Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-15
FARM ASSN. OPENS
DRIVE TO INCREASE:
MEMBERS TO 1000.
CAMPAIGN FOR MEMBERSHIP
OPENED TODAY PROSPECTS
FOR ARRIVING AT GOAL ARE
BRlGHT-SOILs ADVISER IesIEc
STATEMENT.

me La Sale County Better Farm
ing Association drive for 600 pem
oership Is on, The campaign opened
THIS morning with all committees on
Zip toe ready for the word. Through
OUT the day reports poured into OF.
tawa that the workers were meeting
with immense success, and indications
point that The goal will be reached
before the three days canvass is
Drought to a close.
bulletin was issued today from
the soil advisers office, saying:
Today marks the beginning Of a
new interest in organization among
farmers in La Sale County The Bet
ter Farming Association will bring its
membership up thousandfold. These
men viii also become members of the
Illinois Agricultural Association at The
sqale time
Keeping the world supplied with
food is one of The greatest problems
which meets us as an American PEG.
pie today, Our farmers have come to
realization of this fact and are now
facing the problem with a determine.
ton to leave no stones unturned in
doing this work most effectively and
most efficiently
Farmers realize that all big bust
ness is organized to protects its IN
terests and to meet all Other business
on an equal level, And why not aeri-
culture? After all is there a creator
business than that of the grOWing OIL
agricultural products? Is there Il bust
ness with problems that assumed
greater proportions or vary more
widely? To put the business of pro
ducing food ON a basis that is more
efficient and more profitable to the
producer without raising the price 10 |
the ultimate consumer requires organ I
ization.
Better methods Of production az" /
necessary. Greater conservation Of /
the natural fertility of the soil must I
be made. More# intelligent use Of /
horse and man labor must be exer /
cised All This VIII be brought about
by demonstrations and educational /
methods led chiefly by county advisers I
agricultural colleges, experiment sta /
tions and fam % rnals But this ISL
not an. After the products are grove I
and the live stool, prepered nr The (
there are other great prob
lens apars from the soil, the climate
and the site of original production
There are marketing problems, tor
age problems, transportation d.dicUl 4
ties. and interwoyen wish all othcg /.
questions are multituCe az Ineisla- Il
tive questions, the proper solution Of
which requires 81 concerted action
among all farmers Of the state or Ct
the nation.
This need has brought about the
organization OF farmers by counties
all over the United States. then by
states, and in November it is proposed |
TO form a nationa, organization Of the
tillers of the soil, This IL a mos.
rational plan Of organization, and the
growth has been entirely natural and
sane in its methods
Just now the Illinois Agriculture!
Association Is making up its member
ship of farmers in Illinois. The mem
)ership is being written in all c0Un
les, and in counties with coGa-y farm
bureaus only farm bureau members
,an join. New members join both a.
'ocaitions. Prospects are good for a
thousand members Of the La Sale
County Better Farming Association
md the Illinois Agricultural Asaocia
ion in La Sale County The real
for increasing the member
hip began ;oday. A quota has been
et for each township and some town
hips have already gone over the
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