Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-13
Farm Bureau Assistance.

wv. B. Deering, Hollis, President Maine State
Federation Of Farm Bureaus.)
The Farm Bureau should assist farm
ers' business organizations for the sake
Of the financial benefit they present the
farmer. This assistance may be rendered
by helping to organize, finance, super
wise, encourage and advertise them and
to establish cooperation between them.
Cooperation enhances purchasing pow
sr, and selling power, might cheapen
transportation, establish sort of "Brad-
street" for the elimination of bad bills,
found an employment bureau for settling
the help problem. 1t night group the
buildings of these organizations centrally
for reasons Of economy and fullest CO.
operation, and, finally, strengthen them
BY federating them into state wide and
then national enterprises. Mutual ef-
fort will standardize products, systema-
tize farm businesses and reap success
and justice.
So let rs do all We can to advance the
interests Of farmers unions, community
markets, farmers exchanges, farmers
dairy corporations, banks, insurance
companies and like business groups; to
establish more of these and new farmers
cooperative businesses, such az cheese
factories, slaughter house for cattle,
sheep, and poultry, blacksmith shops,
etc. Let rs discourage all Influences an.
tagonistic to these and remember that
loyalty to our fellow farmers demands
that We do not stand In each others
light.
Acts Of seeming lack of loyalty are
sometimes done thoughtlessly, as once
when one of our farmers union m EN- bers
bought quantity of grain st very con-
siderable saving beside his rebate, and
then bought some little thing, as yeast
cake, because they were selling It at a
cent less, at another store. Farmers
markets, also, have been hurt BY the
very people they were trying to ben
eft, when farmers have passed them by
for the sake of price placed tempora.
rily higher, purposely to toll them away
from their fellows. Strange as 1t may
seem, our hardest task is to educate our
brothers to use those agencies organized
expressly for their good.
Glorious, indeed, to pull together that
the farmer may, like other labor, get
shorter hours and more pay, not, how
ever, by ruthless strikes, but by honors-
BILE, constructive means.
The Farm Bureau has been likeued to
the hub Of great wheel Of development
with each spoke farmers business Or
ganization. The former assists the latter
by arousing interest, arranging meetings,
conducting preliminary meetings and,
after their start, by urging support OF
farmers and meetings of managers.
A reciprocal assistance of the business
organizations to the Farm Bureau Is only
fair. For instance, lime, the wide need
of which the Farm Bureau demonstrates,
and chemicals for home mixing of fertil-
izers, farmers unions could make an
effort to secure in season by securing
and sending early orders. Farmers un-
ions can mix cattle, hog and poultry
rstions under the direction of the Farm
Bureau ut small cost and establish proper
feeding. Farmers unions can carry seed
best suited to Maine, such as Maine SAC
oats and N. Y. Mammoth flint corn fol
silage, and urge their use. All this be-
cause all farmers business enterprises
should adopt the Farm Bureau slogan,
"The Promotion and Protection of Agri
culture"