The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-11-28
Board of Five Appointed
To Incorporate; and
Outline Procedure on
New Basis.

New Basis.
Pocatello-From action taken sat
urday afternoon at the closing session
OF the Idaho State Farm bureau fed
Grafton, 4 greatly broadcned field will
be opened for the organization in this
state. making It. as its hackers have
hoped. a bureau comparable 10 the
best Beginning at once. the mach
inery OF the present farm bureau will
be put to work under a plan that
will corelate the interests OF all
branches OF agriculture. rather than
keeping the bureau strictly farmers
group. The Idaho organization will
be shaped along the lines evolved IN
Michigan and Utah. in which the CO.
operative marketing societies have
been associated with the bureau
Though the Idaho plan will be bash
cally the same as the ones in opera
,ion elsewhere. special attention will
be given to notifications 10 tit the
peculiar needs OF this state.
The first step In the reorganization
plan was the selection of reorgani-
cation board OF FIVE members This,
board will handle all incorporate mat
tiers. and will lay the plans for a
statewide membership drive to build
the rank and file Of the federation to
point where It represents the farm
ing industry in its entirety. Henry
\. Biorkman OF Central. who has been
president of the bureau for several
terms, was chosen as chairman OF the
reorganization committee. Other mem
bers were George l.. Morrison OF
Franklin. w. T. Mccall of Caldwell.
Peter Kicks of Rigby, and J. II. Mer-
riil of Blackfoot
Program Outlined
AT preliminary meeting held last
evening to outline a program that
would bring about the reorganization
in the shortest possible time, the COM
nittee voted to retain the services OF
Paul V. Nash as secretary. Mr.. Nash
has served with President Bjorkman.
and the. two have been the chief fig
ures in Idaho in recent years.
Though the attendance was not
large at all sessions. the convention
considered many problems and the
conference presented numerous con
struciive recommendation Among
the more timely problems was that OF
ireigh, rates and their relation to
grain growing in Idaho. The bureau
VIII, as result OF action taken yes
terday, file its protest against the cN-
isting rates on grain shipments from
Idaho. II was cited that at present
the Idaho wheat grower pays more to
get his grain to Portland than does
the Montana grower, although the
distances are precisely the same.
Also, that the mid-westcrn wheat
raiser can reach the California mar
kets on an even basis with the Idaho
grower.
Against Butter Substitutes
Another important step was the
resolution against butter substitutes
lhis action was in line with action
being taken by the dairy interests OF
the state. The bureaus resolution on
butter reads:
We are unalierably opposed to the
common practice OF modifying butter
by mixing it with cheap vegetable and
tropical oils. Already we have Sc
cured law to prohibit this prac
tice in milk Now we ask a law to
do for our butter producers what has
already been done to prevent modify
ing milk. The dairy farmer in Idaho
cannot compete with the half-clothed
savage in the tropics"
The first resolution presented was
In respect for the late secretary Of
agriculture, Henry c. Wallace. "His
services for the farmers ;. the nation
viii stand forefronted in pub.;c es~:-
nation for all time the r-solr.ic-
said.
Tariff Supported
Endorsement was given to the
Grain Marketing company. naf.onar
cooperative concern and the federal
tariff board was urged not to reduce
the existing rate OF tariff on sugar
The sugar tariff resolution said: 1--WE
teel definitely assured that the pres
ent rate has been of saving value TO
the sugar beet producers of our state
and elsewhere, as we'll as the cane pro-
ducers Of the South. Any decrease
IN this sugar rate would force our
American sugar producers into com
petition with foreign planters whose
costs of production are much less