The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-09-25
SpILLMAN GIVES THE
FACTS TO FARMERS
Community Dimes Agriculture visitors
and Large Crowd Attentive to
Iddings-Spillman Talk.

with open arms, hearts and minds, an
il holding in pleasant memory til
visitation of these eminent and carr
est students of agriculture and it
problems.
Under the auspices of the Spokan
Chamber of Commerce and the agri
cultural Department Of the Idah
University, DR.. ]. W. Spillman of tn
bureau of economics of the Unite,
States Department of Agriculture AM
Dean e. J. Iddings Of the College O
Agriculture, University of Idaho, LEI
the following party on tour of ed
ucation along agricultural lines, which
covered some twenty northern Idaho
points.
J. w. Bradley and w. P. Romans
chairman and secretary of the agri-
cultural bureau Of the Spokane Cham
ber Of Commerce; G. E. Arney, I'm
migration Agent of the Northern Pa
cific Railway; Fred w. Clemens, as
sistant managing editor of the Idaho
Farmer; Prof. J. E. Nordby, animal
husbandry department, Prof. R. T.
Parshurst, poultry husbandry depart
ment, and Prof. F. W. Atkeson, dairy
department of the University of Ida
no, and George Romans of Spokane.
y When Prof's. Nordby Parkhurst
and Atkeson arrived in Nezperce they
were met by committee and taken
to the farm of Dick johnson, where
an assembly of farmers and business
men heard Prof. Nordby in very
practical and instructive talk on hog
raising, and where was found one of
the best conditioned herds of Poland
Chinas the experts had seen. Thence
the party went to the farm of Theo.
Primus, where he had for inspection
his fine herd of Short Horn cattle and
two pens of his barred rock chickens,
and where Prof's. Parkhurst and At
keson discussed these farm products
in a most instructive way.
When the party returned to the
Nezperce Hotel they found DR.. Spill
man and the other gentlemen of the
expedition, and at six O'Clock, with
the addition of some 25 members OF
the Commercial Club, the party ad
iourned to the dining room to Partake
of Commercial Club dinner, one OF
the best spreads Landlord Farraf has
to his credit. Chairman Leo Robert
son presided at this feast, and at the
close of the meal several of the visf-
tors and local citizens responded tel
invitations for short talks.
After the dinner, the Legion Band
yave a street concert. Following this
he speakers of the evening repaired
o the Temple Theatre, which they
'ound well filled. With few well
.hosen remarks, Rev. J. F. Hoffman
introduced Dean Iddings, who was
greeted with round Of applause. He
briefly the outstanding farm
of this territory, and with
earnestness, when Dean
ddings speaks to Nezperce audi
nee, the now packed house OF over
hree hundred people took in his
words. He concluded with an appre
iation of his reception and the re
eption the community had given the
'arty, and then presented DR.. Spill
nan, who, though bothered with bad
hroat, held his audience at close at.
ention for an hour, and left it want
ng more.
If the farmers of the Nezperce
ountry, the Inland Empire or the
Jnited States as whole want to
void selling their wheat at from go
D 80 cents bushel for the next 70
nd possibly so years, they must dr-
ersify their farming, using livestock
nd feed crops for them as the basis
Or such diversification, declared VI.
7. j. Spillman, consulting specialist
f the bureau of economics, United
tates Department of Agriculture, IN
is address at Nezperce Tuesday
vening. While he never uttered It IN
} many words, Idaho's well known
ogan, "The COW, the pig and the 8
sn,'' came in for hearty endorse
ent by this noted agricultural scienT
st.
DIR. Spillman declared that except
n possible occasion all year IN
hich the price of wheat might go as
gh as .$1.25 bushel because OF tenn
'rary conditions, he expected wheat
run around so or 80 cents a bushei
r at least the next 25 years, and ne
ted figures to show why he made
Q prediction.
There is reasonably satisfactory ?
ice this year, and as a result, the
rmers, not only of this country but .
other wheat growing countries, are 9
ing just what farmers always 90 IN
ars when the price is good-increas