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Show Fairview Farmers Making A Drive for Membership The local Farm Bureau at Fairview is making a drive for membership and have submitted the following review of the activities of the Farm Bureau movement to show the individuals indi-viduals what is being accomplished by the organization. The same plan might well be put in to effect in other communities. To The Fairview Fanners: Is the Farm Bureau worth five dollars dol-lars a year to you? Let us analyze some of its benefits and see where oui money is spent. We shall begin at the American Farm Bureau with headquarters at Chicago. Their secretary, Mr. Winder, a Utah man writes, "It is a matter of pride to all of us to know that we as members of the Farm Bureau Federation have more state Farm Bureau members than we have had any time in the past. We have improved transportation transpor-tation in many respects, and are better able to serve you in 1929 than ever before." be-fore." You know how we have lobeyed the agriculture cause at Washington for these and other great services we have done, you pay fifty cents. Utah Farm Bureau Benefits From Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean stat delegates met at Chicago to discuss agriculture and its needs. Some years ago we endeavored to pass a law to classify property tax, to place taxes according to ability to pay. We country farmers, not understanding its benefits to us, voted this tax down. Again the state Farm Bureau has taken tak-en up this tax fight. If we succeed to pass this bill again, for your great benefit ben-efit vote for it. We succeeded in getting get-ting a sliding scale contract for beet growers, from which they received a great deal of benefit. We have fought your battles such as preventing the freight raise and we give to you the Bureau Farmer, a most valuable paper, together with price lists from our commercial com-mercial department of all kinds of hardware, paints, oils and everything handled by the Mountain States implement imp-lement Company such as machines, wagons, ropes, cables, harnesses, etc. at 15 per cent discount. For services such as these and other similar work, you pay the state Farm Bureau two dollars. Sanpete County Farm Bureau Benefits For some reason Sanpete County has lagged for membership, but this does not make the Sanpete County Farm Bureau plan wrong, as it stands for us to cooperte one local with another, to 'solve our problems. As an illustration, the poultry industry can effect a branch in Sanpete, whereby it can bring service to you by bringing your feed and taking your eggs every few days from farmers all through the county. We have an expense each year to organize each local and to send our county president to plead our wants to the state members, that they maj act in our behalf; for this and similar reasons you pay fifty cents. Fairview Local Farm Bureau Benefits We hear often, "What has the Farm Bureau done for me?" We cite you first our greatest industry, the dairy. Do you remember how many cents you got as a raise when the first Farm Bureau pool of cream was sold? We would like for you to compare prices of cream where there are no cooperative stations; if you discover this cooperative coopera-tive station has helped you get better prices show your appreciation by your trade. This dairy industry has grown nearly to its field of limit. Trebi barley grows well on dry land and also on irrigated land, and has a well-balanced well-balanced feed ration for dairy stock. To offset the high price of hay, feed and raise more barley. If you are short on pasture try a sweet clover field, it is recommended very highly. We have been told that Fairview has been able to pay her taxes nearer in full thanthan any other in the county. For this reason we boost the dairy industry. Next to that is the wool and lamb pool, which has served everybody. The committee has tried hard to make the pool a success. We urge you to try as hard to keep your wool clean as it has been the last few years. You should try to raise the best lambs possible pos-sible for the market, as all buyers' contracts states: no scrubs, cripples, diseased, long-tails, buck, heavy wrinkled bodies and burry lamDS are accepted. You can often aviod this loss. ' You should appreciate the cooperation coopera-tion of this committee with the aid and influence of Peter Sundwall, for the work they have done on the wool pool. They are now working on a county-wide pool. ' We invite you to investigate the poultry industry. Sanpete counts shipped 5400 cases of eggs in nine 'months, a cash income of $45,000. How much did you get? We now mention a mighty discouraging product, the most essential to human lives ,which still sells below the cost of production, that is wheat. What can we do to better its price? Some say that the price will have to be adjusted at Washington. Wash-ington. Some say it will take the whole nation to solve that problem The big men are willing to help us solve it by borrowing more money, perhaps our senators at Washington think we shall have to solve that problem prob-lem on the farm. Can we help do oui bit? Benjamin Brown, the sales agent of the Utah Poultry Producers Associ-otinn Associ-otinn ruhnse hearinuarters is at New York, the man who started to gather eggs in his Ford automobile in Sanpete when the Farm Bureau cooperated with the poultry industry, said when asked what could be done concerning Utah wheat: "Not many years in the future the poultry will consume our surplus wheat at the present growth" Last year Sanpete bought forty thousand baby chicks, this year she expects to buy a hundred thousand, a sixty per cent raise. If this is carried over in the state Mr. Brown's vision will soon come true concerning the surplus ! wheat. If anyone is interested enough i 'to get into the poultry business, place ! your orders early with the Apex Hatch-! Hatch-! ery at Manti or see Hyrum Mower at : Fairview. This company expects to I hatch 500 000 in 1929. i The Farm Bureau adopted the Bear i River Mutual Fire Insurance because of its low rate of interest. It has saved Fairview a good many dollars on about . thirty thousand dollars written up the j past year. I This local the past few years has been holding a wheat day and has had 'the services of Juab County experiment experi-ment farmer, Mr. Bracon, also their 'County Agent. Mr. Bracon is one of the best authorities on dry farming In Utah. He gave information and in- 'struction concerning the sowing of more 'seed and other valuable information which has added many hundreds of bushels of wheat to Fairview. ' This local has stood ready to help the Agriculture College extension work. We have organized pure bred bull associations as well as pure bred calf clubs, which has addect better Wood to the dairy industry. We have gathered up and returned exhibits to our state and county fairs and have at present several dozen samples of grain and "ribbons as well as a dairy display be-ins; be-ins; placed at the capitol buiding at Salt Lake City. We have promoted copper-carbonate treatment for grain; twenty-eight hunred bushels were treat ed last year. We also handled four 'hundred-fifty pounds of poisoned oats for rodents. These are some of the ac-complishmnts ac-complishmnts of our local. Can you 'live in our midst as a farmer and not receive any benefits? Here you spend the last two dollars of the five dollars for your membership fee. Join us and be a booster, as we don't intend these benefits to go to non- 'members. When your orders for coal reaches a carload lot, we shall serve you. All these benefits are yours for cost as a . member. Place your orders with Ver-nile Ver-nile Stewart and order you wool sacks before January 19, as we hope to finish our drive by that date. Respectfully, Faii-view Local Farm Bureau Com. |