Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-12-13
SMALL FARM AID
IN SOLVING LOW
PRICE ON WHEAT

"S~nh.
81 was certainly surprised upon a
irving in Grangeville to learn tn;
there is no creamery here and thu
farmers in this part of Idaho are M
taking the interest in dairying, pou
try raising and diversified farmin
that is being manifested in many othe
sections of Idaho" said ]. e. Messy
of Boise, staff representative of tn
Idaho Farmer, Spokane who was il
'Grangeville Monday gathering data TO
U.s. in articles TO appear in the Idah'
Farmer.
Il had haped to see much advance
ment in dairying in Idaho county since
my last visit, for l thought then, and
l think it more now, that this is an
ideal dairy country and that dairying
Oculd be made a profitable side line
to many big wheat farms of Idaho
county.
Dairying Profitable Elsewhere
This is being done in many sections
/ spent some time recently in Whitman
county, Wn., the greatest wheat pro-
ducing county tin the United States,
where 13,O00,00O bushels of wheat
were produced this year, and l find
luul ilduy VI tut WHEAT
who are farming 1000 a. Il more acres
and have, until recently, raised moth
ing but wheat and other grains, are
now going into dairying. Several of
these have been milking cows and
feeding hogs as a side line to their
wheat farming, for two years The
fact that they are adding to the num-
Der of cows and hogs kept on their |
farms and improving the quality of |
both, by breeding up through the use
of purebred sires, is sufficient evidence |
that they have found that these side |
lines pay.
1--WE hear people predict that dairy
ing will be overdone; that there will |
be over-production of dairy products
/ don't believe that condition will face
us for a long time In the fiscal year
ended June 30 1923, the production of
butter in the United States Increased
100,000,000 pounds. That might seem
to indicate that there is danger of II
Over-productiOn If it were not for the Il
fact that the same report that tells
of the increased production of 10O,-
100000 pounds of butter says the con-
sumption increased 100000 900 pounds
and that this country imported co.
100000 pounds more butter in the year
ended June 30, 1923, than in any pre-
ceding year. AS long as consump-
ton increases faster than production
there seems little danger of over-pro-
duction.
Ice Cream Big Item
Looking backward, let us see how
much ice cream we consumed a i,w
years ago 1t has not been many
years since ice cream was luxury
which we had only very few times
a year. Now nearly all first-class
hotels and restaurants serve it as
desert every day in The year and ice
cream parlOrs are as thick as gaso-
line service stations.
Idaho is wonderful state rich /
N varied resources of agriculture.
timber and mineral wealth. but no
county in the state is richer in all
If these than Idaho county. Many 4
counties have more of one, but none /
has more of all of these resources.
We are passing through a period of
depression in agriculture and many
ines of business but men well post
q on these matters declare the bot
ON has been eaclld AM W. .lra IN u
he upward grade. II seems certain y
hat times will change and that the n
len who have held on during the q
rying years since 1920 will be able n
pull through in the next few M
ears.
Il think Idaho. county needs more
airy cows, more good hogs. more
Ood poultry-both laying hens and
a greater variety of
ops. If the low prices for wheat II
nd lack of profit in wheat farming
suit in the division of some of Ida
} county's big farms into several
rms of from eighty to 160 acres.
it'll family on each, and each of n
csc families produces enough of
erything that can be produced here
+ its own needs and some of each
oduct to sell, this county will be in u
tier condition than at present.
Idaho county needs, above every ,
Ing else, more population-more
miles who cali operate their farms
thout hired help, and can produce
re wealth per acre than is now be-
produced and keep a larger por.
n of it at hone instead of paving
out for expensive hired help. Ida.
county is all right. II has
ght future before lit and on.yl
DIS few changes that will come
time, to to make it the greatest
richest countS in Idaho"
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