Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-04-12
THE FARMERS FORUM
Meeting in School No. ID.

Meeting in School NO. Ii.
ho Saturday evening, April Is, there will
held in School IS: This 'o viii p %Geady
be the last of these meetings until next
tau land SO special effort is being
made to make this an extra good one.
me school Will take an active part on
the program.
Coffee and lunch will be served. Come
out and enjoy the evening.
Program for the Golden Rod Farmers'
Club.
For April IA. 1915.
Talk on Raising Chickens. ..........
Reading. Golden Rod Rad Mtoe Ain'
sneeci ''.''''..'.'...;; cn WslteE Qyale
TSnch served by the iadia: alter f fEs
program. Everyone cordially invited.
Il p: ERIE F Rzfsi Sec.
Takes Another View.
Pennock, Mimi. April 10, 1916.
Editor Willmar Tribune:
In your issue of March %, there is
a piece called 1.-THE Farmers Time"
which I read with interest. I see it is
taken from Successful Farming" I
was surprised to see that farmers are
discouraged from fixing up their har-
y,
a farmers time is so valuable that he
should not take time to do any repair
work.
Now, beg to differ little on that
subject. A strap for the harness can
| be mended in ten minutes while g. trip
| to town takes ten hours; besides q good
deal of repairing can be done on rainy
Well, the coming generation will not
spend the time SO unwisely, If I am
any judge. Because most of the child
may we hope that farm, failures viii
nd 70 eas aeE
any idea of the cash value of time ac-
counts for more farming failures than
that it was because the farmer got
| only forty-three cents out of every dol
lar he made. that accounted for most
Most farmers and their families work
from fourteen to sixteen hours day
from spring to late in autumn so they
e G the little
in congress and tell him you do not
want the "Moss-Hollis Rural Credits
the money power wants to get thru
| Congress.
f they get it passed by Congress, it
will perhaps take many years before
we get another that will be of help to
Hollis rural Credit Bill provides for a
and direct q Federal Farm Loan Bur
members; nm -Four Of these are to be
to be divided into twelve Federal land
bank districts. each of these districts
to have a Farm Loan Registrar: Be-
Then the Federal Farm Loan Board
must employ attorneys. experts, clerks
kinds of banks, the Federal Land bank
kinds of National Farm Loan Associa.
tons, the Limited and the Unlimited
The Farm Loan Association must re:
ceive charter which must be passed passed
Farm Loan Association must subscribe
for stock in a Farm Loan Bank to the
extent OF i've f. per 6. gent on each loan FL II
T Tew money A ON hts land, must b Become ONE
member of National Farm Loan AS
the association for every 500 he wish
Another provision Of the bill is that
one-fifth of the members can preven'
an applicant from getting loan: So
brother, farmers, let US get that bill
but as you will see, we will have {
good many Of those that do not "tot
or spin" to support.
Honorable Volstead voted to take tn.
out Of the hands of the Post Master
General. It would seem that he like:
better to serve the express companie:
him me 8ote asanse the No. 81
Let us farmers take a little time t,
think, and not let the other fellow d.
all the thinking for u.s. A Farmer.