Middletown transcript., 1919-11-08
The FARM BUREAU
Planning For 500 Members For
The Year 1870
COUNTY COMMITTEES ASSIGNED

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Eight hundred members for 1920 is
the standard set by the New Castle
County Farm Bureau at special meet
ing and luncheon held at the Hotel
Nobis. Wilmington, last Saturday.
According to plan submitted by Mr..
C. P. Dickey and which was adopted at
the meeting, each of the fifteen farm
bureau committees of the county is as.
signed q membership quote as follows:-
Newark Is, Bear so, Hockessin 100.
Fairview so, Stanton so, Townsend Is.
Middletown 100, Odessa Is, Smyrna SO.
Talleyville 80, Centerville 30, Kirkwood
so, Mt. Pleasant Is, Deakyneville 50.
During November meeting will be
held of each community committee at
which in addition to the adoption of q
community program of work, the MEM
bership campaign will be given special
attention. County Agent R. o. Baus-
man and County Club Leader Agnes r.
Medill will attend each Of these meet
ings
To stimulate an active campaign. Mr..
Dickey recommended team contest.
The eight communities north OF the
Delaware Canal will constitute the
northern team, and the seven commune
ties south of the Canal will constitute
the southern team. President Frank
Yearsley appointed Mr.. R. G. Bucking-
ham, of Fairview, captain of the north
ern team and Mr.. Lee Pennington, OF
Odessa, captain of the southern team.
The team securing the highest MEM
bership will be given dinner by the
losing team. The Boys and Girls
Clubs will take an active part in this
| contest. The campaign will terminate
with the annual meeting of the farm
bureau to be held the first part of De-
cember.
The adoption and discussion of the
farm bureau program of work for 1870
was probably the main feature OF the
meeting. Representatives from the
State Holstein Friesian Association,
from the locals of the Interstate Milk
Producers Association and from the
Corn Growers Association were pres.
ent and took an active part in the dis
cussion.
The following are the main features
of the program of work formulated
which will be submitted at the annual
farm bureau meeting for final adoption:
DAIRY AND LIVESTOCK
l. To strengthen the Milk Producers
Association.
| 2. Encourge farmers to take advan-
tage of the So, 900 appropriation for the
control of tuberculosis among dairy
cattle.
i 3. Accomplishment of the cow test
ing association slogan, namely, Ten
Cow Testing Associations for New Cas-
tie County,
| 4. Continuing for two years the cost
of milk production project which is be-
ing conducted in the county by the u.
Is. Dairy Department in cooperation
with our two COW testing associations.
i S. That the ''pure bred bull on every
farm" project be major one for 1920.
6. That the importation and distribu-
ton of pure bred females be continued.
SOILS AND CROPS
| l. That the farm burea =
New Castle County Corn s
win ,ue hehd In Eden Rafi.
, December IL, IL and Is.
' County's largest corn shcw.
2. The holding of home orchard am
potato spraying demonstrations in a
mapy communities as seems feasible.
FARM MANAGEMENT
/. A county meeting will be held il
: the Levy Court Room of the nev
4 County Building, Wilmington, at 1.3
November Is, to perfect the Count.
T Farm Loan Association through whicl
: farmers may secure federal loans.
2. The farm bureau will lend ever.
. effort in assisting farmers in keeping
!. records through the use of the farm
n record books provided free of cos
through the State Bankers Association
a and the farm bureau cooperating.