St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-01-22
COUNTY FARM RUREAUs
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Full Details Of Organization and for
Raising M0neg

! National Crop improvement Ser
aThe development of agriculture
education has largely grown into a
study CT farm management" says
'sert Isall, secretary OF the Crop INT
provement Committee, Council of
Grain Exchanges. There are hun
the United States under varying
conditions. The south is even more
alive to the situation than the north,
because the work of COUNTY demon
stration and investigation has been
under way there for seven or eight
years, and they have seen the direct
benefit of it.
County Farm Bureau
There is. one plan now upon
which the authorities have agreed,
and that is the county farm bureau
in charge of an agriculturist of bus
mess tact and judgment who shall
be selected by or satisfactory to the
extension department of the AL
cultural college of the state or to
the Office of farm management,
United States department of agri-
culture.
about two years ago this COM
mittee was organized to devise and
introduce ways and means of getting
a larger yield of better grain, and
after many conferences with bank
ers, railroads, manufacturers of
fertilizers, cereals and grain pro-
ducts, with the government, with the
leading educators and with all who
are interested, the county plan was
decided upon and practically adopt
ed by all concerned.
Agreement With Government
can agreement has been made
with the government and with the
colleges in most of the states to
establish county farm bureaus, and
the Council of Grain Exchanges
which has established headquarters
in Chicago, has become a clearing
house of information and is har-
monizing the work of all of these
| interests.
eve began raising our fund,
which was slow at first, and gradu-
ally the business world is learning
the meaning of work. After the 20
leading grain exchanges had contri-
buted a fund for its support, hun
dreds of business men, railroads
and associations throughout the
amounts to support the general
plans of the committee.
"After several thousand dollars
had been raised in this manner,
windfall of $1,00O,0OO was added
to the fund for the specific purpose
of offering $1,000 to each of 1000
counties which should undertake
their own development by forming
county farm bureaus.
'"The government has made ar
rangements with us to go ahead and
organize as many counties as pos
sible, and as soon as the fed
eral appropriation is available it
will take our place in the fund and
pay possibly one-half the expenses
of the farm bureau in each county
the second year and after We
are also making arrangements
whereby the direction of the county
agriculturist will be merged in a
state leader, who shall represent
both the United States government
and the state agricultural college.
Stirring up Enthusiasm
cit is our business to stir up the
enthusiasm and bring the counties
into a receptive mood and get them
supervision. We have the matter
up now with over 800 counties, and
there are some so county men al
ready on the job
well, Mr.. Ball, how do they go
about organizing counties so that
they may enjoy the benefits of your
fund and the goVernment's?"
"The inquiry generally comes
from commercial club or farmers
institute, though sometimes a single |
individual starts the thing going. |
The procedure generally is as fol- |
lows:
Cooperation of all Interests
First: In order to bring about
the cooperation of all the interests |
in the county where plans are being
made to install a farm demonstra-
tor, a meeting should be held, to
which shall be invited all organiza- |
tions interested in the development
of the county, including CONNER |
cial clubs, farmers Institutes,
oranges, farmers unions, breeders
organizations, etc.; also all persons
interested, whether belonging to /
any organization or not, including
farmers, bankers, merchants, mil |
lers, manufacturers, grain buyers,
land owners, county and city officers |
etc. The general purpose of this
meeting shall be to form an organi- I
zation whose objects shall be to OBJ
tain better returns from the farm /
and general Improvement of rural
conditions by the organization of a |
County Crop Improvement associa-
ton.
How to Organize
''This meeting may authorize
some existing organization to under
take the work or may form an in
dependent crop improvement asso-
citation, which may make its own
constitution and bylaws. In case
this work is undertaken by a COM
mercial organization, we recommend
that special provision should be
made permitting all persons to join
the agricultural section at a nomin-
al price. The minimum generally is
$1.O0, although there is no restric-