Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-11
TO LAUNCH BIG
 MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN.
LscaI Farm Bureau Will Co., operate in Statewide Movement.

On Monday, March 1, statewide drive will be launched to raise the funds needed to finance the farm: bu- reaus of Connecticut for the coming year. This campaign was mapped out at a meeting of farm bureau presi- dents in Hartford attended by Presi- dent c. P. Bushnell, and the Connecti- cut state council of defense has set aside this week to be known as Farm Bureau week. Each county has defi- nitely decided upon the amount of money it must have to meet the de- mands made upon it and the money will be raised among it's own people, and the money secured will be used in meeting the problems of conserva- ton and production in that county. Federal Food Administrator Robert Scoville, who met with the farm bu- reau presidents, spoke very plainly as to what was expected of these or- ganiZations during the coming months. The United States food adminisua- tion," he said, relies upon you to put across a program which will insure | the maximum production and con- | servation of food in your copnyt. If you are not organized to do this, or l if for some reason your financial sit-
 
 immediate steps to remedy the con dition in order that there shall be nc breakdown of the machinery at crit ical moment and no slackening of the work for lack of funds" He pointed ut that the farm bureau was in the same position as is the Red Cross 1T relief work and that the extreme seri. ousness of the food situation made imperative the recognition of this po- sitien upon the part of the people throughout the state.
 Directors Make Town AlIotments.
 The board of directors of the New London county farm bureau at g recent meeting voted to join 1T the statewide farm bureau member ship and financial campaign and ap
 portioned the number of member
 which each town is expected to se
 cure during Farm Bureau week
 These numbers include the presen
 membership of 800. Bozrah 50 mem
 bers, Colchester 15o, East Lyme 1aS Franklin 50. Griswold 200. Groton 3oC Lebanon 100, Ledyard 50. Lisbon 5C Lyme 50, Montville 125, New Lendol
 1000, North Stonington 100, Nerwicl !. 1,500, Old Lyme 100, Preston 100, Sa lem 25. Sprague 150, Stonington 40t l Voluntown 25. Waterford 150
 Slogan 4,o00 Members.
 The farm bureau membership cam
 paign will be conducted by the agri cultural director and the home eco monies director in each town. Thes two, with the assistance of the tow committee the state council of de fense, the local branch of the Edua
 Suffrage league, members of the Stat : Manufacturers association and othe . local organizations wishing to co , operate, will form teams of canvass CTS to cover the entire territory i . their town. These teams will solici | memberships for the farm bureau i
 the same manner in which canvasse
 have been made for the Red Cros Liberty loan and other national drive , Farm Bureau Manager F. c. warne
 will assist the directors of the eat,
 paign in organizing their committee . furnishing the material needed in th 6 way of bulletins showing the wcr . accomplished the past year by th t New London county farm bureau an . asrlcultural production and eonsel ]. vation work being assigned the far, bureau by the United States depart f ment of agriculture, the state counc }, of defense and the federal food admir- 1stratien. Emergency appropriation :. by congress to the amount of S5, e to New London county depend upe ?, the success of this campaign. Fo,
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