The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-10-31
NOVEMBER I DATE
FOR FARM BUREAU
$40 MEMBE ERSH|P
Drive In Bennington County
Continues to Thanksgiving
c. ]. COOPER IN CAMPAIGN
Illinois Dairy Farmer to Lead
Team Which will Tour
Entire County

| To the farmers OF Bennington Coun
ty:-The Bennington County Farm
Bureau association is to put on, be
ginning November and lasting until
Thanksgiving, drive for membership
on the $40 family basis. This MARKS
the opening Of new epoch in the farm
bureau movement. We have always
been a strictly business organization
the business Of bettering rural conGi.
tions, both in home, school and farm,
But with added funds we will be able
to go into much larger fields and Sc
cure greater results. We will pay
especial attention this coming year
to cooperative marketing, the de-
velopment of better markets for what
we have instead of increasing produc-
tion for which there is no outlet
We have secured c. J. Cooper a
dairy farmer from Illinois, to manage
our campaign and he will conduct
meetings throughout the county,
These meetings will be well adyer'
tised and every farmer should attend.
1t is a duty every farmer owes him.
self and his family to keep posted on
what the Farm Bureau Is doing and
what it plans to do. These meetings
are for the farm family as well. IT Is
real treat to hear Mr. Cooper pre-
sent these facts in his frank, honest,
hesrtto-heart talk
1t viii be of interest TO Bennington
county people to know that this fear.
less champion of the farmers, from IL
linois, C. J. Cooper, comes from Ben
nington county stock, his grandfather
going out from our county as
pioneer to the plains in those days of
hardship that tested the souls OF men.
Mr.. Cooper anticipates much pleas
ure in meeting our people.
One Of the outstanding features of
this membership drive is the unani-
NOUS opinion OF all farmers that our
great hope OF improving our con-
ditions lies in cooperation. We no
longer hear the old wall farmers
won't stick together instead we
hear Eve must all stand together
In New Hampshire last week, out
of 4S6 calls made, 406 farm families
Joined the Farm Bureau. Yesterday
in Weathersheld called on 10 famil-
les and signed up 13 memberships,
this is to show something OF the inter
est farm families are taking in this
move.
It may interest some to know how
the work is conducted at the meet
ings after Mr. Cooper's talk. yolm'
teers are called upon to take The So
licitors out to meet the farmers
These meetings are usually held two
or three days ahead OF the day set for
the township drive On the morning
of the drive, the solicitors are carried
out to the appointed place of meeting
where they usually find the drivers
waiting for them. The drivers draw
by lot for their solicitor and they
start out. II the farmers have attend.
ed the meeting the solicitors can cali
on 90 or 25 men day, but if they
have to explain the matters i'll de-
tail very much less progress can DC
made. We are always glad TO make
the work Of the Farm Bureau clear
to everyone, but YOU will readily see
how much less expensive 1t is IN time
and money when all can hear Mr'
Cooper talk.
II is our purpose to call on every
farmer in the township in one day
but it is sometimes necessary to 80
back later to see those who were
missed for lack of time or other rea,
sons Windsor county is using SIX
solicitors and probably Bennington
county will have the same number,
We are asking that all the farmers
1f Bennington county give tins mater
their closest attention. Other coun-
les in the state put over the $lOl
membership with flying colors, gener'
ally doubling their previous number
md bennington county must be mol
exception to the rule. The organiza'
ion of agriculture bespeaks much for
IS in the future and we must prepare
.oday.
James A. Leach,
pragidpnt