The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-11-24
American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton Meets at Atlanta, Ca.,.
This Week.
WIDE PLANS FOR FUTURE
Will Review Years Work In Organ
ization, Marketing, Legislation,
Federal Aid, ETC..

federation Will accomplish IN 1Szl Will
be determined at Atlanta, Ca, this
week at the third annual meeting Of
the organization.
Within the past IL months this ma
tional organization of farmers has
completed its organization work in Al
states; organized state federation
headquarters; established national
headquarters in Chicago and built up
a legislative office in Washington, D..
C. The farm bureau, at its annual
meeting this year will review the past
years work, but of far more impOr.
lance will be the outline of the pro-
gram of work that the federation will
undertake during the next IL months,
prophesies an exchange. .-
In the review of the federation's
work in 1920 particular interest will
be attached to the report of Gray Sill
yer, who is in charge Of the Wash
ington office. The present congress
has to it's credit more agricultural
legislation than any other in a like
period since the first congress con-
evned in the Old State House at
Philadelphia, it is asserted. This ag-
ricultural legislation has been passed
largely at the insistence Of the farm
bureau. Among the more important
measures to which the farm bureau
points are:
THE packer and stockyards con.
troll measure.
2-Regulation of grain exchanges
and future trading in grain.
3-Extension of War Finance cor
poration's powers to lend $1,000 00.-
900 to farmers and cooperative asso
Citations. ~.
4-Increasing the rate of interest
on federal farm loan bonds from to
5h per cent.
5-Increasing by $4,000 the work
ing capital of the federal farm loan
system.
6-Limiting immigration to per
cent of the foreign born residents in
this country as recorded in the 1910
census.
- Elm Urgency tariff.
J. w. Coverdale. secretary OF the
federation, who has charge of the de-
partment of organization, will include
in his report, not only an account of
the organization Of declarations in Al
states, but also the reports of the eight
departments housed in the Chicago Of.
fee of the organization.
The report of the department of CO.
operative marketing will tell how the
commodity marketing idea has been
developed by the farm bureau, will tell
of the six commodity meetings held
during the year and Of the appoint
ment of expert committees to work on
the problem of marketing Of each Of
these commodities. It will tell in de-
tail the work of the farmers grain
marketing committee of II and its
plan which grew into the U. s. Grain
Growers, Inc. It will also tell of the
establishment, within the federation,
of divisions of wool marketing, dairy
marketing and grain marketing. 1t
will tell of the plans for the imme-
date creation of divisions of fruit
marketing, livestock marketing and
cotton marketing.
Outstanding in the report of the de-
partment of transportation will be the
story of its Intervention in the grain
rate case, which resulted in the re-
cent cut of SAC, LOOT, 900 in grain rates,
a reduction of $4,000. 900 in livestock
rates, and of its activity in securing a
rate reduction on all basic commodi.
ties.
There will be reports from the de.
partment of finance, the legal depart.
ment, the department Of research and
the department of information.
Henry c. Wallace, secretary of az.
riculture, promised to be in attend.
ance to address the meeting probably
on the third day. Senator William s.
Kenyon of Iowa, chairman Of the
Agrarian bloc in the United States
senate, will tell the delegates to the
annual meeting of "the agricultural
bloc and other blocs." In addition to
the prominent American visitors at
the meeting. delegates are being sent
from foreign farmer organizations.
The names of two delegates received
by Secretary ]. w. Coverdale were
A. Bretcher, secretary of the Central
Association of Swiss Milk Producers,
and Frederic Rohner, director of the
Central Association of Swiss Milk
Producing Corporations, who we're ap.
pointed by the Union Suisse des Pay
sans, which says in announcing their