Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-24
FARMERS
CAMPA|G
IN FULTON COUNTY
All Farmers of The County
will Be Visited By A
Team of Twelve Farm
ers From Various Ohio
Counties In the Interest
of The Farm Buresu.

Counties In the Interest
of The Farm Bureau.
When, next Monday morning, the
m .nbership campaign of the Fulton !
County Farm Bureau opens, IL solic- |
itoss, all of them bona ide Ohio
farmers and each a member of his
Farm Bureau back home, VIII be in
the county, to visit all the farmers.
T ey will be under charge of E. F.
Johnson, Stryker, another farmer.
AL of these men are supplied by the
Ohfb Farm Bureau Federation,
which will conduct the campaign.
Each of the solicitors will be ac-
cornpanied by Fulton County farm
er, acting as driver. Before start
in out in the morning every driver
will sign up his own membership.
Tt drivers and other local men as
rfr'ing in the campaign will be under
charge of G. l.. Shreves, president OF
tho county bureau, who will act as
county chairman, r. A. Cave, county
agent, is giving assistance in details.
Tt secretary Is Harmon Gasche.
IL Is announced by Mr.. Cave that
the campa pn will start in the north
or If townships, Amboy, Royalton
Chesterfield and Gorham.- Every
f. in everv township will be
visited. II any are away from home
or III they will be seen IN a cleanup
effort to be made at the close OF the
campaign.
Memberships viii be taken for
three wears at $40 year. IL IS ex-
uia ned that half the fee Will remain
In Fulton County for the promotlon
a. rrch agricultural projects as the
county bureau may determine. Inc
other half will go to the ONO rarm
R,trrau Federation at Columbus
which pays the cost Of the campaign
ard cares for the state work, lnciud-
ing, L is announced, the employment
of 4 specialist who will work out tne
problems of dairymen and milk pro-
ducers. The Ohio Federation also
nevs 20 cents a year for each member
into the treasury Of the American
Farm Bure M Federation, for national
work. The American Federation
has n state membership of 45 fed
erations and an individual member
ehip of a million and half farmers
The membership Of the farm bu-
reau Is about 700. Conservatively
arrived at there are 5000 farmers n
the county. II is expected the cam.
pnion will result in a membership oi
2500.
That. according to J. H. Larinrore
rrhlir;tv Director for the Ohio Farm
Rnreau Federation, Is not an i'm
possibility. According to his state
nnent. such an increase would U
onlv A little above the average Of re
suits in other counties. The highes
averaUe per cent of Increase has beel
400. the lowest 40. According to MI
Iarimore. so Ohio counties eithe
have completed their. $40 campaign
or are now In campaign, and thre
new count es are opening every Mon
A. morning. Il Is expected ever,
Ohio county win be completed ?
NV 4 with a total membership ex
ceeding i25,00O. There are no" %
600 members in the counties tina
tave completed or are compie1n nI
thsir campaigns. Not a soIisar
CO ,ntv, he says, has lost member
ship by increasing its memoersnl
When. less than year ago., Tn
Ohio Farm Bureau was formally OF
gan;zed and started its campaign
an Ohio counties save two, Adam
ard Vitnon, had farm bureaus, near
au of them on the dollar-a-yes
basis. In the meantime Adams o
01nized a temporary bureau and
now in campaign for $40 membersh
ard Vinton has just organized
Temporary bureau and will put
its campaign a little later.
II Is pointed out that Changers a
endorsing the campaign and asslstl,
IN Il. This is IN accordance with &
nronouncement Of L. ]. Taber, sta
master. who also is a member OF e
executive committee of the. Oh
Farm Bureau Federation, to the 6
feet that there IS natural divisl,
Of work, no competition between {
organizations, and that eve
Granger should join the farm bure
and every farm bureau memn
should become a Granger.
Education, legislation and mark
inc. accord 'ng to Mr.. Larimore 9
tho three principal efforts of the Oh
and American Farm Bureau Eedef
tions. Great effort win be made
educate farmers as tn~<ost of pi
ducFon ard hstr button and +
benafts are not profteers, but IN
AfSthey seek is a just return TO Tn
investments and labor.
Such Legislation as Will nelp
bring about rural betterment wtn'
at the same time, imposing unJ'
burdens on others, will be sought
the state legislature and in Congrt
County and local elevator companl
I've stock shipping associations
r,k producers org arizstions VIII
formed and financed by the U
FEDERATION, IL is announced. -,
Huron and Darke counties VII
c,n their campaigns also next M
day.