The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-03-23
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and nurse, the writer made the state
ment that the $4,000 spent for agen-
and nurse could have been applied OF
the roads that we must have, anl
that we have no need of those Officers
whatever
/ cannot conceive what kind of s
man it would be that would want tc
travel road built at the sacrifice OF
our children's health and education
Last fall at our county fair child
took sick on the fair grounds and 4
crowd gathered around her, but not
one offered to help. The county nurse
was called and she took care of her
Now, suppose that was your child and
you were not there to help and had
taken the money you paid the county
nurse and applied it on the roads and
your child was there needing help and
there was no one to help her. Could
you say, Here, fire the nurse and let
me keep the go cents she cost me, or
apply it on the roads, and let my
child get out of her predicament the
best way she can, or take chances on
somebody helping herg" (Which they
did not do). This is exactly what you
said when you signed a petition
against the county nurse. You may
not have liked the nurse personally,
but did you ever stop to think that
Christ was the only perfect person
that ever lived and He lived 1000
years ago and people are still finding
fault with Hims What kind of a
nurse and county agent would they
have to be to please everyone7
That writer seems to ask the ques-
tion, els it possible for nurse to
look at child time or two and see
more ailments than the child 8 mother
could9" If she could not, what
would be the use of years of study,
and why do you call doctor when
you are sick, if you know the trouble
and what to do every timeg He also
says, "The tonsils taken out is the
same as killing the police because
thief got away with your money"
Why nots You'll hang the bank di-
rectors because the cashier got away
with your money.
1t seems to me that Lewis county
(sorry to say) has few farmers that
are everlastingly pulling back. They
are the ones that built up this country,
but they bucked when the tramway
was built; they kicked about the new
county; they let the other fellow put
up for the railroad and if they did do
anything, everybody knew it. The
Farmers Union was a fake; the
Rochdale graft; the farm bureau al
political scheme and they were hoo
dooed into paying a county nurse mad
agent just to help the county.
I was talking to farmer the other
day and he said, "I'm not Dragging,
but while / have made money in hogs,
my boys have just put it all over me.
They got the County Agent out there
and he taught them what to look for
and how to pick out good hog. II
sent one of them to hog sale and he
brought home the best one that was
sold. I don t know a hog when see
one, but the boys do and / I'm going
to give the credit where it belongs,
to the County Farm Agent" These
boys have proved their knowledge of
hogs for they came home with the
blue ribbons from Spokane as well as
from our county fairs. The farmers
as a rule cannot be shown. You can
stack farm bulletins around them a
foot high, but they will not answer the
question the farmer wants to know.
A majority of our chronic kickers
are men that are about ready to quit
the active scene of life. They want the
rising generation to do like they did
The young farmers that have come in
the last few years have been taught
agriculture to a degree, in school while
a majority of the middle-aged have
learned only from experience, but
they must produce as big crop, know
how to pick out good stock, etc., or
they will soon be out of the farming
game, unless they have farm given
to them; then it will hustle them to
make a living, while younger man
with some agricultural knowledge will
buy a farm along side of them and
pay for it off his farm. This middle
aged farmer, as rule, has not the
means to go to school now, and the
only way he has of learning is from
his neighbor and he cannot afford to
stop ad run all over the county look
ing for the man who has been the
most successful in the particular thing
be wants to know, for the small
amount the county agent costs him.
Of course we can write to the expert
ment station, but / believe we have
farmers right here that have had bet
ter success on certain things than our
station has. While the
experiment station is necessary In
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