The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-06-08
URGE COOPERATION.
AT FARM MEETING
AGRICULTURAL FUTURE POINTED
OUT BY DEAN E. J. IDDINGS
AT PICNIC


Moscow Union Warehouse company
at the annual picnic of the Latah
county farm bureau held Thursday
at Eggan's hall, at which three hun
dred Latah county farmers and their
families attended, bringing basket
dinners which were served on three
long tables in the hall, the inside
picnic being necessary due to the
severe rain which fell during the
day.
I'VE often hear that the business
interests are organized to work
against the farmer" Mr.. Sievers said
"This is not true, and have no SYM
pathy with the statement Business
interests are organized, not against
the farmers, but to work for their
own best interest. This is a privi-
lege that is granted to any group
The farmers have the same right but
have only recently begun to make use
of that privilege. Practically all pro-
gress in practical cooperation among
farmers has been made during the
past fifteen years. Now we have the
Equity, the Grange, and the various
wheat growers associations, the Farm
Bureau, and others too numerous to
mention, working to better the farm
6T s lluduCldl COuQlL1On.
Must Take Advantages
1t is time for all farmers to take
advantage of their opportunity to
work together and to cooperate.
have felt, and still feel that the
Farm Bureau offers what is propably
the best organization that we can
use in getting together. Let us all
get together and do our parts in MAX
ing cooperation practical and an
actual reality.
For number of years, I have
heard little other than complaint
from the farmers" the speaker said
at another point. This has been
due to poor crops and to the fact that
prices of farm products have not been
in proportion to other products. To-
day we have the best prospects that
we have had in the PalOuse country
In number of years, and we are
hearing less complaint--in regard to
poor prices for farm products
Points Out Possibilities
E. ]. Iddings, dean of the college
of agriculture Of the University of
Idaho, spoke concerning the possibili-
ties of modern farming, and of the
ways in which the farmer Of today
can serve his community in a CON
structive way, protecting the future
of the community, and developing
new fertile fields.
1--WE have come to new day, a
new period in the history of the west, |
when the great problem facing us
is the preservation, conservation and
wisest possible utilization of the
natural resources in the state and
western regions that have already /
fol -,
s'This calls for new type of pioneer,
of metals and of wiser
of minerals, coal and oil
resources, and those who will build
great irrigation works, reveal new
knowledge of SOIL discover new
plants, and breed finer types of ami
mails, solve the problem of protecting
the former from insects, pests, and
plant diseases. thereby contributing
to the prosperity of agriculture, and
finally, those who will work for hui
solving the great problem of
human disease and finding ways Of
alleviating the suffering of man
kind"
No Longer Suffice
at is a day, speaking particularly |;
With reference to the farm, when the
I'D methods will no longer suffice i
When the conservation of soil, the in
reduction of new plants, and diversi-
ication of methods and careful study {
# the marketing problems and the ,
bringing of the greatest possible
mount of intelligence to bear upon ;
he problems of the farmer are funda- {
mental for success. :
Events of the past few years indi- !
ate that Latah county is responding
o this new call, and the agriculture I
Il the region is being slowly moulded
o more closely conform to the prac-
fees that scientific knowledge indi-
ates to be most desirable. Splendid
erds OF pure bred beef cattle, new
erds of Holstein and other dairy cat 4
+ legumes for hay and pasture, all
Oint to progress in agriculture.
Thinks Fears GroundIess
"There has been fear expressed l
hat the alfalfa weevil one of the =
roblems upon which the Idaho agri- Q
u1tural experiment station is ex-ff
ending a great deal of time, has al $
eady invaded this county, and that "
may interfere with success in the
rowing of alfalfa. can assure you .
hat as far as the entomoligists of l,
ne station are aware there is no al u
alta weevil north Of the Salmon q
iver AS far as we know it exists a
My in the irrigated sections of II
tab, Eastern Oregon, and Southern Q
iaho =,
In closing, Dean Iddings assured il
le assembled farmers of the CO. Il
peration Of the local college of agri- "
ulture and experiment station. He
poke complimentary Of the progress Il
lade in molding> the agriculture of a
Ii sregion to conform with the needs
nd ideals of the new period c.
e
In the list of graduates IN the 1923 N
ass from Willamette university ap- To-
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