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Show Membership Drive Bringing Results "Some 1017 members of the Chicago Chi-cago Board of Trade during last season sea-son made on an average of $30,000 each, or a total of $4S.510,000. The speculation was in wheat, belonging to the farmers of the United States. The Wheat was turned 5 7 times and not until the last sale was the wheat moved from elevators." "The middle of this month President Presi-dent Warren G. Harding summoned President Bergesen of the Utah State Farm Bureau, together with presidents presi-dents of similar organizations throughout the United States to the nation's capitol for conference." "Two weeks ago wool was selling at 19 cents per pound. Today 32 cents is being offered and very little lit-tle is being sold at that price." The above are only a few of the important questions that are being used' in the Great Gunnison Valley, as well as in every other agricultural agricultur-al section of the United States, on the importamce of organizing the farmers into one great "school" for the protection of their interests. Sam Lofgreen, one of the deputy organizers for the State Farm Bureau, Bur-eau, and whose home is in Weber county, spent the major portion of this w-eek in the valley, assisting local lo-cal men in a "membership drive." Mr. . Lofgreen, aided by his forceful and impressive arguments, favoring closer alliance of the farmers, met with splendid success and before his departure reported better than 9 5 per cent of the local farmers as having hav-ing been lined up for the coming year. "The membership fee," said Mr. Lofgreen, "is higher this year than it ever has been. But at that the members, as a rule, come in without a murmur, realizing the good that will result in the organization. But the fee is small as compared with other orders, the bootblacks union, excepted, perhaps. Of the $10 to be paid fifty cents goes to the national I organization, $3 goes into the State Farm Bureau treasury and $6.50 is retained for the local and county organization. When the true situation situa-tion is studied and when the facts are known that it takes money to do big things, the fee asked thi's year is comparatively small." At the completion of the membership member-ship drive, which will be continued until every "wide-awake-farmer" in the valley is enrolled as a member, then a permanent organization will lie effected by the election of officers offi-cers in the regular way and at a meeting of all the members of the Gunnison Farm Bureau. Due notice no-tice will be given of the meeting and at that time it will be imperative that all those members having their interests, as well as the interests of the valley at heart, will be urged to be present. GET BACK OF THE FARM BUREAU! |