The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-02
FARM BUREAU NEWS.
In the County.

AIM BUREAU NEWS.
In the County.
The Farm Bureau will purchase
Amyl Acetate and White Arsenic to
use In poisoning grasshoppers. A
campaign will be carried on and DEM
onstrations given. The Bureau will
also purchase Calcium Arsenate for
weevil control. Anyone interested in
buying these supplies should commu-
nicate with the Farm Bureau office At
once.
Office and telephone calls have been
heavy during the past few weeks.
Many Of the farmers have called to
see where they can get the best seed
to plant and how to treat the seed to
control disease Bingham County far
mers are wide awake to the fact that
1t pays to plant good seed.
Boys and Girls clubs are being or
ganized throughout the county. The
county agent is being assisted in this
work by the Smith-Hughes instruc-
tors from Blackfoot, Aberdeen and
Shelley high schools. The interest in
club work is very keen in most of the
communities and good enrolment
is anticipated. Up to date, over 200
children have been enrolled and the
work is still incomplete.
National Farm Bureau News.
On May II, James R. Howard, Pres
ident of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, appeared in Washington
before joint hearing of the commit
tee on Commerce of the Senate and
the Committee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries Of the House, to present
the views of the Farm Bureau FEEDER
alton on merchant marine.
The Dairy Committee of nine, which
was appointed by E. B. Heaton, Diree-
tor of dairy marketing for the Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation, to
solve the distributing problem con-
fronting the Chicago milk marketing
district, reported on Friday, May H.
A definite plan for reorganizing the
Chicago milk marketing district was
presented. The meeting is regarded
as one of the most important held in
the Chicago district; comprising q
counties in northeastern Illinois, SOU
theastern Wisconsin and northeast
ern Indiana. The committee retained
Aaron Sapiro, noted cooperative at
torney, to help draft the contract and
plan of operation.
new bill has been proposed to
Congress and is receiving the atten-
ton of Senator Capper and the farm
bloc. The bill would create Ma
tional Agricultural Credits Corpora
ton to further aid the farmers in a
financial way.
President Howard addressed the
American Bankers Association at
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, on
May 10. He also addresses the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
in New York City, on May 9th. The
manufacturers got a straight forward
account of the farmers point of view.
Mr.. Howard said:
Like the manufacturer, the farmer
must find market for his product,
and he is now vigorously demanding
/, the right and privilege through his
cooperative organization to market
his product to the ultimate professor
or consumer. The farmer, just as
the manufacturer, must have cost of
production for his product. II he
does not get cost of production he
will be forced to suspend just as
would a factory or any other kind of
manufacturing"
President ]. r. Towards testimony
on the ship subsidy is published by
the government Printing Office as
a q or IF hn Voin uao
before the Senate Committee on Com
merce and the House Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Any
one Rterested may secure copy by
addressing his Senator or Represen-
tative.
The Producers Commission Asso-
citation, the second farmer-owned and
controlled cooperative commission
house to be established under the
auspices of the National Livestock
Producers Association, opened for
business at Indianapolis on May Is.
Indicative of the interest being dis
played in the farmers cooperative is
this fact: Eager shippers consigned
40 carloads to the Producers Com
mission Association during the week
before it opened. Evidently farmers
mean to support the movement.
Commenting on the decision of the
United State Supreme Court holding
the most important provisions of the
Grain Exchange Regulation Law in
valid. Senator Arthur Capper, head of
the farm bloc, says to a representa-
tive OF the American Farm Bureau