Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-05-12
VOLUME LIV.
Cooperate!

Iron County who have not been able
to attend the meetings and who are
slow about taking up with the Farm
Club work which has been started
here, we are printing this so all may
get general idea of the Club plan.
There is no use to talk about the
need of cooperation. You all feel
this need and know something ought
to be done. If you read the news
papers you will see what is being
done, and to fall in line with the rest
is for your own good. Cooperation
is coming sooner or later in Iron
County and you might as well get in
on the ground floor and be reaping
the benefits from it right away.
The Missouri Farmers Association
is the big stick, 80 to speak, and the
official organ is "The Missouri Farm
err edited by VIM. Hirth at Columbia,
Mo. This Association is divided up
into County Farmers Associations
with their offices at the county seats.
The latter is divided into Farm Clubs.
Each school district has its club, its
object being to help the farmer social
~. The school house is used as q
meeting place and each elects presi-
dent and secretary to carry on its
business. Meetings are usually held
twice month and can can be made
very interesting by discussing the
business of the day, having debates
on current topics, short talks by the
members, pie suppers, etc. You and
your family can spend many an en-
joyable evening there. 1t is sort OF
get-tcgether affair.
The Association saves you money
on the supplies you buy. After there
are 300 or 400 members from clubs
around, supplies, such as flour, mill
feed, coal, binder twine, fertilizer,
ETC., may be ordered In car load lots
at wholesale prices. You place your
order with your secretary and the
supplies are delivered to the nearest
given shipping point.
Bear in mind that it is not the OBJ
ject of the Farm Clubs to handle sup
plies that will hurt the local mer-
chant in any way, for without the
merchant you would have no town.
When 1000 or 1900 members in
county have been secured product
exchange may be financed, also
live stock shipping association, th'
details of which may be secured BY
writing VIM. Hirth of Columbia, Mo.
or the Ironton Farm Club. The pro
duce exchange will take care of you
grain, potatoes, butter, eggs. seeds
ETC., and sell them for you at grea
deal more than you get under pres
ent conditions. The same is trut
with live stock which is shipped O.
certain dates by your own manage
and members receive what their stoc
brings at the stock yards, less thei
part of the shipping cost.
The dues are $3.50 year, s1.Oo 9
which goes to the Missouri Farmer
the official organ, 30 cents to the Mil
souri Farmers Association at May
view, Mo-, so cents is setaside for th
County Farmers Association until
is formed, and so cents goes towar
the expense OF your own club.
Here are few of the things tf
Association has already accomplish
ed-The Farm Clubs are already in
out of ia counties; they have b'
tween 400 and 800 produce exchange
In operation; eight cold storage plan
have been built; they have finance
about 20 Farm Club elevators, al
are already in control of about so p
cent of the grain movement in Mi
souri,; and over 30 successful lis
stock shipping associations are
operation.
It isn't possible to give all the d
tails here, but we have tried in ge
eral way to give you an idea of VIII
big thing this is for the Missor
farmer. Now if you are not satisfi
with the present method of payil
the other fellows price for your su
plies and accepting his price on 20
products, then get together In yo
little old red school house and sht
i you are not content with conditio
by forming Farm Club, as 1t will
the first step toward bettering then
When our boosterstalk Farm Olu
nine out OF every ten farmers will !
late the sad little tale of the once-u
on-a-time ssFarmers Alliance" VIII
fell thru and hurt many good ma
pride. But II You plsnt potatoes q
the crop turns out q failure, you do
quit planting potatoes, do you?
The men who have already ioir
fully believe in this as being {
thing, but they are handicapped
carrying on the good work until Il
get more members.
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