Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-18
TO KEEP MONEY At HOME
Washington Muzzy Gives His Idea Of
the Benefits Arising from the
Agricultural Society.
He Advocates the Formation of
County Organization as Well
AS State Fair.

The following letter has been handed
to The TRIBUNE with request for it's
publication:
TO the Editor of The Tribune:
The move to organize state agricul-
tural society here in Great Falls at this
time seems to be fortunate move, as
whether it succeeds or not, it affords an
opening and in fact makes necessary the
organization of a county farmers assso-
citation, and to my mind this should
have been done at the first.
Permit me to speak of the duties and
possibilities of such an organization.
Mr.. Myron Brown very justly said that
the holding of fair was but a small
part of the work an agricultural society
should do. l will go even further ard
say the holding of fair is the last of it's
work and the least IN importance.
Had we now farmers association or
ganized in this county, with a central
Office in this city, we could reach every
farmer in the county through the lead
ing members of the society in the various
neighborhoods with folding cards.
The first should be sent out soon con-
tanning questions regarding seeds, of
grain and vegetables; who has seeds to
sell, what varieties and how much; also
who must purchase seeds; what varities,
and how much. A week or ten days at
most, would put the central office in
possession of accurate knowledge as to
who had seeds for sale and how much
was for sale, in the hands of farmers;
and who needed them, then it
hn &C.,
seller and buyer to be benefited in the
sale and purchase of seeds, and keep our
acclimated and vigorous seed in our own
county; and too, learn our farmers to
look to one another for the things they
need. Then in March or earlier the same
could be done with the pure bred stock
some have for sale and others have to
buy.
We have good stock of all kinds here
in the county, so that the would be buyer
need scarcely 60 out of the county to
suit himself in quality and price,
Then by June l cards could be sent
out prepared so the farmers could each
return the number OF acres he has put in
of every kind of crop he has planted.
Other cards would from time to time be
sent out on which to report condition of
crops and any other facts useful to farm
ers hereafter. Then in the fall cards
should be sent out on which every farmer
could report the amount of each crop he
has for sale.
These are only few of the many ways
that the farmer could be benefited at
little cost by an active organization that
was alive all the year through, giving
farmers timely information as to growing,
harvesting and putting their produce on
the market at such times and IN such
quantities as the market required.
With such an organization in operation
it would not be difficult to hold our
county fair in time to enter the prize
takers in the county fair for prizes in the
state fair, with good chance of taking
prizes there also
1t is now known to many that Montana
grown seeds are far stronger and in every
way superior in vitality to eastern grown
seeds, and it is probably true that farmers
who have grown seeds have enough to
spare to supply those who need to buy,
or nearly so, and some medium OF in
forming each of the others wants is at
present needed to benefit both The
same applies to stock. By pursuing this
method farmers could not only realize
greater profit, but could keep good
deal of money in the county that would
otherwise 60 elsewhere for these supplies.
w. MUzzY.