The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-06-13
FARM BUREAU NOTES

1t is hoped that a large number of
farmers aside from those who will
take an active part in the member
ship drive will come to the meeting
at Lawrence. The Farm Bureau is
an organization of and for the far
mers of the County and it will be-
come just what the farmers of the
county will make it. A great many
farmers do not as yet fully under
stand the Farm Bureau of the county
or the state, but every farmer should
and at the Lawrence meeting will be
a good place to learn a great deal
about the movement. Some farmers
without doubt will be against the
Farm Bureau even after fully under
standing it, but all at least owe the
organization their serious consider
ationand an intelligent conclusion
based on the facts regarding the
Farm Bureau of Van Buren county.
1t is expected dinner will be served
at noon by some of the ladies organ
izations of Lawrence community, so
the meeting can be an all day affair.
Plan on attending this meeting and
there rub elbows with progressive
farmers from all over the county,
Keep the date of June 18th, in mind
and open, so the meeting will not be
missed
The Farm Bureau meeting will be
held in Lawrence Park if the weather
in ore
Hall, and will be called at Ten A. M.
on Tuesday, June 18th. While this
meeting is primarily for the town
ship chairmen and school district men
for the membership drive, every far
mer in the county is invited to be
present and take an active part in
the proceedings.
The Farm Bureau movement IS
growing all over the United States
and it is we'll for'all thinking farmers
to look into the idea and be in
position to intelligently decide whet-
her to be for or against the move
ment Certainly every farmer in the
county should become familiar with
the movement which may be able to
do as much for the farming business
as the Farm Bureau movement prom
Uses to be able to do. Surely there
can be no better place to become
familiar with the working of the sys-
tenn than at a meeting Of the nature
the Lawrence meeting will be.
At this meeting there will be gather
ed together from all over the county,
progressive farmers who will meet to
make plans to develope and make
more effective their organization, the
County Farm Bureau. 1t seems as
though no man in the state of Michi-
gan could be in a better position to
acquaint the farmers of the county
with the work of the county and state
Farm Bureau than Mr. C. A. Bing-
ham, Secretary of the State Farm
Bureau. Mr.. Bingham is a large
farmer and fruit grower from Oak
land county who was instrumental in
causing the organization of a Farm
Bureau in his county and who has
stuck right by the organization and
thus is in close touch with the coun-
ty Farm Bureau work.
AS Secretary of the State Farm
Bureau, he has a good line on the
activities of this organization, he will
be present at Lawrence to discuss
with the farmers Of the county in
their own language, some of their
problems and the part the Farm
Bureau may play in the solution of
them.
Remember the date, June 18th, and
the place, Lawrence, either in the
park or Grange Hall and plan on
attending, but do still more, attend
this meeting and help put Van Buren
County in the class of counties of the
state which have strongly alive Farm
Bureaus.