The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-02-03
HISTORY At
FARM CONVENTION
STATE FARM BUREAU Fedora
TON CLOSES IMPORTANT
BUSINESS HERE
MAKE STATEMENT Of THEIR POLICIES
Want Protective Tariff, Changes in
Income Tax Law n Vote
Against Nolan Bill.

The greatest and most important
business gathering of the farmers ever
held in South Dakota was held in this
city last week. While the average
it, the farmer delegates of the South
Dakota Farm Bureau Federation We're
making history in the agricultural
progress Of the state at their meet
ings at State college. The final bust
ness session Of the annual state con-
vention was held last Thursday and
the delegates left hat night and the
following day for their homes.
w. S. Hill Of Hanson county, was
elected president of the South Da-
kota Farm Bureau Federation by a
unanimous vote at the final session.
The following were elected as mem
bers of the board of directors: First
congressional district, O. S. Thomp-
son, Minnehaha county, two-year term,
and John Odland of Turner county,
one year. Second congressional dis
trict, II. X. Dubach, Clark county, two
year term, and w. II. Davis, Sphinx
county, n year. Third congressional
district, +. l.. Kelso, Fall River coun-
ty, twO-year term, and Edgar Wat
wood, Haakon county, n year. The
first board meeting was called by
President Hill last Monday.
The federation enlarged its program
of work to owe marketing of grain,
livestock, wool, seed and potatoes;
crop and livestock statistics; organiza-
ton work, executive department, leg
islation, legal investigations, news SER
vice and advertising, general Office
expense and emergency needs.
Special permanent committees will
be formed to represent each if the
five marketing divisions and others,
looking forward toward the organza-
ton of q marketing bureau and the
employment of necessary help. To
help meet the increased expense, the
convention raised the membership fee
due to the state office from $50, as
at present, to IS per member per year,
The South Dakota Farm Bureau
federation went on record as favoring
the French truth-in-fabric bill, a bill
to l~egalize collective bargaining by
farmers: a revision Of the tariff up
ward on farm products especially dur
ing the present adjustment period,
the enactment Of such emergency leg
i~slatiOn as will prevent the annihIla.
ton of the wool growing industry: the
enactment of a protective tariff re
stricting the importation Of foreign
sugar and its products; changes in the
national income tax law such that
the profit on land be taxed on the basis
of the number of years in which this
profit accrued, instead of taxing the
accumulated profit as though it had
been made in the year of sale.
The federation convention also eX-
pressed itself opposed to the Nolan
bill now before congress which pro
vides for a tax of one per cent on all
land values above $40, 900.
Mrs. r. N. Van Wrinkle Of Brown
county, presented what she believed
to be women's part in the farm bu-
reau. She said woman's first interest
in the welfare of the home and the
community, in fact that the men are
developing the farm bureau in order
to make the home what it should be.
Women are progressive, she asserted,
and are ready at all times to take
up new ideas for home and farm i'm
provement. The farm boys and girls
who are sent to college should be pro
vided with good homes in which to
live upon their return, else they will
be dissatisfied with farm life.