Show ATTENTION farmers IV we aro are in receipt of a letter from mr ift gray silver washington representative enta tive of 0 the american farm bureau federation which we quote we have been working out with the war department a plan which would the american farm bureau federation to take over tremendous quantities of surplus property suitable for use on the farm for instance the war department has several hundred ed thousand sots sets of 0 high grade harness mccellan saddles many thousands of wagons auto truck trailers blacksmith torges forges tool cli chests ests tarpaulins etc in addition to shoes and many other articles of 0 clothing through a plan which we now have up with the director ot of sales large quantities of this material would be turned over to the american farm bureau federation at most attractive prices and every facility offered by the war department in assisting in getting this material to the consumer before going further with this proposition we want to get your idea as to the feasibility of handling throng through 1 your state organization a part of all ol of those articles suitable for use on the farms 0 of your state the idea we hadin mind was simply to make arrangements range ments to send to the states that might be interested samples 0 of all materials offered together with a specially prepared catalogue picturing and describing these articles various plans of handling this matter locally would of 0 course be worked outi by the different states after the local orders had been collected into a state order and these in turn concentrated into one large national order we would of course be in fir first st class position to get the vary very best of terms from the war department in tact fact the department has indicated that it 1 we could handle the goods on this basis they would go to extraordinary lengths to work with us we have advised mr silver that we have excellent facilities tor for taking advantage of this offer we will keep you advised as the plan developed dev elopes yours respectfully J EDWARD TAYLOR commercial agent |