Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
FARM BUREAU MAKES.
REPLY To ] ]. BROWN.

Editor The Journal: The attached
article is a resolution passed unani-
mously by the Georgia Farm Bureau
Federation, in answer to attacks
made upon the federation by Com
missioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown.
Please publish it in its entirety,
as 1t is a most comprehensive a.
swer to the attacks now being circu-
lated broadcast throughout the state
by Mr.. Brown.
Yours very truly.
r. A. KELLY, President,
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation.
Gainesville Ga, May IS, 1921.
Hon. J. J. Brown, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: We have read your let
ter to Mr.. Guy Clopton, of Gaines
Vile, one of your oil inspectors, with
very much interest. We think that
the farmers of the state have about
reached the point where they do not
care to hear from you further. This
organization. the Hall County Farm
Bureau. does not propose to lower its
standing by getting into a contro--
versy with a politician like you and
except for the fact that your letter
was written for the express purpose
we would not reply. However, we
cannot allow the letter to go unan-
swered.
The farmers of Georgia remember
you as the man who urged them to
reduce their fertilizers in 1919. They
did as you recommended and lost
millions of dollars on account of a
short cotton crop.
The farmers of Georgia remember
you as the man who urged them TO
hold their cotton last fall when 1t
was selling at from rs to 80 cents per
pound. They did as you recommend
ed and they lost from fifty to one
hundred million dollars by taking
your advice.
The farmers of Georgia remember
Join the American Cotton associa-
tion. They did so, in large numbers:
but before the organization could
start functioning you had dropped 1t
and had hoped on another horse,
notwithstanding the fact that thou
sands of dollars in money had been
secured and this money has been
spent to no avail so far as the farm
erS are concerned.
Bureau of Markets
The farmers of Georgia remember
you as the man who recommended
that a state bureau of markets be es-
tablished They remember that the
legislature has for the past several
years made large appropriations Tor
this bureau of markets. They re-
member that this bureau of markets
has only been a political tool in your
hands and that it has not rendered
the dirt farmers OF the state any
good whatever, as far as we know.
Not one farmer in a hundred knows
there is such an organization. Th1S
bureau is costing the state over nifty
thousand dollars per year. The farm
ers of Georgia are opposed to this APP
preparation.
The farmers of Georgia remember
that you rode into office on an econo-
ny-efficiency platform. They realize
that you have not kept this promise.
They realize that your appo1ntees as
oil inspectors are drawing from the
state about two hundred thousand
dollars annually. If this work can
be done for cne-fifth the cost they
think it would be good business to
reduce the number of these lnspec-
tors. You are opposed to this. why!
The farmers of Georgia remember
you as the man whom they elected,
so that certain evils which existed
in the state department of agricul-
ture might be remedied. They are
aware of the fact that the state de-
partment of agriculture at present is
at its lowest ebb in a generation so
far as rendering real service to the
dirt farmers of the state are con-
cerned.
The farmers of Georgia know you
now as the man who is backing the
so-called Sapiro cotton marketing
plan in Georgia. They are not yet
ready to JOIN Such organization as
you will find out shortly. If the
plan was all that could be expected
they are opposed to it as long as it is
to be run by you and your political
cohorts.
Your letter to Mr.. Clopton is so full
of inaccuracies and deliberate lies
that we will not attempt to answer
all of them. You are on the defense,
the farm bureau is not, and until you
explain satisfactorily to the farmers