American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-05-12
C. BEN ROSS, SECRETARY STATE
FARM BUREAU CLAIMS THAT
NATURAL SOIL OF SOUTHERN
IDAHO is THE FOOT OF THE
RAINBOW.
INVESTIGATION MEANS
Dairying, Poultry and Hogs Needed to
Put Profit Into Farming Stabilize
Communities That Depend ON One
or Two Crops.

Idaho can be made prosperous in
these times of Depression says G. Ben
Ross, Secretary, Idaho Farm Bureau
Federation.
All new wealth must come out of
the soil and LIVESTOCK.
We are all looking ahead to pros
porous times Farmers, business
; men, great corporations, and the citi-
zens of every village and city in the
country are in the position of the boy
walking past the cemetary on a dark
night, they are whistling optimism,
which is good and wholesome, never
theless the return of prosperity in
Idaho depends on Just two things, first
that the farmers of the State raise
good crops, because all new wealth
comes out of the soil and live stock,
second that he receives cost of produc-
tfon plus profit.
One Crop Farmers.
1t is an evident fact that the major
ity of our farmers are one or two crop
men, which is all we'll and good if he
is raising crops for which there is an
active demand and sells above the
cost of production plus a reasonable
rate of interest on his investment
over a term of years, but the farmer
who raises hay and grain as his major
crop will find that he is on the wrong
side of the ledger Twelve principle
crops in Idaho only brought sixty
four dollars in 1921, and those crops
ON a whole were produced at loss to
the farmer, and one of the reasons
for this situation is, the farmers per-
sist in raising one or two crops, the
remedy is diyersification, intensified
tion and rotation of crops, live stock,
the Cow the Pig and the Hen.
There are two counties in Southern
Idaho that are reasonably prosperous
The majority of their farmers have a
monthly income, the banks are in
good shape. They have the money to
finance the production of this years
crops. Some of them haven't a dollar
of rediscount paper in their institu
ton Dairy, poultry and hogs
brought into one of these counties
$4,000, 100000 last year. Ask. any
travelling saleman who makes the
towns in Southern Idaho which coun-
ties they are, he will tell you without
a moments thought, ask him which
town in these counties is the most
prosperous, then investigate and you
will find that $1,200,000 was paid to
the farmers of the surrounding coun-
try for dairy products. Every County
in Idaho can be made prosperous, in
these times of depression, If we can
get the proper cooperation from the
business man and farmers. 1t is cost
ing us lot to educate our young peo
pie, but from the fact that we older
enes lack the proper education is
costing us twice as much as 1t is to
conduct our schools. The salvation of
this country depends on us, and the
implements are right here If we could
only be made to see the possibilities
we have here at home, on the farms
of Idaho.
Need Educating.
II must be brought about through
education to induce our farmers
to grow money crops. In 1921
twelve principle crops, sixty-four mil
lion dollars, of which there was but
very little, If any profit to the pro-
Queer. Three of our crops should
bring monre than that amount. Dairy
$30,000,000, hogs $20,000,000 of which
over fiVe-million would be made from
waste that is lost to the farmer, TO the
community, the State and to society
in general Poultry $40,0OO,00O of
which fifteen million would be profit
and ten million, products raised on
the farms and sold, through the hens.
The other ten principle crops should
bring as much, or more, than they did
in 1921, then our $4,000 farmers and
every other business in Idaho would
be prosperous.
Why do we look away, in the dis
tnace, to Congress, the War finance
and the end of the rainbow, when the
hnckef of gold laws at OUR feet