The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
DAIRY EXPOSITION
REAL OPPORTUNITY
TO ADVANCE IDAHO
Delegates Get In Touch
With People Seeking
New Fields

Miss Grace Peck arrived home
from, the National dairy show on
Monday evening, having been gone a
little more than two weeks. After
the work was done at Milwaukee
she rested day at Chicago with a
friend, and then visited a day and a
half with her grandmother at Grand
Island, Nebraska, and came home
when she left. She said the dele
gates kept running behind on their
sleep for more than a week due to
the excitement and disposition to
take in all that was passing. They
would be busy at the show until
some time in the evening, nine or
ten O'Clock, and then on arriving at
their hotel they would stop In the
lobby to compare notes over the
events of the day. That would open
up such an interesting session they
they might linger a long time with
out realizing how late it was, or they
might go to show or to see some
thing that Idaho towns do not have,
and get in so late they could only
grab short section of sleep and get
out and go again. Each day
brought so much work and new ex-
periences they would become keyed
up and by night they would forget
their resolution to go to bed early
and catch up some sleep.
On the way from Idaho to Mil
waukee the delegates put In their
time getting acquainted and learn
ing from each other of the resources
of the respective communities that
make up southern Idaho. In the
words of the salesman, they were
Selling Idaho" to each other, with
the result that they were all loaded
and ready to sell Idaho to the world
when they got into the crowd. There
had been some anxiety lest each
delegate would incline to talk only
of his own locality, but it worked
learned of so many remarkable
things about other localities he was
impressed with it and wanted to tell
1t, so they were all talking Idaho.
When asked about any particular
industry or locality, that conferred
the talk on the individual commun-
ity. If the visitor asked about
Grimm alfalfa, any delegate would
refer to Bingham county and Black
foot. If 1t was beans, the Twin
Falls country was best; IL melons,
the southwest was the place, and in
any event, the booth contained the
product. Caldwell shipped Ave
watermelons and they were
all cracked or bursted in transit but
one, so it was on exhibit proving
that Idaho is not all snowbanks and
deserts. When the Iowa and Wis
,onsin folks saw corn in any booth,
somebody was ready to ask II they
had seen the Idaho corn. Iowa and
Wisconsin had cold wet season
Ind their corn exhibit was punk.
IDAHO had every state beaten for
,orn, and beaten so badly it was
sensational. That brought up the
question whether 1t was Of the 1924
,rop. Wasn't it cold and bad sea-
ION in Idaho too this year? No?
What was that about having an in
dependent weather condition west Of
he Rockies? What was that about
he Japan current and the chinook
Winds? Was our irrigation like
hat of California, in pipes mostly
md costing mint of money? No?
We're the canals used for commerce?
Why such large canals? Oh, the
meadows large. Was this a fair
lot the meadows winter kill? What
8 1t about the Grimm alfalfa root
ystem that makes 1t different and
he hay finer? We're these sample
lants really true types of Grimm
nd common alfalfa? They had
card of the Idaho Grimm Growers
ssociation selling guaranteed
eed under seal; were they really all
light and operating permanently?
ould a person get a small amount
1t and depend on its being pure?
h, anything from carload down II
ley order early? What town are
Oh from? have passed through
pokane; is 1t near there? l re-
lember passing through Minidoka.
your country like that?
The Idaho booth was open like
lmpus so people could walk around
lside or out and handle some of the
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