Payette County ID Archives News.....Farmers' Institute in Session March 3, 1905
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New Plymouth Outlook March 3, 1905
New Plymouth Outlook
New Plymouth, Idaho
Friday, March 3, 1905
 
FARMERS' INSTITUTE IN SESSION
 
We go to press too early to give a report of the Farmers' Institute, but are 
able even at this time to pronounce it an unqualified success.
 
The session yesterday afternoon opened with a selection by the orchestra 
followed by a few remarks by Chairman Meyer.  He said that while he had quit 
active farming yet never was he any more interested in farming than now.  E. 
E. Cox made the address of welcome.  He said the people here had a hungering 
and thirsting after knowledge and especially along the line of farming, and 
were exceedingly glad to listen to some expert advice by the distinguished 
visitors present.  Mr. A. E. Gipson, of Caldwell, in response complimented our 
people very highly on the interest they always manifest in institute work and 
nowhere in his travels have the university professors been received with 
larger audiences or given heartier support.  Harry Lewis gave a good talk on 
poultry.  He insisted that the hen was the money producer of the farm.  A hen 
of the right stripe, and kept right, he says, will yield its owner 200 per 
cent profit.  The sugar beet industry had two able champions -- Mr. Faurot, of 
Caldwell, and Mark Austin, of Sugar City, Idaho.  They argued that the sugar 
beet was especially adapted to the arid lands of the west, that it was 
marketed at a fixed price, and that the enormous demands for the output of the 
factory would make the crop a definite and constant source of income for the 
farmer.  Unlike fruit you can market the crop the first year it is planted.  A 
great deal of enthusiasm was shown in the beet question.  C. S. French gave a 
history of the Payette valley, telling what had been done the past ten years, 
and in glowing terms forecasting the future.
 
A large crowd attended the evening session.  Report next week.
 
PROGRAM
THURSDAY 1:30 P.M.
Music
Invocation - Rev. Clyde W. Greenlee
Address of Welcome - E. E. Cox
Response - A. E. Gipson, Caldwell
Music
Address - Prof. Croathwait
General Resources of the Payette Valley - Hon. C. S. French
Poultry - H. A. Lewis
 
THURSDAY 7:30 P.M.
Music
General Farming - A. J. Ettinger
Song - Miss Hattie Cox
Recitation - Lillie Albert
Sugar Beets - Hank Williams
Expert Talk on Sugar Beets - Prof. C.S. Faurot, of Caldwell
Followed by general discussion
Piano Duet - Pearl Wachter & Ella Meyer
 
FRIDAY 10 A.M.
Music
Dairying - J. K. Sheldon
Pure Food - A. H. McPherson
Followed by discussion
Music
 
FRIDAY 2 P.M.
Tree Culture and the Orchard - Prof. Judson
Marketing of Fruits - F. S. Roberts
Followed by general discussion
Music
Education - Prof. E. W. Tracy
Business Meeting

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