The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-30
DAIRY SHOW

for Idaho by getting a tiny bronze
COW bell, putting it on a couple oil
yards of ribbon and hanging it from
the neck of one of the delegates, the
lady we told you about who always
answered one certain inquiry by
saying, 81 am from Blackfoot, Ida
!. no." Now that it was hung on her
by so eminent person, she wore it
to the end of the show, and as she
walked or talked or moved slightly,
it tinkled and reminded people of
the leading, or bell COW and the
dairy idea.
Miss Idaho of the dairy idea re-
ceived some invitations to go out to
see different things of interest, but
most of them, would interfere with
the work at and around the booth
One of them was an invitation to in
spect the work at the vocational
school just out of Milwaukee where
ten thousand young folks were in
training. She wanted to go, and
made date to start from the show
at five o'clock when there was like
ly to be thinning out of visitors
But when the time approached there
was the greatest jam of the week,
and every Idahoan was telling the
good story and proving it by the
products at the booth, so she got the
superintendent on the phone and
asked to be excused so she could
serve Idaho while the serving was
good. Perhaps she could see the
school and it's work some other time
or next year.
When one fair closes they begin
making contracts for the year fol- |
10 inc do n
cific were not in a position to say
what they would or could do next |
year. People who put up money
for this years trip will probably !
want to watch while for results to
see if it is actually paying in prac-
teal ways. When Miss Peck. got
home she found some letters on her
desk from people she had talked to
at Milwaukee, and they asked for
more information regarding things
they were interested in. Perhaps
we can give some definite reports of
these things later, to see if letters
and inquiries turn into real business
of some kind in Idaho.
Ralph Edmunds of Idaho Falls.
the man who gave the lectures and
picture shows at the dairy show.
and won the admiration of the whole
delegation, was interviewed by the
Daily Post when he got back to his
home town, and here are some of !
his observations:
Idaho boosters sold Idaho to Wis !
,onsin, according to Ralph Edmunds, /
)ne of the three Idaho Falls men
Who made the trip to the National
Dairy show, and who returned !
shead Of the rest of the delegation.
mot in the fifteen years that ! !;
ived in Idaho did / learn as much of ;;
IDAHO products as I did in the brief !
ime during which products were
Exhibited to the thousands attending
he national dairy event.
Nor did I know what it is that \
makes Idaho the greatest natural !
larry section in America. y
Discussion with Wisconsin peo- 9
lie revealed the fact that the aver
ge Wisconsin man at the show G
.nows more about the natural con- 9
itions which exist here for dairying =,
han does the average citizen here" r
Long ago, Wisconsin, according ~
0 Edmunds, sent soil experts into q,
his section to analyze the soil here
4 order that they might by treat p
lent reproduce the same natural n
onditions as exist in Wisconsin. M
"Those people told me that the
oil of the upper Snake river valley or
as a mineral content that builds a,
one and fibre. They told me that II
could take a COW from California M
r Wisconsin, bring her to Idaho, a,
eep her here, and within a year n,
reduce a calf that would weigh, b1
hen it had matured, 800 pounds w
lore than her mother. h.
GAS against conditions such as in In
,rtile and easily depleted soil, stag ~,
ant water, severe climate and flies, hi
contrasted Idaho conditions and h;
'und that Idaho has fertile soil with W.
mineral content which will pro- w-
Ice the most luxuriant of forage n,
ops, that we have an abundance of be
ear, cool water, that the climate Is ~
liversally milder, and that there is n,
/ almost total absence of flies.
"In striving to equal Idaho condi- D,
ons the great dairy state which y,
'oduces 282,000,000 of the total
100000 pounds of cheese pro- ca
iced in the United States annually, at
isconsin is forced to go to the ex-
nse of Undertaking. and fertilizing
e soil to produce alfalfa and other
rage crops, and even then 1t is not
unusual thing for 70 per cent of -
g crop to winter-kill sp
Discussing the subject with la