The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-09-22
BUREAU MIEETIN
WELL ATTENDED
Princeton Farm Bureau Unit Holds
Interesting Meeting; About
20 Members Present. 2s ME-
POTATO CROP DISCUSSED
Vote to Give Page Township 20 Per
Cent of Premium Awarded to
Princeton Unit at Fair. >,.z @ q.

The Princeton farm bureau unit held
it's monthly meeting last evening at z
the Jaenicke school house, approx
mately seventy members were present.
1t was unquestionably the liveliest and
most interesting meeting the Prince
ton unit has ever held. -. =.
The director and secretary brought
up a few business matters on which
action was taken. Oscar Stark, the
secretary, was chosen to fill the treas
urer's office also. A vote of thanks
was extended to the committee that
had charge of the township ex-
hibit at the fair. After a short dis
cussion, it was decided by the unani-
NOUS vote of the members present to
give Page township 20 per cent Of the
premium money awarded by the fair
association as first prize to the
Princeton unit. Page certainly had a
splendid display at the fair and the
exhibits had been brought here at con-
siderable trouble and expense. We
believe every fair visitor who viewed
the township exhibits felt that Page
was entitled to some award and the
members of the Princeton unit are
certainly to be commended for their
neighborly, generous action.
Some community singing followed
the business session. The members
then turned their attention to the
main feature of the evening, discus
sion Of the years potato crop and the
market prospects. The director Of
the unit, VIM. Gebert, led this discus
sion. AS is we'll known, Mr.. &C.
bert has the reputation Of being able
to size up the potato situation quite
accurately and his neighbors know he
frequently disposes of his crop at the
right time. The one point Mr.. &C.
bert emphasized was that every far
mer should keep informed as to the
probable yield throughout the coun-
try. The United States department. of
agriculture each month issues a crop
report. and it behooves every potato
grower to study this report. When
the crop is unusually large, the far
mer does not Of course have much
prospect of getting high price. Ac-
cording to the September report the
total crop in the United States is
estimated at 323,OO0,000 bushels This
is about 100000 or 75,0o0,o00 BUSH
els below normal yield. If good
weather continues for another two
weeks, the yield may be increased
more than is estimated at the present
time. 1t would be we'll for every far
mer to watch for the October crop re-
port and the same can be obtained
by writing to the department of agri-
culture at Washington If the crop
is small, every potato grower will
certainly be watching the markets
closely and using all the business
Judgment he has, to select the right
time for marketing his crop. OF
course, many farmers will be COM
PEELED to market portion of their
crop very soon in order to obtain
some ready money.
Refreshments were served and the
gathering adjourned after arrange
ments had been made for the next
meeting. This will be held on the
evening of October II at the home Of
Mrs. Peter Madison. The refresh
ment committee appointed for that
meeting consists of Mrs. N. Lundblad.
Mrs. Peter Mattson and Mrs. Clar-
ence Sanford.