The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1920-03-18
NOTES OF THE
FARM BUREAU
During March and April a Total Of
Fourteen Meetings Will Be
Held in County
FARMERS MUST ASSIST AGENT
Their Help is Needed in Planning
Work for Coming Year

HameS Oh mezl WHO are Cne community
chairmen for the various communities
fourteen in alD in this county. Dur
ing the months of March and April
we will hold meeting at some point
in each of these communities. The
several community chairmen will each
invite about eight or ten representa-
tive men and women Of his particular
community. Then this group will dis
cuss a program of work for the fu-
ture for that particular community.
Next they will ask the county agent
and club leader to help carry out this
work.
This presents the proposition in
such way that the lines Of work ia
be undertaken come from the farmers
directly interested. It refutes, the
charge that some people still hold
that the county agent 'ttells the
farmers how to farm" In the main
this is not the duty Of the county
agent. In fact the titles county agent,
farm advisor and better farming
agent are all to some extent mis-
nomers. The title if it at all refers
to the work Of the county agent
should be county farm bureau secre-
tary. At least that suggests the
county agents real work. And chat
means that he endeavors to get farm
ers to do things in groups that they
positively cannot do as individuals.
This is the reason for our farm bn-
reau community meetings. There
fore if your community chairman in
yites you he does so for definite
reason, because he thinks you are able
to help plan the work, and you should
not disappoint him.
A vast amount of trouble in this
world is caused by misunderstanding.
misunderstanding is largely the re-
suit Of misinformation. Most people
get their information through what
they see, hear or read.
Mr.. Man in the city sees great
many shings. He sees bread at II
cents a loaf lit used to be 10 cents J
He sees spuds in the grocery at s4.00
a bushel. He sees meats at IS cents
pound He drinks milk and it coat,
him is cents q quart, and he also sees
picture in a paper Of one COW
which has produced 8,407 pounds OF
milk in a year and that means 1852
quarts of milk and he figures that
up at Is cents per and then he sees
"red."
Then he hears about the number OF
autos and Fords farmers own and how
much bank stock is in the hands Of
the farmers and q lot of other things
and then he reads about the wave Of
unrest which is sweeping the field Of
agriculture, and he reads how bunch
Of farmers have gotten together and
are going to raise the price Of milk OF
of wheat and thereby place beyond his
reach the only food he has left; then
he reads how the farmer 10 the II and
L combination Of the high cost Of
living, and he reads, and he reads
and then he talks.
The thing left for the farmer to do
and especially the Farm Bureau is to
see that these people in the city really
get an idea as to the real facts in
the case. The difference between out
standing yields and general averages
in production under real farm con-
ditions are quite different. It may be
that we as farmers see these isolated
cases in the same way and draw
wrong conclusions. What we all want
is more facts based on general aver
ages and these are even sometimes
misleading.