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Show Utah In Line With Big Membership On March 4, 1920, which marks the launching of the national organ-aiztion, organ-aiztion, the farm bureau membership totalled 456,000 On December 1 of the same year this total had increased in-creased to 744,401, and the last accounting ac-counting on June 1 showed the remarkable re-markable total of 1,052,114. Forty-s Forty-s three states are affiliated with the national na-tional bureau through state federations federa-tions and four others are affiliated through their county bureaus, making mak-ing a total of 47 sta(es aligned as to the American Farm Bureau federation. federa-tion. Utah is accounted for in the number of states having state farm bureau organizations. From the standpoint of membership, member-ship, Iowa leads with 118,000 members, mem-bers, Illinois second with over 110,-000; 110,-000; Ohio and Texas with over 100,-000 100,-000 each, while Michigan and Indiana In-diana , follow with nearly 100,000 each. The department of organization organiza-tion has set its quota at 1,250,000 members by December 1, 19 21, according ac-cording to the recent report, and from all indications the mark will be passed in spite of the financial situation in the rural districts. |