The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-30
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nam county Farm bureau, forty o.
the men of the county who have
been thinking agriculturally and IL
the line of betterments, and they
will be asked to outline q plan Of
operation in this county to do fol
several branches of agriculture
what the Grimm growers have done
and are doing for the pure seed in
dustry.
The company will sit down to 6
banquet that is being planned by
Oscar Neuman and his lieutenailts
and 1t is rumored that it is to be
different. 1t has been hinted that II
will be an example Of real nourish.
ment and possibly not too many
frills. Following the repast several
persons will say something one after
another, and there will be opportun.
ity for responses. The men who
speak will say things that suggest
in agriculture a departure from old
methods in certain respects that
suggest in agriculture a departure
from old methods in certain respects
that might be likened to the diff
ference between the duck hunter
who makes flock shots as compared
with the one who picks his bird and
gets him without Gripping several
others and leaving them to heal up
IT they can without presenting ugly
sores to be carved out by some other
hunter who gets the wounded ones
later. 1t will be in line with the
work of the club boy and the club
girl who select the seed carefully
and make all the connecting links
with care and skill between seed
time and harvest. What has been
done on small scale that showed
large profits can be done by many on
a moderate scale and show profits.
AS the methods come to be tested
and understood, larger volume Of
operation can be attempted.
They will undertake to organize
the marketing end of the business
in such ways as are practical. This
year we have raised a perishable
crop that is very heavy and must be
rushed on the market promptly or
stored at great expense and risk,
and we think it is hard luck that we
have no money. But the way is
open to us to raise alfalfa and
clover seeds that are neither perish
able nor heavy and bulky as COM
pared with potatoes, and it is possi-
BILE to market those things at any
time Of the year and the freight on
the goods does not absorb it. It is
possible to raise hay and convert it
into cheese and ship the cheese at
small freight cost as compared with
shipping the hay, yet we have been
crying out against the high freight
rate on hay when it is not profitable
to ship even If we could split the
freight in half, which is not at all
likely to happen. There are several
ways to use up our heavy, bulky
products and convert them into con-
centrated values so the freight rates
will not impress us, and 1t is the
purpose of the farm bureau banquet
to do some constructive planning to
get to operating that way and have
conditions steadily improving as we
carry the plans more extensively
into effect.
OhO VI IlC AulPOl tduI tAluSS tudt
will be discussed at the farm bureau
banquet at Blackfoot on Tuesday
evening, Dec. 10 will be raising
standard potatoes that will be recog-
nized by their grade and pedigree
the same as purebred stock is recog-
nized on paper without the trouble
of going to where they are and look
ing at them and keeping them under
observation. NG Jl5
Idaho men have done enough
work to have made considerable
money on potatoes while declaring
that II they can sell them at fair
price three years In four they can
make a good average return for
their toll. The trouble is that by
reason of the abundance of the pro-
duce none Of it is now selling at
much IL any profit, and the fourth
year is the one that makes the
losses, introduces conditions that
breed disease and bring on general
collapse.
F. w. Carter, president of the
Idaho State Seed Show says:
idaho should and can average
400 bushels of potatoes per acre on
her irrigated farms. She has in
dividual records of twice these fig
ures. Her soil and climate are
capable of producing the highest
yields and best quality of potatoes
Of any other state in the Union.
fertilizers are actually
valueless on most of her lands. That
she has not reached this high aver
age is by reason of the fact that a |
large majority of her farmers have
not observed the following es-
sentials Of high class farming, to
wit: Proper crop rotations, good
seed, correct planting and good cul-
tural methods.
If each grower would analyze his
costs, he probably would not figure
himself very much profit over a
period of years from yields falling
much below $50 bushels per acre
md 1t is my belief that time will
eliminate the grower falling we'll
lnder these figures.
"The potato industry in Idaho
las been hard hit this year by rea-
ION Of low prices. High yields and
ligh quality, which usually go to-
,ether, are the best means of reduc-
ng losses during lean years and, of
course, will make greater profits
Turing years Of high prices.
"All phases of the potato industry