The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-23
Topeka "Lady Farmer" Spoke
to National Association.
Miss Louise Krigbaum Warns
Against ManipuIatOrs.
TOPEKAN MADE VICE PRESIDENT
L. L. VrOOman Selected at Meet
ing in Kansas City.
Plea for Better Marketing Key
stone of Big Meeting.

Kansas City, No, Feb. 23-MISS
Louise Krigbaum, a farmer living near
Topeka. speaking at the session of the
National Farmers association at the
Hotel savoy, told the delegates they
were permitting their pockets to be
picked by Inscriptions market mani
pulators; and that no matter how good
business men farmers became as in
dividuaIs, their business would con-
tinUe TO decline unless they also be-
came good business men as CO.
operative class.
Miss Krigbaum was one Of the two
woman farmers accredited as dele
gates by Governor Capper. Mrs. Frank
Organ Of Howard, Kan. was the
other Mrs. Organ, however, really
lives at Topeka, where her husband is
assistant state auditor she superIn-
tends farm work, while Miss Krig
baum makes her living on the farm
and does the field work herself.
Yes, am a farmer and not an
agriculturist," Miss krigbaum ex-
planned When 1 saw six years ago
that I would either have to sell the
home place or move onto it, 1 decided
IN favor of farming, because father,
who is very old, would be better con-
tented at the old home Having
reached that determination. I said
would not shirk any duties that man
assumes in farming
Reporters Took 1t As a Joke
of course, did not quite keep that
promise TO myself" she said with a
smile. The Topeka reporters thought
it was big joke and they wrote me
I'D as a human pile driver who could
sink a nail in to the mead with one
blow of a hammer. They said dld
my butchering, knocking the hogs IN
the head with an ak
As a matter of fact. I detest hogs
they are so dirty and SO much trou-
Die and I do not keep any at all 1
would lots rather raise chickens,
though 1 can't kill them. either.
MiIks seven Cows.
But Miss Krigbaum milks seven
cows pIows and tills the crops and,
with the aid Of one man, puts up the
hay each year. At first she had 10
do all the work herself She likes it,
she says.
Miss Kirgbaum has accumulated
definite ideas about farm problems
She keeps books. knows how much
she is M king each year, and mas a
definite Improvement program which
includes bettermentS for her home
with a stated budget of $3.50 each year
The last annual $3.50 included q. mod
ern heating system, paid for by 100
days of eggs from her flock or 20
= have found lots of the troubles of
the farmer are due to his own unpro-
oressiveness,' she said Here we are
Z here. trying to help the average farm
er. and he is not even represented
The men at this meeting are not aver
age or they would not be here still
when the farmer has done his best,
and produced a crop, a Spectator
steps in who does not even see the
crop and makes more out of it net
than the farmer does gross. There are
/ too many people between the farmer
and the consumer, to the detrtment
/ Of both
Marketing Bureaus a Remedy.
/ Il believe if we can just get con-
gress to pass the pending bill which
| will enable farmers to establish mar
/ keting bureaus. it will put farming on
I a. profitable basis and will reduce the
price TO the consumer. 1 am sure the
[ farmers will go into it, for il the
! government supervises it and fnspects
1 the products they will lose the distrust
+ that always prevented them from CO.
operating"
The association was organized yes
/ terday afternoon with the election OF
I officers. The session will be continued
/ today.
New officers are: c. D. Resler,
/ Chanute, Kan, president; L. L. Vroo-
man. Topeka. vice president. L M
Wright, Waukesha. Wis. secretary; L
". Nelson. Bunceton. Mo, treasurer.
and tie following directors; ]. w
Cecil. Columbia. Tenn; L. H. Brock
man, Parker's Prairie, MINI; J. G.
Rennie, Stotesbury, Mo-
The association adopted resolution
favoring national defense and federal