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Show FARM BUREAU OUTLINES A GOODPROGRAM AUTO EXCURSION IS PLANNED; WILL PUBLISH A PAPER At a county farm bureau directors' meeting held in Beaver, February 10, it was decided to exclude the following follow-ing projects from the working list for this year: No. 5,' Beaver County Fair; No. 2, Field Irrigation Test; No. 8, Farmers' Local Exchange. The last one will be conducted in the Farm Bureau News. The directors reported that very little committee work had been done in any of the districts, in either project pro-ject or membership work. It was unanimously agreed to publish pub-lish a monthly County Farm Bureau News, to try to get the first issue out March 1, 1917. The first page will be devoted to timely agricultural articles and instructions to co-operators on Farm Bureau projects. The editorial page will be the second one. Page number three will be given to writeups from the local farm bureaus with one column for classified ads free to farm bureau members. . On the last page will be twelve advertisements advertise-ments two by two inches square. Each of these ads will cost ten dollars dol-lars a year of twelve issues and should be by people who buy agri-C'.itural agri-C'.itural products or sell farm supplies. sup-plies. It is desired to have most of thcise local ads. These ads should pay for the paper, printing and folding fold-ing of the News. The county agent and farm bureau members will have to do the writing. All bureau members mem-bers will get the paper free for qualified quali-fied membership to the bureau. It was decided to co-operate with Murdock Academy and the Home Economics Association in conducting conduct-ing some one-day local Institutes in the county. The Farmers' Auto Excursion is to take place the first week in next August and is to be one of the big events of the season. Mr. H. F. Baker for Minersville and W. W. Farrar for Beaver, were appointed to secure a barn suitable for conducting clinic demonstration for bureau members. President W. W. Farrar with It. B. White were placed on a committee to meet with the county commissioners commission-ers next time they meet and petition them for an office and some equipment equip-ment in the County Court House, for the county agent and the Beaver County Farm Bureau. The county agent was instructed to make agreements for co-operation in potato growing, in furnishing fat hogs for the April 1 market, in importing im-porting registered cattle from the east, to sign and send them to the district presidents who were to get committees busy in soliciting signers sign-ers and getting bureau members all at the same time. The committee was to have a limited time to do the work and the cattle shipment is to be made the 15th of April. H. A. CHRISTIANSEN, |