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Show Id HUNDRED JOIN IDM6M Special to The Tribune. BOIPK, Idaho, March 1 4. Delegates from the various committees at work in Lincoln county for the organization of a farm bureau and the employment of a county agent met with the county commissioners com-missioners Monday, March at Shoshone. Sho-shone. These committeemen brought the report 'that already more than 200 members mem-bers had joined the county farm bureau and that at least 1JK more would be secured se-cured before the permanent organization would be perfected on March 2'.). This report, which shows how splendidly splendid-ly the farmers are supporting the movement move-ment for a county agent, satisfied the county commissioners that the work would fill a big need in Lincoln county, and they were unanimous in passing an appropriation appro-priation t ha i is sufficient to carry on county agent work in t lie county in cooperation co-operation with tiie University of Idaho and the Untied States department of agriculture. agri-culture. Present plans are to employ a county agent about April 1, and then to start the farm bureau on a county-wide programme nf work. Minidoka and Cooding counties, which adjoin Lincoln county, also have organization organiza-tion committees at work anrl the splendid support given by the commissioners to the farm bureau work in Lincoln county wili.be a great incentive for the people of the other two counties to complete their organizations. Word also comes that II. Peier of Boise becins work March Ui as county agricultural agricul-tural agent of Kootenai county, with headquarters head-quarters at I'oeur d'Alene. Bonner county, also in the panhandle of Idaho, will soon be organized, if the plans of leading farmers farm-ers of this section are carried out. I . |