Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-02-22
A|NEY TELLS OF
MOVABLE SCHOOL

To the Editor of the Enterprise
The Movable school held by the
u. l. h. D. under the auspices Of the
Chamber of Comerce proved to be {
very enjoyable affair The special
lists in charge were a right jolly
bunch. They carried very fine as
sortment of jokes, some Of which
they thought good enough to re-
peat. / think they had along con-
siderable of information, too, but
they didn't unpack it all, being a
little late getting started and having
so much other stuff to handle, in the
way of entertainment.
Prem Moore led off with Poultry
as an enterprise on the farm" He
introduced figures from the books Of
Ed Ford of Weiser to show that there
is a profit in eggs at twenty cents
dozen. He also showed leaf from
the ledger of one Mcpherson OF
northern Idaho which made the
poultry business look mighty good,
and / wondered if 1 could do it if
| tried. One thing that impressed
me was the price of labor in noEthern
Idaho, 80 cents an hour seemed
small for the manager of so success
full a business.
The next subject was, "The pro-
duction of celery, lettuce and cauli- |
flower for shipment in mixed cars
The real puzzle seemed to be, to plant
and grow tho three products so they
would all be ready to pack and ship
in the same car. 1t is some puzzle,
and | wouldn't bet / could do it after
he explained it,
f. r. Campack then went to bat /
on the subject of Breeding and Sc
lection in Dairying." Cammack
proved a good story teller and he
made a few pertinent remarks about
feeding the dairy COW, but he clean
forgot the main subject However,
w. P. Joiner, practical farmer and
dairyman of New Plymouth, filled in
the gap with a lot of good sound ad-
vice on the Importance of selecting
and breeding.
Then came Don Whelan, Entomol-
ogist, on the Insect pests of the
year. He said they were {
toe numerous to mention but /
he would start with some !
of the orchard pests, passed up :
the San Jose scale as too common q
place. the codling moth was too :
so he advised us to keep .
on spraying and wait tills they find ,
out more about his moth-ship. He !
assured us that they have a five
year campaign planned and an OBJ
servation station located in the
middle of the most pestiferous re- {
gion ct is in the Boise Valley r
known in North Amedica. The plan T
is to devote three years to close .
up study of this elusive insect and n
by feigning friendship they hope to I
spy on his innermost secrets and
eventually TO compass his overthrow. +
May success crown their efforts. He q
then impaired to US the comforting 7
Information that a worse pest is L
Just now swooping down on us, via. 2
he leaf roller This newcomer +
rolls himself up in a leaf and then a
puts his thumb on his nose and wig +
10 spray him out. Well Don said Y
good many things that were interest (
ng if not helpful.
Then e. r. Bennett came back to I
ell How l manage my Farm Crop '
ring system on Irrigated Land in G
southern Idaho" 1t was a mighty q
Dig SUBJECT Dut ne ndnQleQ IL ike s
school boy handles bumbee bee, by d
letting it alone He did say, how t
ever, that the thirty cent, dollar and {
high freight rates had made farming {
rather difficult, but he opined that c
patience and perseverance and the L
addition of few thousand extra
hours hard labor to the years al /
otment, would eventually bring a
about a condition of contentment. h
This, Mr.. Editor completes a fairly /
accurate review of the days exer- q
cises. l have but one apology and \
that is for the length of the article.
But l wanted to make it full SO those I
who were unable to attend the meet I
ing may have the benefit of the in
There were some general {
features of the meeting, (maybe l q
ought to call it a SCHOOL, but it /
seemd to come a little short of the
dignity of a SCHOOL,, which l would l
like to discuss and perhaps l may at S
some future period. 1 just want to /
say, in passing, at this time, that, !
being taxed as hetvy as we are to !
raise money for educational pur-
poses, it is too bad to waste it. !
Very respectfully submitted,
D. w. AINEY.