Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-01-29

NAAC "a a L SAAD AASf 80
has now spread into more than 80 of
our ia counties and which has a
membership of approximately 10000
of the most progressive farmers IN
Missouri. No doubt the reader has
heard of the Farm Clubs. When they
first started out several years go
there were many who believed they
would prove another flash in the pan
as so many farm organizations have
in the past. But today they are not
only beginning to grip the state with
bands of steel, but some of the fore
most farm journals in the Country
profess to believe that the Farm Clubs
of Missouri present the long sought
for plan of farm organization and
hence are seeking to introduce them n
. to other states.
What is the Farm Club plan, you
ask? In the first place don't get it
into your head that it is a Farmers
Store movement. On the contrary,
the Farm Clubs are friendly to the
Country Town and hence their Con-
stitution and Bylaws throw a mantle
of protection around such leading
lines Of merchandise as groceries,
clothing, dry gods, hardware, shoes,
farm implements. lumber. etc. The
Farm Clubs however do take over
such incidental lines as flour. the diff
ercnt kinds Of feed such as bran,
shorts, cotton seed meal and cake, lin
seed oil meal, tankage, cattle, hog and
poultry feeds, commercial fertilizers.
binder Irvine. farm seeds, silos, coal.
salt, automobile tires tubes. etc-in
short, within a few exceptions The
commodities taken over are such as
usually constitute sidelines with a
grain elevator and thus the great
staple lines Of merchandise which con-
stitute the backbone of the Country
Town are left uumolested.
But the real purpose Of the Farm
Clubs Is revealed in their slogan.
production cost, together with a rea-
sonable profit for the fruits Of the
farmers sweat and toll" In shor., i.
is the first time in the history Of
American Agriculture that a farmers
organization mas ever deliberately
started out to get control Of what the
farmer produces in order that ne may
10 longer be compelled 70 pay the
other fellows price for the things ne
buys and accept the other fellows
price Tor ire fruits # his yearly toll
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ISOLATION, the parent organization, IS
the Big Stick which drives the nir
deals and fights the larger battles #
the Clubs Of the entire statc-ma&tnr
all in all the most compact and ef-
f~ectiyc farmers machine" ever de-
vcloped in the United States,
Money IN the Farmers FocNe'.