Arizona republican., 1921-06-29
FARM BUREAU
 OF GILBERT
 CELEBRATES

One or the most enjoyable and profitable catherings ever held In the Gilbert district was staged Saturday. June zs. when the Gilbert Farm Bu- reau held an ali-day picnic on the school grounds With an attendance close on 10 three hundred and fifty. the day was full to overf1owing with good things. both along the line Of
 good talks from various Farm Bu-
 reau men and representatives of the. University of Arizona and along the
 line of a good feed served at the noon hour.
 J- F. Robinson. one Of the prors- nent farmers of the soufhside spoke
 on cooperative marketing. He con-
 demned unqualifiedly the too frs- ouent practice of farmers who have
 pooled their produce allowing Tempting offer to cause them 10
 break their agreements Fred Talf. president Of the Maricopa County
 Farm Bureau. told Of the benefits Of
 the organization Since it began work
 in April He mentioned especially the saving in the purchase price Of grain sacks. the increase in the price Of hay. and athe advantages Of the grain pool. which. to date. has saved
 the grain farmers of the county at
 least 90 cents per hundred on their
 wheat He stated that tt Is too hiK
 a Job for the Farm Bureau to sf-
 tempt to market all farm produce.
 but that Its function Is fo develop
 marketing associations. which. when
 functionfnE. should be made inde- pendent of fhe Farm Bureau
 Miss Alice " Joyce. home demon
 sfration agent leader for Arizona. made a brief address in which she
 asked for the recognition of wonen,s work in the Farm Bureau Miss Joyce made stirring appeal to have
 business management of farm af- fairs
 R- V. Davis. extension tairyr1ar ' of the University Of Arizona. made q
 talk on the dairy situation He pointed out some Of the advantaKel a Of dalryinE and some of the more un- . | pleasant things. with remedies foi their correction as well Davis stated that not everybody should be en. gagged in dairyinE. but those whos' inclinatious are that way shoui, E dairy well He pointed out the piac' 2 of dairyinx in diversified farming
 Later in the day Davis conducted demonstration on judging dairy COWS V He pointed out the physical ch.rnc z terisfics which indicate high produc ton tn dairy cows
 - C. s. Brown. the genial presidcr - of the State Farm Bureau Fedora 2 ton. gave a s6mewhat humorous t.ll y on what the state and national or
 ganixafions are doing He stated ths one reason farmers have not bee
 making rel<onabie profits from fhei 'i investments is because they hzv - never asked for reasonable prcfec A ton compared with other industri<l Browns talk was optimistic. and CT e pressed confidence that a safe. con 70 servative and sane program on rh
 part Of organized agriculture wouf
 Eain such a degree Of confidence q the Farm Bureau that other indus o tries would begin soon to appreciat the imperative need of the whoi v country to keep agriculture xlways q prosperous condition
 President Holladsy cf fhe CIrber Farm Bureau gave a report on a tri v to the upper Cha valley. fn which h lA recountef that the farmers there ar cooperating well with the Msricop 70 county farmers in handling hay Q 'e the most efficient lines poxxlbie H n stated that the imperative need ro rain must soon be realized or matter e would he extremely serious for Ora 'o ham county farmers.
 A baseball game in the nftr-noo
 between teams from Gilbert sn H Chandler completed the days festlvl le ties