Show national president reports west interested in farm bureau work president J T R howard of 0 tile the american farm bureau aeration federation de ration upon his n from his recent trip to the pacific coast reports that tile the farm bureau movement is growing apace all over tile tho gi gibat eat west the president made the following st statement ate ill III nil all my tal talks Ks I 1 stress stressed eti tile the III importance of the county farm bin bui cans calls and tile the state faint faim bureau federations whatever success the american faini faim buican federation may inay have held had depends upon tile the fact that it has been build e d from ali the 0 f baim taim a I 1 ill up it grew naturally into a gibat national force because the local farm bureaus called for a federation as the caps capstone tolie or of tile the tuio tine whose foundations had been carefully laid by the farmers themselves 1 I found in california an interest ing situation because of the great variety of agricultural products produced there moro more than in all farmers in the golden state are hard put just now on oil account of the long distance to their markets most of ill all they are interested in tran transportation S por tation lower freight charges their deep interest in fisit marketing is shown by the tact that california is sending twenty five delegates to the fruit marketing conference in chicago on april 4 1 I found in california Cali toinia a surprisingly thorough understanding between tile the different sections of the state and a fine sympathy between the various farmers organizations they understand dundei stand the intel dependence of all real farm organization they aio all looking to the farm bureau to play the chief role as the groat great inter organization society up in the great northwest the interest terest of the farm bureau amounts to fervor in the hearts of the farmers all america will be looking to the northwest farm bureaus with unstinted admiration some day if they beep going forwald as they have started they were all eager to know about the commodity marketing ar plans and came forward fori ard with hearty endorsement of the committee of en teens plan when it was inas explained instead of the expected friction which some expected I 1 found tho the finest co operation the farmers of the west ale aie suf feibing from the same general complaint of all agriculture lack of markets insufficient credits and high trans poi tation organized organised sed agriculture is properly addressing its thoughts and energy to find amelioration tor for these ills |