French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-01-04
Large Crowd Of Farmers
Attend tuesdays 7.
Meeting

At least one bundled and fifty farm
ers attended the big meeting at The
court house last Tuesday. which was
called for the purpose of otganizing q
Board of Agriculture in the county.
The meeting was car1edfto order by.
Dr. G, Few, who has spent mucn of
his time recently in trying to organize
the farmers of the county. S. r..
Goodspeed, Of EtoWahl station, was
elected Chairman and outlined the OBJ
iect of the meeting. He cited the
case of a farmer who said he would
trade the best farm in the county for
$500 cash He brought out the fact
that this county is importing apples,
hams. bacon and other produce when
il should bejexporting them.
. THE apples, pork and other things
imported into this county from the
west and north said the chairman,
..have six or more profits added to the
legitimate profit of the farmer who
grew them, and tle. consumers OF this
city pay these unnecessary profits.
But the consumer is not the greatese
loser in these transactions. The bis
losers are the farmers of Henderson
county who did not raise this produce.
There. is no good reason why all this
food Should not raised here, with
great benefits to the farmers and lower
Drices to the consumer. There is no
good reason why our farmers should
not market their, surplus, in New York.
Philadelphia, Baltimorey Washine ton
and other northern cities. These
cities are all less tman "a hours dfs-
tant from US.
4The farmers of the north and west
are disposing of their products IN
those cities at good prices and getting
rich at it. First, because they Ar
organized and cooperate in shipping
storage. etc. and secondly becaHss
they are using modern, progressive
methods as taught by our Government
and State agricultural departments In
their farming and stock growing
These farmers were not endowed DJ
the Almighty with any better brains
or muscles than we have. He didn't
give them better soil and not as good
a climate. but they are using the
brains and opportunities given to them
while we are not using ours. i
"The remedy"he said, SIS organization,
and among the possibilities for such
an organization, are a storage ware
house where products can be stored
until the market is right to unload;
money advanced to the farmer for the
goods he may have in the warehouse
of which he will be part owner; q
man who will find market at the
right time for the produce OF all the
farmers who belong to this organ1za-
ton, and who will attend to all the de-
tails of shipping etc., so that all the
farmer will have to do is TO raise the
stuff.
E. W. Ewbank, president OF the CIT
izens National Bank, spoke In tavor
of the farm loan association and the
of the Board o. AgricuI-
ture. He stated that the Ma
tionaI and State banks as whole
favored this great movement. He
that it would not Interfere
with the business of a local institu- !
ton. The farmers are the only class
Of peopIe in the whole country who |
are not organized. He emphasized
that the city is absolutely dependent |
upon the farmers and when they pros !
pered the whole country prospered.
He urged organization.
E. G. Millsaps, state agent, was call
ed upon for a few remarks. He stat
ed that three fourths of the counties !
in the state now have demonstrators
md that demonstration work must have
a central organization 20 work in con- |
junction with the agent.
Mr.. MilIsaps also explained IN de-
tail the new farm loan and credit sys-
TEN and used a black board in demon
strating the savings of the new bank
to the farmer. A number Of questions i
were asked by members OF the audi
ence and explained by Mr.. Millsaps.