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Show story and the result of it was that the investigation through the farm bureau secured a reduction in the cost of these bridges of $34,000. For the coming year a tax committee, with a member from each precinct, was organized to meet with the county board and assist in auditing bills and inspecting contracts." con-tracts." The Kentucky farm bureau, through Its tax committee, is co-operating with county farm bureaus In resisting increases in-creases In assessed valuation which are considered inequitable. Proper legal le-gal action Is taken In behalf of farm bureau members only. In Union county coun-ty 826,564 in taxes were saved In 1922 for 495 members of the farm bureau. Tills was an average saving of $53.63 per member. STATE FARM BUREAUS USING AX ON TAXES Facts Secured by Bureau of Agricultural Ag-ricultural Economics. Taxes on farm land In 1922 showed an Increase of 124 per cent over 1913. The average taxes on land, per farm, now stand at $103. With the personal property and income tax added, the average av-erage for each farm Is brought up to $156. On this basis the total direct tax now paid by agriculture is close to one billion dollars. These are the facts secured by the United States bureau of agricultural economics In a survey covering more than 6,000 farms In every part of the United States. Some reduction should be made In the figures, fig-ures, since the farms surveyed were larger than the average shown by the census. The conclusion reached by the department of research Is that the total direct tax paid by farmers would be around $000,000,000. or $140 per farm. Total receipts from direct taxation In the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922, were S5,C73,0()0,-000. S5,C73,0()0,-000. Direct farm taxes comprised 16 per cent of this total. Of state and local lo-cal taxes amounting to $.1,580,000,000, agriculture, It Is estimated, paid 22 per cent Several state and county farm bureaus bu-reaus have become Interested In studying study-ing their local taxation problems. In ten states, according to reports made to the American Farm Bureau federation, federa-tion, work has been undertaken which has yielded profitable results. The department of research report analyzes in detail the work carried on in these ten states. A fair Idea of this work can be gained by a synopsis of the taxation activities of the New Hampshire, Nebraska and Kentucky farm bureaus. The tax committee of the New Hampshire farm bureau found that tangible property, which Includes farms, homes, real estate, representing a wealth of approximately $500,00000 In New Hampshire, paid over $11,000,-000 $11,000,-000 taxes In 1922, while Intangible property in the form of securities, representing rep-resenting a wealth greater than all the tangible property, paid only $100,000. It also found that of the various classes of tangible property, farms and farmers' property In the form of live stock was bearing more than Its share of the burden, for It found In most cases property taxed at approximately 100 per cent of Its value, and sometimes some-times even more, while some of the big mercantile corporations of the state and some of the public utilities were taxed at from 30 to 35 per cent of their actual value. The committee recommended that the tax commission compile and make public figures Indicating the relative percentages of the total revenue both state and local which Is raised on different classes of property. It requested re-quested data showing the relation of assessed valuations to true values for each class of property. The tax work In Nebraska was started start-ed by the Thurston county farm bureau, bu-reau, In an analysis of public expenditures. expendi-tures. Before this compilation was made feeling had been running high In Thurston county against excessive taxes. Some of the taxpayers were blaming the stale for building a $!,-000,000 $!,-000,000 capltol, others blamed the road-bulbllng road-bulbllng program, and others the construction con-struction of bridges. The survey gave the facts, which made every one morn satistled. The work In Thurston county was reported re-ported to the state organization and. through the efforts of the state farm bureau tax cumuil 1 1 ee, similar (lata were compiled by the state treasurer fur each counly In the stale. The president pres-ident of the Nebraska farm bureau says that there was another feature of the work which had more direct results. re-sults. "In Thurston county It was found that the county bridge fund, and the whole Indebtedness fund, and the crnoigeiicy bridge fund, amounting to $2 of the $l.'.IO. were all spent for bridges, and II was believed In an un-autlioi'lzcil un-autlioi'lzcil way. The counly farm bureau bu-reau look the matter up and appointed a tax committee to Investigate. The Investigation resulted In calling the it nte cnglnceer and actually visiting ami checking the material and con Hlrtl-llon of lilt bridges which had been built for two years. It Is u long |