The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-03-30
STATE FARM BUREAU
MEETING HELD AT BOISE

The Second Annual meeting OF
the Idaho State Farm Bureau was
held in Boise on March 8, 10, and
II. The meeting was very lively
and great, deal Of business was &C
complished. Committees were ap.
pointed to take up the different ag-
ricultural problems, and reports
were submitted to the meeting by
these committees.
A constructive program of work
was arranged for the coming year
by the committee appointed for that
purpose. The report presented by
this committee follows:
When your committee convened,
it was discovered that its several
members were quite conversant with
the problems confronting the agri-
cultural producers of the State OF
Idaho, having been identified with
the various phases of agricultural
production, distribution and mar
keting for a number of years. It is
our belief that many Of the embar-
rassmehts and handicaps which in
tercept the progress OF the agricul-
tural workers of our country and
defeat the realization of their laud-
able ambitions in the development Of
the agricultural interests of the
state and nation will yield to a care
fully thought-out program of pro-
cedure for their solution. Having
made study of these conditions in
Idaho and the relation of the Idaho
Farm Bureau Federation to the
problems presented by these condi-
tions we desire to present the fol-
lowing recommendations as a per-
manent program Of procedure of
consistent cintinuity for the Idaho
Farm Bureau Federation for the flu
ture:
1. ADMINISTRATION-we rec
ommend that in addition to their
regular duties as defined by the con-
stitution, the president, four vice.
presidents, secretary, treasurer, and
executive committee, shall be the re-
sponsible authorities for the carry
ing out of the program of work of
the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation
outlined below, and that they make
such appointments within the pro-
vince of their authority and discre-
ton as may be necessary to attain
the essential detectives of this pro-
gram.
II. ORGANIZATION - We rec
ommend that the Idaho Farm Bu-
reau Federation labor to attain the
objects Of the organization ais de-
fined in article of the constitution
to develop, strengthen, and correl-
ate the work of the several county
organizations of the Federation, CIV
ing particular attention to the sub
ject of securing the largest men,
bership possible, to the end that
each county organization may he an
efficient unit to cooperate with the
Idaho Farm Bureau Federation in
working to attain the objects of this
program. N
We recommend that the executive
committee appoint project leaders
for the following projects: potatoes,
beets, other commercial vegetables
(lettuce, caulifower, onions, celery,
etc. wheat and other grains, sheep
and wool, clover and alfalfa seed,
fruit, dairy and poultry, beef cat
tie and swine.
III. NFORMATION-we recon-
mend that the executive committee
create a Department of Information
whose duty it shall be to collect and
distribute to the newspapers over
the State Of Idaho, and to the var
ious farm Bureau organizations,
and the allied organizations, news
and information pertaining to the
Farm Bureau activities.
We recommend that the Depart
ment of Information secure as wide
a circulation as possible in the
State Of Idaho, of the official organ
of the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton.
And we further recommend that
the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation
employ and encourage the several
county organizations to employ the
news columns of the various news
papers oyer the state to set forth
the detectives in prospect and the
achievements attained by all branch
es Of the Farm Bureau organiza-
ton, to the end that these may re-
ceive as wide publicity as possible,
and thereby educate farmers in par
ticular, as we'll as the public in gen.
eral, to the essential needs Of ag-
riculture and the methods Of secur-
ing the same.
We also recommend that the state
and county organizations cooperate
with the University of Idaho, the
Extension Department, and the I'm
tied States Department of Agricul-
ture, in the dissemination of knowl-
edge with reference to all questions
Of agricultural production as well
as any other information that may
prove Of value to the citizens of the
state.
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