants, has so little left of
;se Mr.. Johnson humorously declar
..d that a man and his wife wouldn't h;
=, enough left to have a row on.
.c Southwestern Idaho, as a result
nv the activity of the farm bureau,
nv building up the vegetable industry
.h. on the Threshold of an era of pr
,re- perity, Mr. Johnson believes. Fal
ing will be revolutionized as a re.
NM of these new crops. Grain and
of must go, the speaker said, and
one crops of tomorrow will be those
ook southern Idaho farmers spurned
All years ago.