The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-03-29
KJOsNESs ON FARM PROBLEMS
State Head of County Agents Impressed Meeting the
Fraternal Hall Last Saturday. Pointed Out
Best Paying Crops, and Why.
BY John Booth.


, as he pays in Wisconsin, where he be
} gan his business. AT present the pc
capita consumption of cheese in th
! United States is less than half poun,
tper year. In Italy it is 1888 pounds
In France, l60' pounds and in man,
other countries it is more than hun
ldred pounds SO by even ten o.
] twenty pound per capita consumption
in this country il is easy TO see thai
dairy production would be safe bet
land as was previously stated, the con
sumption is rapidly increasing.
There is little need to go into the
wheat situation. 1t is at present on
the rocks because of narrow market.
BY narrow market / do not mean that
there is no demand The export of
wheat from the u. s. in 1921 was the
greatest in the history of the nation
and they are calling for more. But
| if have the only bushel of wheat in
the world to sell, and you have the
only four bits in the world to buy
| it with, then naturally the price of
wheat will be four bits a bushel. I'm
| TIL that condition is remedied we
wheat farmers win be in bad circum-
stances. But there is loophole. That
is hogs, sheep, poultry and dairy.
The greatest mistake that we could
make at this time would be to all give
up wheat farming and jump into the
dairy business, or the poultry bust
mess, or the hog business. But, accord
ing TO Mr.. Kjosness, if we establish as
many of these animals on our farms
as we can make to fit into our present
program of grain farming, it win
go long way toward reliveing our
financial distress, as well as to put
our soil back in the shape where forty
bushels of wheat to the acre viii
again be the rule instead of the ex,
ception as is the case at present.
: Leaving this phase of farming, Mr..
K5psness discussed the County Agent
situation and it was here that he told
facts that have not been common
knowledge, and facts that went Il
great way toward clearing up the mis-
understanding in the, minds Of most
of us in regard to the relations exist
ing between the County Agents and
the Farm Bureau. Farm Bureaus were
for the first time in New
York state, and almost at the same
time in Idaho. At that time, the
Farm Bureau was merely a committee |
of farmers in a county, working with
the county agent to increase the ef-
of his work and forward the
success of their farming operations. |
They worked in conjunction with the
County Grange, OF the Farmers Equity /
or the Farmers Uniont or whatever
type of farmers cooperative organi- /
zation existed in the community and
in order to further identify the Farm /
Bureau with these existing organiza-
lions, the president of one was as =
rule also the president of the other.
There was no competition whatever
between them.
Then at meeting in Moscow of the
County Agents of the state, the plan
was launched to form a state Farm
Bureau, which would increase the er
'ectiveness of the work and project
t over parts of the state not yet re-
,eiving its benefits. That plan was
excellent, but there was a flaw in its
Several people who were
rying to build foundation for their
political futures saw in this new or
.anization vehicle in which to ride
'ver the rough roads in comfort, and
,ecame affiliated with the new move
nent, with the result that as soon as
hey were in power they adopted q
program and political
,rogram. This commercial program
an in direct competition with the CO.
perative stores established by the
FRANCES, or Equities, or Farmers I'm
ons, and it is readily understood that
roubles developed immediately To
Increase the difficulty, the Farm Bur
au soon established national organi-
alton and began to rough handle the I
armers organizations that had given |
t birth. And it began to say to the {
;ounty Agent, "You do this" or ;
on It do that which he Immediately I
id, or didn It, OF was it not his own {
rganization that was issuing the or {
ersf II
However, about month before the {
ast County Agent in the county left.
he director of the Smith-Lever fund,
rhich furnishes half of the salaries of ]
he County Agents, and which was es- {
to carry on the county Agent Q
rork, refused to have its agents fur {
her connected with the Farm Bureau, T
18th the result that now there is
ositively no connection between the i