The Cordova daily times., 1920-12-01

FARM BUREAU MEMBERSHIP
 OVER MILLION

| CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (by Associated 1 l Press).-J. R. Howard, president of | the American Farm Federation, an | nounces that the federation has now 1 over million members and has 35 state organizations affiliated with it. | | The national federation took per manent form here last spring and es- tablished headquarters in Chicago this past summer. l Sketching the character of this newcomer among the national farm organizations, together with its pro- gram, MT. Howard, himself an Iowa l farmer, said: l The federation Is an alliance of country farm bureaus into state farm bureau federations and this in turn being federated into national or ganization as the American Farm Bureau Federation.
 "Its purpose is to work for the economic, social and educational ad- vancement of the farmers of the United States and for the general l welfare of the nation. It is proposed | to develop this work by means of | bureaus. | "Our bureau of agricultural eco- monies and statistics has already | been set up. It will make a study of costs of production of the principal | agricultural products and will direct and compile statistics in coopera- tion with the department of agricul- | ture, and the various state agen- cies. This vork will give much better insight into the supply and demand of agricultural products, with the thought that this will lead to nor efficient marketing.
 "Our bureau of transportation is 1 making study of necessary trans portation facilities, both by land and by water, for the marketing of our farm crops. The purpose of this
 bureau is to get at the real facts in the transportation problem and govern it's actions accordingly It purposes to establish rate and traf- fife files, which have never yet been
 built up for agricultural products
 "The bureau of trades relations will make a study of world supply
 and world demand, as we'll as of
 our national supply and demand.
 This information, coupled with the
 work of the farm economies and
 statistics bureau, will give up ac-
 curate worldwide knowledge upon which to base our plans.
 We are already undertaking i'm
 portant investigation of cooperation
 enterprise in marketing, which looks
 toward the establishment of a bureau
 of cooperation. This will make a
 study in this country and abroad,
 with the thought that special in-
 dustries interested in forming local
 or district cooperative organization
 may profit by the experience of
 other people in similar enterprises
 before starting their undertaking.
 ''The bureau of education which
 we have planned but which has not
 yet been started will present facts
 relative to the food supply and
 other necessities produced by agri-
 culture to the daily papers in order
 that there may be a more general
 understanding of agricultural produc-
 tion and closer relationship be-
 tween producer and consumer. This
 bureau will be a service to agri- cultural papers, presenting regional and national facts of particular inter- est to farm people and be of service to our own affiliated farm organiza- tions, state and county
 Our bureau of legislation, which is already in operation, is keeping a close record Of bills introduced in congress and is working for the in- troduction of legislation which we consider essential to the proper de-
 velopment of a national agricultural policy"
 SAYS CANADIANS NOT STRIKING CALGARY, Alta, Dec. 1 (by Asso-