Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-08-07
AGRICULTURAL
BULLETIN

Under date of July 81 the seventh
bulletin prepared by the agricultural
committee has been issued from
Denver to me emrbscmfwypetaoinh
Denver to members OF the Colorado
Bankers association. as follows:
1t is with great deal of satisfac-
ton that | am privileged to report
to the members OF this association
that the Agricultural Committee is no.
longer an experiment, but has been,
by unanimous vote OF the association
at its convention, held at Colorado
Springs, made permanent depart
ment OF the association.
The general plan and work. up to
the time of the convention was made
possible and carried on by your sec
retary through the permission OF the
Executive Council. and was in the
nature OF an experiment, but the sec
retary's report to the convention cal
led their attention to its great value
as an educational, as well as an ad-
vertising medium. The attention that
has been created not only in our
territory, but throughout the United
States shows that it is of the great
est value to the association as well
as to its cooperative value in assist
ing towards up-building OF the state.
As case of Applied Psychology,
the mere fact that the ffty-six bank
ers who have so far reported for this
Committee are taking greater inter
est in the agricultural development
than before, is of great benefit and
not only that, but every member of
the association is reading the reports
and making comparison with the de-
velopment of his territory as any
velopment in their own territory.
The banker having as much pride in
the development of his territory as
any other business man. after no.
ticing these reports, will become
more interested and closer affiliated
with the agricultural development as
well as the farmers themselves, and
\ the farmer knowing that the banker
is taking this interest in him not
from him, will be more apt TO ask ad-
vice and pay more heed to it when
given This will have the effect of
releasing many hundreds OF thousands
of dollars for constructive purposes
that would not have been had this
unusual interest not been taken by
fthe bankers.
Mr.. B. f. Harris, chairman of the
| Agricultural Commission OF the
American Bankers Association stated
that. although this was one Of the
youngest committees of the 38 State
Bankers Associations. there were none
more constructive, efficient nor ener-
getic than ours, and we had a very
unusual feature in the reports as to
conditions throughout the state; in
fact, he stated that to his knowl-
edge it was the only committee OF
the Bankers Association having a
systematic compilation of crop re-
ports.
Mr.. Fred A. Farnsworth, general
secretary of the American Bankers
Association. in his address before the
convention, on cooperation. spoke
very favorably of the work, and Mr..
| VIM. G. Edenp, assistant secretary
OF the Central Trust Company OF
Illinois. although his subject was.
Good Roads" said he felt it incum-
bent for him to speak OF the work
that had been accomplished by this
committee.
Ex-President Fred o. Roof, as well
as our reelected secretary. MIR. Paul
| Hardy. both made special mention
OF the work of the committee in their
annual reports. and two OF the group
chairmen in their reports suggested
that the Resolustions Committee
should embody in their resolutions
a recommendation of the committees
work. This was not done, however.
but by special resolution, unanimous
ly adopted. our work was made per-
|'manent feature of the Colorado
Bankers Association.
Up to the time OF the convention
there were SO members of the associ-
alton reporting to this committee,
representing AZ countless Implications
being caused where the District
Chairman had a county committee
man as well in their respective coun-
ties. There are yet. however, several
counties from which we have never
heard. viz: Adams. Archuleta, Baca.
Dolores, Ebert. Gilpin Gunnison,
Hinsdale. Jackson, Kit Carson, Lari-
mer, Montezuma, Park, Pitkin, Sum-
init and Teller; and in order to make
the work thoroughly efficient. we
should have banker from each OF
these counties reporting at intervals
OF about 90 or 90 days to the COM
mittee. This is a cooperative state
wide proposition under the direction
OF the COLORADO Bankers Association
and we want the entire state repre-
sented. Several bankers from the
above named counties, during the
convention promised to report to the
committee. | would be pleased to
have some banker volunteer to report
for each of the above named coun-
ties for the ensuing year.
A very large percentage of last
years committee have volunteered
and agreed to continue the work for
another year, and in some of their ac-
ceptanccs have shown that they will
take a much greater interest than in
the past. Quoting from letter from
Mr.. Nj. T. Nelson, vice president OF
the Phillips County State Bank, Hol-
| woke, Colorado: 'In the near future
will eudeavor to organize Phillips
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