| Show fi farm rm bureau re N news WS 0 uintah U ca OR hc county 0 t COUNTI BUREAU ROSTER IlOS 0 O A 1 JOHNSON E 0 D SMITH A 0 GOODRICH P F 0 LUND nEHO DAVID L D YOUNG 11 WALTER WOLLEY president eastern division vice president secretary treasurer western division vice president assistant secret ary treasurer commercial Com marcial agent vernal utah A AY year ear of U ff farm ar bureau B achievement ah c en t federal rait unlocks 1 another achievement wae was the securing of credit credits for ale til era r a specifically tho the federation inka inkot 4 credit for persuading tho fed I 1 oral resolve hoard board to direct banks to accept storage et oruo warehouse receipt receipts for wool or wheat as collateral on loane loans ao also following its presenta tion of facto th tile t lard in ill middle banks to fi finance narice the ti moving loving of the thoa krain crop I 1 more f un dunion tally the federa fodera i alon hata a study of tho whole I 1 I 1 matter of firm credits and hae has od ed tho the approval of the tile federal lie nerve ervo hoard board and of the secretary of I 1 the treasury Troa eury to tho the principle that the farmer ie to entitled to credit to finance his crop crops during the tile year of production and over a period of or ono one year of consumption of that crop so 0 o financed A bill has boon been pro j pared and approved that will bo be submitted to congress thie this winter bitted to concrete congress thie this winter classifying farm notee notes and requiring banks to accept farm paper us collateral after activities among othor other things claimed ae as accomplishments in a national way by the farm form bureau hae has boon the securing of an appropriation of half halt a million dollor to fight the corn boror borer and for a quarantine against i thie this peet post it prevented certain in teresta from securing title to valuable cotton landi lands in arizona last princ spring when congress Con grea was in session 1 it cut the proposed appropriation appropriations ria riat tion ions for county agent work to les less than an agent had thia this peov provision islon gone through tho the entire it county agent system in tho united state states would have been wrecked the farm bureau exerted the influence that not only put the original bark back in the bill bu but t in creased it by when congress wae was the railroad bill and union labor wae was clamoring tor for omission omi eelon of any reference to strikes or arbitration conference committees of tho the and senate degreed to submit a bill providing tiu no of of f labor iou and omitting omItt lUK very overy ro reference to the prevention of tho farm spoke aliu oril ord that it asserts put tho the orbit arbit provision bark back in lit the bill ae as finally passed ov ertho protesto of tho united labor unions still another nii othor illustration of how tho farni farm bureau has loii belen on tho job for the farn fat mure iorg of nil all sections of tile country ie Is nn incident in con colt with tho the agricultural ap 1111 onn ono lay juat just at tile lose of tho the josslon whon only div invin berm were on oil tho the floor of the senate and after all nil hearing of tho agricultural more over ond and tha D wert no time for discus elon slon nn an to tho the bill introduced brodu ed whereby tho the number of cot ton oil tirades grades permitted by law would te be reduced just one half now this amendment would mean nothing to a corn bolt belt farmer who might hoar hear of it nor would it ret got ft a potato grower of maine or an in oregon at all excited hut flut to the cotton farmer of tho the south it was of fundamental im in days of old this last minute plan might have worked but no more when the farm bureau discovered u what hat bad had happened it took prompt action gray silver wrote a it letter to tho the chairman of tho the agricultural committee of the senate senate tolling him what had lappen lapp en ed and how cotton farmer farmers saved this letter was mimeographed mineo graphed and andi it copy placed on the desk of every member of congress Con gres with tho the declaration that if that amendment wont went through without having been acted upon by the regular committees in idao course the nation would be told how it had been engineered the item was promptly stricken out ot the bill the farm bureau lad sai say ed the day for the cotton fa carmera far raters mera one day last spring when mr air silver came down to his office he be found a stack of telegrams on his desk from potato growers on oil long island saying they wore were unable to get seed iorns 11 4 0 addred al donnett V ui adams J hi lundborg bennett llon nutt utah alterray juhn john bardner A 11 L ft ducheane ithai if 11 E bonjack J 1 finney myton utah att C W bodily jolin U lacking ft Du chestle citati itati lapoint wu win sprouse eiferman mullins lapoint utah bridell 11 11 II lo odrich marlo jone jonew I 1 ridell 1 11 ml win in F blausen l ank aunee varnal uenh editing file T JOHNSON F 0 LI 11 E 1 I SMITH J if WITT WElt county agent 14 lUiS I 1 S 8 club luader all c for this MINI bo ile signed b tho the author und and should be forar forwarded ded to the th forni burdau office vornal vernal utah potatoes from front maine in previous years deed seed potato potatoes had been battled down from maino during the winter but thin this time the blizzards tho the car shortage anil anti tho the strikes had prevented I 1 spring was jl at hand the ground roady really but no seed the railroads could do nothing and ruin bared ed these men in tha facca they ap pealed to tho the AmOri american call farm bur eau federation for help the dureau bureau wired them to se bind end a man at once with the tile f full ull facts with this roan man it wont went to can call railway association offices in washington an organization that unofficially but nevertheless effee lively influences the movement of freight earn cars in the country and anti the came this body declared it could do nothing but the farm farin bureau advanced arguments that brought an order for the tile diver liver ioli of additional box care enro a lu lit to main alain above the normal car roo ement there thoro within fiat t 0 atour after tho order lia dono leono forth irth rare loaded with maino seed potatoes oro oi oil their xay to long island then wore were needed a second visit wa was s nind and 5 COO 00 ca cart rb wore secured for 1 eugair beet Gr TIM when wheat the sugar augar bot bait growers of ono of 0 the western asked for a sliding scale calo conr r ec r tor growing this year s crop a contract that inbur hom them a fair arli price a for choir product they werf orn greatly disturbed b on the report that the attorney gener ill 1 l a e office lind had declared uch such a con trun would he a violation of the rod red arut nl trust iowa laws it Is asserted abut thoy were hown shown lint purported to bo lie a froin from pronoun pronouncing Ing tho tile dilding scale agree greo 1114 to be b illegal A kembor of tile american farm bureau federations federation a executive committee in lit compau with local farm human came to wash ington liitt ton and the the matter was laid before tile the attorney general generals office thoy informed that the tile propos od contract appeared app onrod to bo be entirely legal that no telegram to bo tho contrary hod had boon ernt sent from front the do pirt mont of justice armol armo with a totter forth tins facts thy returned homo home in militant mood without further do de liy ny tho the sliding cale settle contracts with tile farmers wore were signed it ie is do blared thie this prompt work on oil tho part of tho the farm bureau officials fayod tho the sugar beet growers of tho the state 2 thin year also 1 that it probably explains the tho increase of thousand of acres of the crop as a national voice for agriculture abe aarin bureau hns broucht ought jr justice to tho the farmers in a way never known before it hae ban tho the bittles of tho the farmer farmers of tit wel west of LOUR iong island and geor gla 1 wherever thore there wae was need or it nun possible pos elble to ao do so I 1 that to take a partisan stand in politics would bo be the end n of ith its influence tho tile farm burean lod federation oration has remained aloof from huch such it went openly to both political parties and influenced thorn them to tann farm planks in their platforms it further asked for specific kinnke against tho the town rend ilond bill contending that it would build town to town roads reads rather than tile firm to market roads which the country really needs when congress gets do down don n to business this winter it will ill find a number of bills ready for its consideration tho the capper Vole Vola tead dill bill has hasl been heon amended so that as it no now arands it icib jh doubtful ul it farmers could own mid nil ope ritte a milk of otheir own or a fact have a ana real to operAtion the nolan tax bill 1111 will bo be brought up again to badali a tax of MO P r cent in addition to all oilier gjon the sh shoulders 0 u I 1 of the farmer on oft all land va values 1 u e abobo 1004 4 digests ct cf these and a kumher of oth othar bills have already t en prepared and a plan of campaign worked out the farm bureau Is rady r ady for congress several co commendable mm a montu montal of committee and project t loader aro tire the work done toward securing tiB competent veterinary eer bar by ernest eaton ond und C 11 howell im curing feed food corn and oil inke take i by W II 11 BIddow ay and tho ashley coop co op conducting poultry improvement pro work by F at jeneen jensen and airs J 11 II header pooling about pounds wool b 66 56 co ore by mr air BIddow ay tuberculosis eradication through cooperation 0 ot tho tile state board foul brood control by county beo bee inspector Inep octor jae jam marshall Mareb nil soc tirIng for the county ft a eoll soil survey by tho the county commissio 11 ore ers in operation cooperation co with the utah experiment station and tho the U S 8 bureau of solle soils and tho the afon of over prairie doga dogs at an appropriate having to farmers of over 1000 00 in crops saved 0 WHAT WE AVE NEED about the farmere farmers who complain about not having a suitable ul table market i for surplus hoy hay and grain tho tile following might serve as a dug aa BB as to how tho difficulty might inight bo be overcome 1 I an ant feeding tho the following ration to my herd of holstein cows 27 pounds good corn silage 10 to 16 pounds fino fine third cutting alfalfa at 26 25 per ton freo free access to good eor sor ghani hay 12 por ton during the day I 1 feed ono pound of the follow ing mixture for every 3 pounds of milk produced pounds ground corn at 1 26 25 per hundred pound pounds and pounds of 43 per cent seed meal at 2 80 per hundred if a man can mako make money at euch such food foed prices what should uintah colin ty farmers be able to do of course a good feed food ration meane means much but with that there must be good stock good shelter and proper management the bonnott bennett and moffat farm bur aua aus aro are leading tho way both are instituting a program for the 1921 seasons work ork which will emphasize ver strongly strong the use of high producing purebred pure bred brod sires building good seeds not necessarily expensive for protection from severe storms and cold weather and the construction of alloa whether thes be pit silos con creto silos or even trench antior 11 some kind of silo Is the slogan and solos of course mean a change in the cropping systems silage corn oi 01 the mammoth russian sunflowers |
