Milford chronicle., 1920-12-10
SUSSEX FARMERS
MEET AT GEORGETOWN
THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF SUSSEX
COUNTY FARM BUREAU WAS HELD
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2.
MANY PROJECTS DISCUSSED
DISCUSSION OF MANY SUBJECTS FARM
ERS ARE INTERESTED IN BRINGS
OUT VALUABLE POINTS.

have a far reaching influence upon
the economic agricultural conditions
in Delaware. was the third annual
meeting held Thursday, December z,
AT the Court House in Georgetown, OF
the Sussex County Farm Bureau.
Dean and Director c. A. McCue OF
the School of Agriculture, Delaware
College, Mr.. NJ. o. Pence, State county
AGENT Leader; Mr.. Theodore I. Mar
tin. State Boys and Girls Club Agent;
Miss Kathryn Woods, newly appoint
ed Home Demonstration Agent for the
State at large; Mr.. NJ. c. Vaughn,
County Agent, and Miss Dorothy En-
erson. Boys and Girls Club Agent,
met with the Executive Committee,
and a good representative crowd
(men and women) of Sussex county
Farm Bureau members, at morning
and afternoon sessions.
The morning session was taken up
with committee meetings and reports
of this years Farm Bureau activities.
Miss Dorothy Emerson, County CLUB
Agent, reported that thirty-two (S2)
Bows and Girls Clubs had been or
ganized this year in Sussex county,
and the exhibit of canned fruits, gar
ments, ETC., showed that these clubs
had been doing excellent work.
Mr.. NJ. c. Vaughn, county agent, dis
cussed the following Farm Bureau
projects, which have been very popu-
lar with the farmers and the further
ance of which has greatly Denehteo
them: Sweet Potato Seed Treatment;
Hog Cholera; Better Plant ProJect'
Poultry Culling; Soy Beans; SOIL reT-
tility; Cooperative Marketing; VIII
Resistant Tomato Seed; Corn Shows;
Permanent Pasture; Clover SEED Har-
vester Demonstration; Cow Testing;
Drainage. The recommendations of
Mr.. Vaughn, that several of these pro-
jects be continued during the ensu-
ing year, was acted on favoraDly Dy
the program of work committee.
AT the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion, the recommendations oHereu py
the various committees were accept
ed and voted upon by the Farm Bu-
reau members.
Mr.. Thos. N. Rawlins, of Seaford,
chairman of the Expense Budget Com
mittee, recommended that the Farm
Bureau budget for the coming year be
increased to sixteen hundred ($l6OW
dollars, in order to more adequately
provide for the growing needs OF the
Farm Bureau.
Albert NJ. Tarr, of Seaford, chair
man of the membership committee,
recommended that the Farm Bureau
Membership fee be five dollars per
family-to include children between
the ages of ten and twenty-one years.
Three dollars of this fee will be pair
TO the State and National Farm Bu-
will be retained by the County Bu-
reau.
Mr.. John Ponder, chairman of Pro-
gram of Work Committee, recon-
mended that the projects, which were
discussed by County Agent, NJ. c.
Vaughn at the morning session, be
continued, with an additional project,
viz: Peanut Project, to be carried out
on a small scale.
The Nominating Committee, thru
its chairman, Mr.. Milo Farber, of Mil
ford. named the following officers and
Executive Committee for the year
1921:
President, Robet. J. Allen, Seaford; I
Vice President, Andrew Marvel, (
GEORGETOWN; Secretary and Treasur-
er. John c. Green, Georgetown.
Executive Committee. D. Thomp- !
son. Lewes; John Ponder, Milton; e. I
]. Lewis. Milford; Norval Pepper, Sea /
ford; G.. E. Bunting, Selbyville; V. Il. (
Allen. Seaford; r. G.. Houston, George (
town; w. o. Warrington, Harbeson; 7
Mrs. C. A. Colell, Milford; Mrs. I. Z. .
Donovan, Lewes; Mrs. John A. JONES'
Georgetown; Mrs. Ella c. Emery sea
ford: Mrs. H. NJ Waller, Delmar; Mrs.
NJ Strong T.eWeS
The question of forming a State
Farm Bureau Federation was discuss
ed by Mr.. w. V. Cosden, of Dover,
nresident of the Kent County Farm
Bureau. Mr.. Cosden. in a very earnest
manner. stressed the necessity of the
three counties of this State forming
a State Federation, and stated that
both New Castle and Kent County
Farm Bureaus had already decided to
federate.
Mr. Brooks L. Ross, of Seaford,
president of the Seaford Produce
Growers Association, Inc, addressed
tbe meeting, and in a very forclble
manner showed the need of strong
national farmers organization. Mr.
Ross told of his recent trips cut West,
where he attended two meetings OF
the National Farm Bureau Federation,
and in part said:
eve people here in the Eastern
States are organized into many KINDS
of farm organizations, but the West
ern States are doing things under one
strong organization-The Farm Bu-
reau We must federate IN or
der to compete with the organized IN
dustries of our country, and the Ma
tional Farm Bureau Federation is the t,
thru which all farm or ;
carnations can work together. :
Mr.. Ross also spoke of the Capper- :
Volstead Bill and the Nolan Bill, now !;
pending before Congress, both of
which will greatly handicap the farm
er and his business and Will add :
an additional burden upon real es-
tate. i
The climax of the meeting was
reached when the retiring Farm Bu-
reau President, Col. Robt. G. Houston,
of Georgetown, expressed his views OF = =
he National Farm Bureau Federation.
rol Houston stated that forty-two 3
states had already joined the National u
Federation, and that Delaware might
as we'll be out of the Union, as not to
mite with the farmers strongest ma
.ional organization. One OF his strong- -
sst noints in favor of National Farm {, q
Rureau Federation was: During the =
.ecent war. when the Government ask '
ad the farmers what it cost TO pro-
1uce a bushel of wheat, there was :
M one organization strong enough 10 a a
.enresent the farmer before Congress, -
,ence the price was set at two dollars Il
md twenty cents ($2.20) per bushel,
which in most cases proved to he less