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Show Farmers Should Organize As winter approaches the farmers la this community will have u lot of spare time which they could uso to an advantage by holding meetings for discussion on farm subjects. This county has nn expert and farm dem-onstiator, dem-onstiator, Dr. A. n. IJallantync, whose special business it Is to help tho farmers. farm-ers. This can best bo done in the winter months by holding farm Institutes, In-stitutes, etc., and have Mr. Dnllnn-lyue Dnllnn-lyue deliver tnlks and suggestions, lie Is anxious to help and will come if the farmers want him. The department ls continually receiving re-ceiving Inquires from nil sections asking how farmers ought to organize. organ-ize. The answer to such a general iUestlon must necessarily bo that' it depends partly upon tho capacity which farmers huvo to establish nnd mniiage the work of a sultablo organization. or-ganization. There should bo a strong local feeling of the need of somo improvement im-provement and that certain definite alms or purposes can bo mora fully realized with tho aid of organized Interest In-terest nnd nctlvltj than through Individual Indi-vidual effort alone. It ls folly to expect ex-pect thnt mcro organization, as such, will achieve a given object, unless the farmers organize In tho right way and ccjiilp their organization so that It will carry on its work efficiently, liming decided that an associated effort ef-fort Is warranted by tho needs of the community, a study should bo made of thu kind of organization thnt would be most helpful nnd tho ways nnd menus of ninklng Its work effective. While this calls for Intelligent, on. thuslnstlc, and sclf-sacriftclng leadership, leader-ship, It is best that this bo furnished locally. Organizations may need outside out-side advice, but they should not be promoted by outsiders. Tho farm, er's advance must como as a result of his own efforts; his progress must develop from within rnther than from without. The organization that Is given him Is of far less voluo to him than the ono which ho himself creates. In tho matter of securing advice It Is gonornlly wIbo to mako nppllcntlon to tho agricultural collego or tho proper Government olllclul. In anklntf-'for' this adiico a full statement of the local lo-cal situation should be given the territory ter-ritory to bo Included, number of farmers Interested, class and amount of work to bo undertaken, previous co-operative experience, and any other local features that will give n definite Idea of tho problems that must lis met in outlining n plan of organization for tho betterment of tho community. o |
