Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-12-24

cluded in club work. Club work is
also good in preventing the boys and
girls from leaving the farm. Club
work makes better boys and girls
and incidentally better live stock ond
better homes.
Supt. P. E. Miller was called up
on to speak of the work of the farm
bureau. He said the county associa-
tion should articulate it's work with
the state and national federations.
The national federation is seeking to
improve the social, economic and ed
ucational advantages of the farm. 1t
will determine the cost of producing
farm crops as a basis for determin-
ing the fair price. 1t is making
study of transportation costs, rail-
road and ocean. 1t is going into this
big question Of supply and demand.
If the demand at home and abroad
were ascertained, then the bureau
would know how much should be
grown. The marketing problem is
being studied and especially all the
successful cooperative enterprises
operating over large field. 1t is
not too much to say that in the next
ten years, the farmer will retain
ownership of his wheat until it is
milled. The national federation will
also undertake to educate the public
regarding the status of the farmer
and will also look after legislation of
a national scope. The ban which is
being placed on Canadian wheat and
the ban on foreign wool are both the
direct result of the work of the fed
Grafton representatives in Washing
ton.
The state federation has adopted
Legislative program which includes
opening the exchanges to farmers
cooperative organizations, eliminat-
ing gambling in foodstuffs, reestab-
fishing the Minnesota grain grades,
a state system of rural credits, eff
cient reporting service, regulating
packing plants, uniform system of
accounting for cooperative associa-
tions, permitting state cooperative
organizations to affiliate, strengthen
the dockage law, amend the cold
storage law, strengthen the state de-
partment of agriculture, provide for
state supervision of the coal docks,
and establish a court of Cancellation
for farmers complaints.
The county program should provide
for the establishment of more CO.
operative enterprises in the county
so that in time the farmers can mar
ket every bushel of grain thru their
own elevators and every pound of
cream thru their own creameries.
County Agent Nash gave a verbal
report on the membership campaign.
The canvass resulted in $50 perm
anent members and there are still
some to be seen in the various town
ships and the number ought to reach
700. Besides this, there are 90 old
members and also SIS members among
the business men in Morris. Because
there had been some false reports on
what is being done with the extra
he stated that this money was used
first to pay the expenses of the can
vass and the balance goes to the state
federation for a reserve fund. The
Illinois federation had a reserve of
$335,O00 at the beginning of the
year, and set aside $4,000 for the
investigation of stock marketing,
$4,000 for grain marketing, and
$4,000 for investigating cheaper
methods of getting rock phosphate.
Minnesota will do something like that
with it's reserve fund. He stated
also that township organizer will
be here in January and township Or
ganiZations formed so that meetings
can be called and referendums taken
on questions that come up. Mr..
Nash also reported on how he had
spent his time the past year. AS
features Of the program for next year,
he suggested township organization,
boys and girls club work, better
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