The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-07
TO RUSH FARMERS
 SALE ORGANIZATION LIKE CALIFORNIA PLAN
H. F. kapp, Appointed National Or. ganizer, to Start Work in Ar
 kansas First.

Little Rock, Feb 7.-The appoint
 ment of Harry f. kapp, district
 farm agent of southwest Arkansas,
 as national organizer of the Amer
 ican Farm Bureau Federation for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississ-
 ippi and proably Oklahoma, has been
 announced by M T. Payne, director
 of the agricultural extension division,
 University of Arkansas. Mir. Kaop
 has been granted an indefinite leave of absence from the extension service, effective at an early date.
 Mir. Kapp received his appoint
 ment as organizer of the farm bu- reau direct from national headquarters of the American Farm Bureau Feder- ation. He has been informed by J. w. Coverdale, national secretary of the national federation, that Arkan- sas shall be given first attention in organization in the list of states men tioned above.
 Arkansas now has II organized county farm bureaus and 1t is Mr. Kapp's intention to push the work of organization at once with view to securing a state bureau just as soon as a few more counties have perfected their organizations.
 States now affiliated with the American Farm Bureau Federation total 32 and 13 others are in the | process of organization and will ask 1 for membership soon. More than l. 500,000 American farmers are enroll ed in the national organization and Mr. Kapp is confident that Arkan- sas will quickly be in line with her sister states.
 The plan of the farm bureau en- braces every phase of cooperative | of all farm products by the farmers themselves. The whole plan is based on the crop contract such as is now being used in Texas and Oklahoma. The farm bureau plan means the erection of warehouses, the | establishment of concentration points and a central marketing system adapt | ed from the California plan to meet the needs of cotton and other farm products grown in Arkansas.
 Mir. Kapp has just returned from Dallas, Tex, where he attended a of the Texas Farm Bureau. Aaron Sapiro, the noted attorney for the California Fruit Growers Asso- citation, was present to address the Texas bureau and advise them on the formation of a marketing association. MT. Sapiro has lent great assistance to the American Farm Bureau Fedora tion in the past year by helping them in the formation of plans. When he spoke to the Texas farm bureau he said that cotton marketing associa- tion must be organized on a commodi i farmers only. He stated that the 1 amount of cotton sold by the associa- tion should be big enough to be a l factor in the world market and that ! the growers and the association should be bound together with con- tract that would stand in any court.
 Other members and specialists of the Arkansas agricultural extension division, who were attending a four states convention in Dallas were pres ent to hear Mir. Sapiro and to at tend some of the meetings of the Texas Farm Bureau. Although the service has been aiding the | farmers in forming their associations they received many valuable sugges- tions that will enable them to render greater service in the next few months as the farm bureau program is furth- CT advanced.