The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-06-25
NATIONAL OFFICERS
Of FARM BUREAU To
VISIT GEORG | A
Effort Made to Hold Meeting in Fitz-
gerald.


of the National Farm Bureau to be in
Georgia for the first ten DAYS of Au-
gust, and will hold meetings in each
OF the agricultural school district. All
members of Ben Hill county Farm
Bureau and every one interested in
completing a county wide Bureau or
ganlzation IN this county should take
advantage of this opportunity of Sc
curing one OF these dates from these
distinguished Farm Bureau of
flcials to hold one Of their meetings in
this county.
II we want this meeting which will
embrace the entire second Agricul-
tural School District, let's give them
an invitation which will make them
want to come. This invitation should
be given through Prof Phil Camp
bell, director of extension work, Atll-
ems, Ga, and this should be done al
once. These two gentlemen have been
In Farm Bureau Work for several
years and are familiar with work in
most every state in the country and
VIII not only be able to show us where
It Will help us as farmers in pro-
duc1ng and marketing more and bet
ter farm products for more money
and less expense, but they will be
able to show us as consumers, how we
can buy under the present system
therefore there is not a citizen in the
county who should not be interested
IN the organization of a County Wide
Farm Bureau which will enable a
county agent or a home economic
agent TO render more efficient SER
vice. The county agent moven,ent
was started IN Georgia in 1907. prac-
tlcally every county in the state now
mas, or has had an agent. The sup
port or the agent has come mainly
from official sources, and it is now
belleved that the time is right to test
the interest of the citizens and to Sc
cure greater recognition and support
from them of the agents work. If thew
are interested in retaining the agent
service they certainly will seize the
opportunity of joining the Farm BIZ
reau and creating a department with
IN the county that will facilitate the
county agents work and assist hin, IN
putting over better and more com
plete agricultural program. Most oil
the Northern and Western states in
cooperation with the United States
department of Agriculture have adon-
ted the policy of not placing a coun-
ty agent IN county until Farm Rn-
reau Is organized with a paid mem
ibership of specified number of mem
bers. The state of New York. which
organized the first Arm Rureau
ADOPTED the policy of requiring three
lullued members at one dollar Der
nle1iloer per annum before a county
agent could be appointed. In most
cases OF prominence the Farm Bureau
FUNDS nave gone to support the conn
~ agent office, for the purpose of
employing stenographic service and
providing office and field equipment
also taking care of the necessary ex-
PenSes lnEonnection with the office Of
the secretary of the different com
nunity councils. If county agents
services alone are worth S2. 0OO =
year TO county, with a properly or
gained Farm Bureau it will be worth
ten times that amount.
IL may be rather hard for some RI
Iealize what an organization of this
kllld IS worth, and possibly thew will
never know of its value, until thew
nave need of assistance in market;no
their farm products, or in huvin99
their fertilizers and other farm s,,n
pnes at tair and equitable price. f
: /: = not how good a mans crop is
i ne can not dispose of it at prof
i ne Will not be satisfied with his
business operations, neither will he
De satisfied when he knows, because
o. MS individual buying in small ouan-
sltles that ne is having to paw too
4Igh price for his farm supplies
l. hrough the county, state and Ma
t1onal Bureau, our farm products will,
not only be advertised in our own
state but will be advertised in Draeti-
caily every state in the union Ike
wise our wants and needed sunnl;ess
may be known far and wide r. =
great many counties in the northern
ana western states through cooDera-
tion OF the County Farm Bureaus farn,
produce trucks are travelling regularly
over the counties, paying the farmers
cash Tor their produce at his door T.,
this way he has more time in nroduc-
ing greater yields, and thereby reca;v-
ing more. tor his labors. And from
ihe experience of this method of mar
h ~ the farmer is better satisfied
tnan wnen ne has to haul his produce
10 market and peddle it out on the
streets, or accept an unrenunerative
price County Farm Bureaus should
not be looked upon as merely finan-
Gal and material aids, but should be
thought OF as assisting in the develop
ing OF the social, educational and
spiritual interest of the people. and
especially that of the younger ones.
Cooperation means success. success
means satisfaction, satisfaction means
happiness and prosperity. All of these
necessary qualifications mean good
citizens, and the abolition of envy
hatred and malice. In a community
OF this kind of citizenry, YOU will
lind good schools, good churches and
good social entertainments for its
people. Among people of this kind
you will lind Others waiting to buy
homes. There is scarcely a commur.
ity SO. remote but what can, by CO.
operation, build and improve its con.
d1tions along these lines, until GU,
rural sections with nice homes. equip.
ped with telephones, and ali othe,
modern conveniences, such as electric
lights, electric churns and washins
machines. and cold stora oa rafr:nar,-