The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-11-18
MORROW FARM BUREAU
HELD ANNUAL MEETING
Executive Session Held and Work Pro-
gram for Year II OutIined.-COm-
mi.tee Heads Are Named.
BY L. A. HUNT. County Agent.

At 1890 Friday morning the Morrow
County Farm Bureau got down to bus
mess in its first annual meeting to work
out plans for the county program for
the ensuing year. After considerable
discussion it was decided to continue
the present program Of work, for prae-
tically the next year very little change
in their plans being made.
In the Department of Livestock I'm
provement it was decided to divide this.
making one dairy division and one beef
division, as it was felt this would serve
the entire county in good deal better
shape.
Under Rodent Control it is determined
that in view of the fact that the voters
of the county passed the Rodent Bill at
ne last election, which had been lnsti-
tuted by the Morrow County Farm Bu-
reau, that the Farm Bureau go on rec
ord as recommending to the County
Court that this fund so provided for the
use of squirrels and rabbits should be
used absolutely for the purchase Oh
strychnine and that any further ma
terial necessary should be provided Dy
the farmers themselves. The control
of the coyote will be given over to the
direction of the County Court in coop
Grafton with the County Wool Growers
Executive Committee.
The meeting then went into execu-
tive session to consider the nomination
Of officers for the ensuing year. The
report of these officers was read in the
afternoon meeting.
At 2 p. m. the meeting came to order
under the direction Of the County Agent
due to the absence of the president be-
cause of sickness.
F.. L. Ballard, State Leader for East
ern Oregon, made brief talk on the
purpose and objects of the County Farm
Bureau, which he characterizes as the
foundation stone Of both State and Ma
tional work, as without the definite pro-
gram of work for county organization
there could be no real State or National
Farm Bureau. He was followed by
Chester H. Gray State Farm Bureau
President of the state of Missouri, who
made what is considered one Of the
best addresses ever given in Heppner
on an agricultural topic in which he
placed before the people in a very care
full and business-like way the past
record of the National organization, the
things that they are trying to do at the
present time, and its plans for the fu-
ture. The Nolan Bill which would
have cost the farmers at least billion
dollars and which had good chance of
being passed and would have levied
tax against every acre of land in the
United States, was beaten through the
efforts of the National Farm Bureau in
which a vote was taken of the members
who voted 100000 to 1900 against it.
Another measure which the National
Farm Bureau succeeded in pruning TO
considerable degree was the rate of
the railroad commission. The Interstate
Commerce Commission would have
granted to the railroad a revenue of
hundred million dollars per year more
than they have now granted, II 1t had
not been for the activities of special
agent of the National Farm Bureau.
They also succeeded in getting lasge
part Of the increase in rates distributed
over the passenger service, as 55 per
cent of the freight hauled over the
country is farmer freight while prae'
Iically not over rs per cent of the pas
senger traffic is farmers. At the pres
ent time they are undertaking and with
good prospects Of success an amend
ment to the Federal Reserve Bill which
will give priority OF credit to agricul-
tural purposes, II this bill carries it
may become mandatory upon local
banks to issue credit to producers ahead
of other activities,
George Mansfield, the president Of the
temporary oregon Farm Bureau and
President of the Jackson County Farm
Bureau, gave brief address discussing
the problems and possibilities Of State
Farm Bureau organizations. Mr., Mans
field takes hold of his subject as typt-
cal westerner.
After these addresses, under the dis
cussion of whether or not Morrow coun-
ty should affiliate with the State Fed
Grafton the question was put and car
ried unanimously making Morrow the
fifth county Of the twelve necessary to
provide State organization. Morrow
County Farm Bureau also went on rec
ord as endorsing cooperation with the
Federal Department, and favoring a
$500 membership fee.
The officers elected for the ensuing
year were; President Oscar Keithley;
Secretary and Treasurer, E. NJ. Hulden;
Vice President Ed Reitmann; ProjecE
committeeman: Labor, Ed Rietman.,
Coo operative Marketing. r. w Turner
Wheat Varieties, S l. stephens; Rodent
Control. Jack Hynd, Good Roads, Adam
Knoblock; Alfalfa Varieties and Fer
tilizer, Matt Hughes; Improved Live
stock. Al Henriksen; Orchard Work
John wightman; Farm Records, Ed
Rugg,
OF the fourteen farm bureaus organ
zed in Morrow county twelve were rep
resented at this meeting. About seven
ty-nve farmers were In attendance.
Upon the authority OF President Gray
we are able to state that this Is one Of
the best Farm Bureau meetings held In
the state Of Oregon during his visit