The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-01-16
JOINT MEETING
OF The Ohio County Fiscal Court
And The Ohio County
Farm Bureau

At the joint meeting, held on Jan,
eth, 1920, in the Court Room at
Hartford, the Fiscal Court and the
Farm Bureau members and their
friends, had the opportunity of hear
ing Mr.. B. c. Nelson, the District
Agent for this. and the surrounding
counties, speak on the Work of the
Farm Bureaus and the County
Agents.
Mr.. Nelson was placed by the Gov
eminent as District Agent at the start
of the war, having been in the Quar-
termaster's Dept. of the Army at the
outbreak of hostilities; and being a
farmer himself, his double experience
was invaluable to the State in its en-
deavor to increase agricultural pro-
duction. Furthermore as Mr.. Nelson
has made twenty-five Farm Bureau
speeches in the last month, and has
been in intimate touch with this
movement ever since its inception in
this State, and as practically every
County in his district has a Farm
Bureau organized, there is not bet
ter informed man on this subject
south OF the Ohio river. That his
hearers appreciated this fact was evil
dent by the applause that greeted his
efforts.
The Bureau was called to order
about IL o'clock by the temporary
president, Mr.. E. G.. Austin, of Bea-
yer Dam, and,after the usual business
preliminaries, the election of per-
manent officers for the organization
was completed, The result was as
follows:
President-C. o. Keown, Hartford.
ce-President,-W H. Rhoads,
Goshen. (Hartford p o.
y-Treas-Watt Taylor, Center
town.
Credentials were prepared and Mr..
Watt Taylor elected to act as the Of
icial Bureau representative, to attend
the Farm Bureau Federation meeting
at Louisville on Feb. 1918.
A motion was made and passed to
the effect that the Fiscal Court be re-
quested to appropriate the necessary
sum to meet the sum furnished by the
Extension Division of the University
of Kentucky and the United States
Department of Agriculture. for salary
of the County Agent, and that the
present Agent be retained for another
year.
A resolution was presented and
adopted, which follows verbatim;
eve the Farmers of Ohio county,
in convention assembled, hereby wish
to express our sincere thanks and
appreciation to the most excellent
Ladies of Hartford and vicinity for
the splendid dinner so bountifully
prepared and generously served in
keeping with true Kentucky Hospi-
tally.
Coming at this time of scarce SUI
gar, and the high cost of living, it was
like a fertile, blooming oasis in a
barren desert, and its remembrance
shall ever be green spot in our
memory"
A most significant indication of the
attitude of the conservative farmers
of this county toward this organiza-
ton was the enrolment of members
of the Fiscal Court. representative
farmers of influence from practically
every district and the fact that the
Farm Bureau, while not yet one
monthSold in this County, has to its
credit cash and signed pledges to the
amount of over $4,000.
The thanks and good portion of
the credit for the success of the Big
Dinner is directly due to those mer-
chants and friends whose generosity
made possible the purchase of such
supplies as were not donated, their
cooperation will not be forgotten.
Remember the Farm Bureau slo-
gan, 1.-THE cost of Production plus a
reasonable Profit" and keep in mind
the war cry of the organization
WATCH US GROW!