The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-05-29
THE SEDIMENTS
CONVENTION

quleL Way us members are planning
and pointing out paths to success il
important branches of our agricul
tural life.
We refer to the convention Of
county agents and seedmen, seec
dealers and producers of seed. Some
fifteen different speakers took the
lead in presenting as many different
phases of seed industry, with forty
or fifty experienced men to engage
at will in discussions. The speakers
came from a wide range of territory
and of industries, scattered from
Spokane to Salt Lake and represent
ing practical work in farming, financ-
ing, marketing and legislation.
The seeds talked of mostly were
alfalfa and the clovers, and the mar
keting that was talked of covered
both competitive and cooperative,
with the natural inclination toward
cooperative marketing as fast as the
producers can be educated to quit
standing in their own light at the
moment of greatest need for loyalty
to their own organizations.
1t requires a broad understanding
of many things in agriculture to en-
able a person to get the vision of
the future of agriculture as it was
ton. In all that was presented for
consideration, several things seem
certain:
The farmer who bought lands at
the peak prices during the war
boom can pay out even at the high
prices if he will but shift his meth
DDS to those of what may be called |
the new agriculture"
The farmer who makes money |
from now on will generally be the |
farmer who takes drastic measures
to clean his farm of weeds and mon
grel varities of plants=the farmer
who plants pure seed and manages
his field SO that the old kinds do not
get into the sack or the wagon at
harvest time.
The farmer of the future will work
as carefully to get rid of what he has
TIN seeds and plants) as he will to
get the new and better varieties and
breeds In Kidding his farm of the
old kinds he will find that he is TAX
Ing measures that greatly enrich and
improve the soil. The methods that
XIII the weeds and mongrel growth
OF crops and thus clean up the fields
and clear the way for the pure kinds
would greatly increase the yield of
any kind of crops.
The successful farmer of the fu-
ture VIII study wider scope of crops
ana ind greater profits in things he
mas not raised at all or has not rails
ed IN commercial quantity. He will
get low freight rates in all direc- =
lions by raising or producing some ri
thing that does not have to be ship g
ped or that is shipped in greatly a
condensed form. q,
The farming of the future will be r.
made infinitely safer by reason of in
vast storage of water for irrigation. ~
me holding OF the surplus water from he
year to year to give plenty in such or
7ears as 1924 is expected to be. He
VIII need less water for irrigation by en-
rest storage of water for irrigation, ba
eason of the different kind of crops in
lie raised by reason of different rota- -,
ION to get more vegetable matter in W.
the soil making it more mellow. h a
nd by fall watering and fall blowing. cd
In combating the weeds he will ~,
1ake use of more animals on the on
arm to eat the weeds, and he will 90,
rganZe large areas into weed-fight- no,
rs 10 make the determination of 20
eed pests possible without its being for
heavy burden -,
To show the penalty of neglecting tbe
lie weeds and the advantages that Tin
ay be gained by applying the same cro
tito Of multiplication to pure seeds
valuable plants, let us repeat what Ia
lie speaker said of nettles in Cassia 20 =
49, oo VI sneep was sneareo ligs
eo vi spol roo and
vered with growth of nettles
me thoughtful farmer took his
ovel and cut off all the plants
forgot that there would be other
eds that would not sprout till the
KIT year, and he did not give them
y attention and they ripened and
NV all about. Now they have more
an 200 acres abandoned to the
tiles and great belts visible across
her lands, looking like chains of
enies on the landscape, taking the
lntry. Many kinds of noxious n
eds have got equally notable starts rise
a casual study OF the situation afte
sgest at first that killing them out "
uld be an impossibility, but there is h
} always to do it, and it is up to shor
people concerned to find the way. tical
Governor Moore told of a man at the
gar City who bought farm on the NJ
tallment plan at 1925 an acre and grou
paying out on it, even in these or /
"a Times me old saying that float
sing sugar beets on land runs it at O
vn to poverty was also proven D,
sc, for in this instance the farm lowe
been planted to sugar beets para
twenty consecutive years, and on for {
goth year, 1928, the yield of Men
is was 26 tons per acre, and it not and
PAID the interest and the 1928 left
aliment but also covered the 1924 shou
,allment. Inc FARMER said he salut
aware tnat ne mad paid too high In
rice Tor the land but that he was alwa
IL 10 pay out Notwithstanding and
boom price. of fl;
'overnor Moore said there are pole)
teen companies operating In the the
He river valley above Blackfoot, to- tn
ing seed peas, with a total of the
thousand acres, producing, US noon
Y about four .milliOn dOllara lof fh