Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-09-29
THE FARM BUREAU
BOOSTS FARMERS
Aim and Purpose Of Organization is to
Help Solve the Farmers
Problems.

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farm products, improved methods Of
farming, and other means
No Demands No Service
The Farm Bureau is like "a horse
harnessed and ready for work. All
that is required is for the local farmer
to hitch the Farm Bureau to his Job,
whether it be marketing problem, soil,
crop or livestock problem. g."
Farm Bureau Strongest Organization
In Nation of Farmers for Farmers
Minnesota together with twenty
eight of the other leading states have
already joined the National Federation
of Farm Bureaus. The objects of the
State Federation are generally to Sc
cure for those engaged in agriculture
within the state the same as the Amer
lean Federation expects=to obtain for
the farmers Of the nation. In the first
place, lit will attempt hay out pro-
gram that eventually will make farm
ing prosperous. arming is not a phil
anthropy: The farmer lis like every
other man. He Isl in business for
profit :; he has little conception of an
altruistic duty to work hard in order
to feed thesshirking industrials ny> to
feed Ky, a.issssaen~a E.aia;;!y L. aho,l:iKa
miles away. So we cannot depend upon
patriotic enthusiasm to go very far.
Therefore, unless this problem is solved
to the profit of the farmer, production
will fall to the point of nominal output.
The farmer will always feed his own
household we'll; he is self-sufticient and
independent and if he has no outlook
for surplus profit, he will not plan his
work to produce a surplus. This is
fundamental.
Fundamentally the Farm Bureau
must, be to agriculture what the Cham
Der. OF Commerce is to the business
world and in state like ours where
farming is the principal business of the
community the farmers should take the
lead. The success Of the Farm Bureau
movement lies largely in the one great
truth that eXemplifes their belief,
namely, mo man liveth to himself and
no man dieth to himself 1t is an Or
ganlzation for square deal and is
working with well-tried principles
founded neither in haste nor anger but
upon ripe experience. BY sober, truth
full and Independent effort the Farm
Bureau FederatiOns have already built
program for constructive work. Its
vision of the future is aided and guided
by the observations of the past It has
no issue or claim, no accute power to
further its ends. It seeks no special
privileges nor does it believe in grant
ing any. It believes in and adheres to
the Sterling Truth.
The Farm R,1roon occor+c that Tho
farmer is entitled to a Just profit on
the cost of production on all products
with these items properly accounted
for, with due consideration of the
hazardous risks he encounters, and
with wage allowance for his own
labor and ability commensurate to that
received in other occupations.
The Farm Bureau movement has
passed far beyond the experimental
state. Every state in the union has or
CARNATIONS built on the Farm Bureau
plan and practically everyone has a
State Federation thereof. The Farm
Bureaus message to the people is to
give them the truth and no better
remedy for the existing evils than to
expose the same by stating the truth
oOAAOuAuAu6 SuCu evil. 1ucIc IL llO
other organization that can speak for
agriculture as well as the Farm Bureau
Federation. Everyone interested in or
dependent upon agriculture is cordially
invited to join the Farm Bureau in the
county where he or she resides.
Under the Minnesota Farm Bureau
Federation the Farm Bureaus of the
state by means of their common inter
ests are united in, the advancement of
agriculture, with definite program at
all times in mind to make it profitable,
wholesome and satisfactory.
July 22nd-23rd the Farm Bureau
Federation attended the big grain and
livestock marketing conference held at
Chicago. Conference was called by
American Farm Bureau Federation and
all State Federations and heads of
State Marketing Cooperative Organi-
cations were represented. A committee
Of II was appointed by A. F. B. F.,
and will soon be at work on a definite
marketing plan which is believed will
enable all producers to sell direct to
the consumer on plan which will give,