Smyrna times., 1920-11-24
FARM BUREAU SEES HOPE FOR
FARMERS IN ORGANIZATION
HEADS OF KENT COUNTY BU-
REAU RECEIVING SUGGESTIONS
Farmers Who are Discouraged are
Either Giving Notice They Will Quit
the Farm or Seeking a Remedy

Farmers Who are Discouraged are
Either Giving Notice They Will Quit
the Farm or Seeking a Remedy
Interest in developing of the pro-
gram of work for another year in the
Kent County Farm Bureau is becom- |
ing quite evident throughout the |
county, and as the time for the annual
meeting draws near, the officials OF |
| the organization are receiving many |
suggestions from the members as to
matters which they consider it the
function of the Farm Bureau to take
up. This is very healthy indication
of the growth of the organization and
the position which it has come to oc-
cupy in the minds of it's members. 1t
| is indeed fortunate fact that in Kent
| County a majority of We members OF
the Farm Bureau have the right con-
ception of the functions of the organ
ization. They realize that the Farm
Bureau is not a commercial organiza-
ton which can buy and sell goods
the market, and further that it must
never become such an organization.
The strength of the Farm Bureau lies
in It's educational and investigational
power, and this may be taken to in
clude the development and securing OF
information to promote the organiza-
tion of commercial bodies, the study
of local market conditions, and the
best means of disposing of the farm
produce of the community. In addi-
ton to these functions the Farm Bu
reau exists as prompt source of in
formation along all agricultural lines,
and its paid agents are in constant
touch with the most recent develop
ments.
These are dark days for the farmer,
with all classes of farm produce sell
ing on falling market, even though
it was produced with the highest pric-
ed fertilizers and labor that the coun-
try has ever known. 1t is a signifi-
cant fact that in a local paper last
week, there appeared no less than
eight advertisements of farm sales
each of which stated that the owner
H intended giving up the business o1
/ farming. This is just one of many l..
| dications that the farmer is getting
Il disgusted with present conditions. Al
II a result he is either going to seek r.
II remedy the conditions or qiut.
II An outstanding remedy for many O
II the conditions which are confronting
II the farmer, is organization-that 5
organization of the safe and san
III variety. This is no time for radical
II ism, but rather a time for sane an
n sober thought, and a constructive eco
N nomic policy. Just such an organiza
II tion is the Far mBureau, and the sue
III cess that it has had in the past is al
III most entirely due to a strict adherenc
II to the above named policies.
III Because these things are true it
III the general belief of those ihtereste
II IN the further development of tn
II Farm Bureau movement in Ker
HI County and in Delaware, that tn
III coming drive for new membership WI
III meet with ready response, and ths
III plans will soon be drafted, whereb
HI Kent County will head the movemel
llIl to establish State Farm Bureau FeC
Hi Grafton, which will in turn become
III unit OF the American Farm Bures
iii Federation, and bring to its membe
III the benefits of this great nation-w;'
nlI organization, whose constructive e
Hill forts have already won the confdenC
Hill not only of farmers, but of busine
HI heads, and educational leaders all ov
Hill the country.