The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-04-04
EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL
"Only he who loves truth for its
own sake can endure hardships for
it." The foregoing is taken from The
Idaho Churchman, and if %pondered
makes clear a lot of things which
many men do not understand. 1t tells
in a few words why a man of ability
works untiringly as leader of a
church congregation, for a salary al
most meager eliminating all chance
for financial success, limiting the OPP
portunities of his family, SO far as
the enjoyment of the things which
money buys is concerned. 1t tells the
story of the building of thousands of
church homes which dot the entire
United States and it tells the reason
why young men and women, with the
brightest prospects, will turn their
backs on their native land and give
their lives to work among the heather
of darkest Africa. 1t explains why
men will sacrifice everything which
is looked upon as attractive by the
average person, in order to further
some cause in which they believe, re-
ligious or political, and explains why
victory so often perches upon the
banner of a cause which at the be-
ginning looks worse than hopeless.
1t overcomes obstacles which nothing
else could overcome and is the worlds
tower of strength.
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The attractive offers made for Mos
cows $35, 900 bond issue, is proof of
the very best kind that Moscow paper
is considered gilt edge. With thir-
teen firms bidding for the bonds, it
also proves that money is seeking
Investment, which is always proof
that financial conditions are not par
~ticularly bad.
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WASTING THE FAT.
The following editorial from The
Idaho Statesman expresses the diver
sified farming idea in a way which
should bring many farmers to a rea-
~lization of the opportunity they are
overlooking:
A federal land bank appraiser, in
terviewed at Nampa the other day,
said that livestock-the cow, the pig,
the hen and sheep-are the back
bone of the agricultural industry in
Idaho. And he added this:
The rancher who now has
money is not the man who limits
his business strictly to vegetable
and field crops, but the man
whose business is founded on live
stock. |.
Idaho's attention is being called re-
peatedly to this fact that her farms
will pay we'll only when they are
permitted to produce up to their
capacity, a capacity which a be
reached only through Investigation,
or, if you please, utilization of farm
.by-products.
Manufacturing industries have not
failed to see the money in by-pro-
ducts. Few great factories today sell
just one class Of product. Most of
them keep discovering new commodi-
ties to be manufactured out of the
waste materials and so double their
Incomes.
The farm is a factory. 1t is cap ,
able Of producing so much hay, so
much wheat or so much potatoes out
of the raw material Of fertile earth, s
water and sunshine. But when it's |
capacity has been reached on these
the far-seeing farmer knows Z
that it can still produce at it's already
established plant, eggs and milk pro- G
ducts, meat and wool. And very of
ten these, not the primary crops of
the farm, supply the profit in farm L
Ing.
.Diversification is utilizing by-pro-
1ucts, spare time, unused space, odds :
and ends of equipment and povisions.
it is more, too. 1t is market in
The man who has cattle,
pigs, chickens and sheep is not ruined !,
the bottom drops out of the s.
lay, wheat, or potato market. He y
onverts his unmarketable crops into g
,eef, pork, mutton, dairy products,
WOOL, eggs. He finds new markets in y
way. And often he finds that his q
compressed and condensed in O
D such new products is more pro-
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cts. ~
The man who farms with livestock &c
bound to have money il there is
ny to be had. The man who puts r.
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