Manchester Democrat., 1921-09-14
FARM BUREAU HAD BIG DAY At
STATE FAIR

/ Farm Bureau Day at the Stale. fair
was a regulation corn maker, which
means that it was sizzling hot Old
Sol centered his rays upon the big
| tent where the Federation meeting was
| held as if it had been a millionaire
corn field only one jump ahead Of
| Jack Frost that had to be ripened
before night Farm Bureau members
packed the tent to capacity and stood
around the outside, packed it as street
car-less Des Moines packs the buss-
es-which is the limit of things COM
parable. Collars wilted; the grease
fried out of the fat folk and the sweat
trickled over the bones of the skinny
ones. But it takes more than extreme
temperatures to get an Iowa Farm
er's goat, and they stayed on, hungry
for Federation gospel, stayed from ten
O'Clock in the morning until six
o'clock in the evening, with only a
short intermission at noon.
From nine to ten in the morning
the crowd was delightfully."- entertain
ed by the American Legion Band. For
this the Federation Is indebted to the
state fair management, Another en-
joyable feature was the singing By
the male quartette. Their selections
touched the popular chord. and they
were encored over and over again
at every appearance throughout the
day.
President c. w. Hunt made the prin-
cipal address of the forenoon session.
His talk dealt principally with what
has been accomplished by the Fedora
tion in it's short existence. He told
of legislative achievements, and made
it plain that in this one field the or
ganization has more than paid for
all the time and labor and money put
into it. He told OF work under way in
the line of marketing; of the action
of the Federation in appearing before
the Executive Council, with the re-
suit that the valuation of farm lands
for taxation has not been advanced
while every thing else has been boost
ed; he talked of transportation troub-
les, cost-of- reproduction work, blue sky
stuff, etc., etc, and in the end he
made strong plea for members to
be loyal to the organization and to
turn deaf ear to outside interests
striving to hamper the work and IN
fluence Of the Farm Bureau move
ment.
Mrs. Richardson of Mahaska County
talked on "Woman's Part in the Farm
Bureau" 1t was a practical address
from the standpoint Of the farm wo-
man, telling of the work of the wo-
mans branch Of the Farm Bureau,
home demonstration activities and
other lines of effort. She took q
crack at the cigaret industry and
was enthusiastically applauded by the |
big audience. She insists that the Farm
Bureau Federation machine, great and |
glorious tho it is, will never be able |
to function 100 per cent efficiently |
until the farm women are enlisted |
and doing their bit.
A number Of speakers appeared dur
ing the afternoon. President Howard
Of the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton devoted mis- time to discussion
Of national legislative problems, trans
portation entanglements and export
trade In connection with the first
topic he declared that Leadership Of
the u S. Senate has been moved from
to Iowa, and in dis
cussing the work Of the Agricultural
block insists that "The Farming in
.erests of the country owe much to
he aggressive stand made by these
men" In regard to the Esch- -Cummins
Jaw he said:
There is much in it that is good
md much that is Objectionable. We
NEW that at the time the bill was
lnder discussion few months ago. |