St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1921-12-17
Change in Agricultural Con-
ditions Urges Farmers
of Parish to Act
MARKETING FIRST
CONSIDERATION
Schedules of Meetings. to
Take Place Throughout
. St. Tammany Parish

Conditions have so changed that
the farmers all over the United
States are banding together to save
themselves from the alarming situa-
ton that is gradually approaching.
Every business in the country s
working for readjustment of things
that will bring more certain and
more prosperous conditions. We OF
st. Tammany must not neglect our
interests. II we do, we will suffer
most narrowing consequences.
Marketing is one of the greater
problems that confronts the farmer.
The Farm Bureau is working to this
end, but nothing can be done Wlth-
out organization. The farmers OF
St. Tammany must cooperate.
The following program has been
laid out for the campaign here, ani
lit is seriously urged that the meet
ings be attended:
Farmers, Attention.
Campaign for membership in local
Community and Parish Farm Blu
reaus will be conducted in St. Tam
manv parish as below from Decem-
ber 10 to December %, 1921:
| Monday, Dec. 19-Pilgrim Rest
school, at 2 p. NJ; Folsom Commun1-
ty House, p. m. !.
Tuesday, Dec 20-Waldheim, at
Dutsch's store, 10 a.. M; Bush, at
Oak Grove school, 2 p. NJ; Central
school, at Z p. m.
Wednesday, Dec. 21-At Lacomne
school. 10 a. M; Slidell, Communi-
tv House, 2 p. M; Pearl River school
at p. b.
Generol Roundup Meeting.
slidell, Community House, Thuss-
day, Dec. %, at 10 a. m.
Covington, courthouse, Thursday.
Dec. %, at 2 p. m.
Mr. u. l. .Burdick, of North Da-
kota, representing the American
Farm Bureau Federation, says:
"At the present moment
agriculture in America is unable 10
buy. Crops are being sold now TOT
less than the cost Of production. For
annie. in North Dakota, great
snring wheat state that normally
nroduces 10000, 900 bushels of hard
wheat, the cost has much exceeded
the amount that the crop mas
brought in past two years SheeD
west Of the Mississippi river are
mortgaged for twice what they are
worth. Wool remains at any price.
"Beef cattle show an interesting
story. Prime beef on the Chicago
market is quoted at a price less tnan
,re-war DAYS but that does NOT ten
the story. The farmer does not get
,nvwhere near what he did befofe
ho war because from the selling
,rica must be deducted freight, feed
,om missions. etc. all OF Wh1ch nave
doubled. Freight rates from the
vest to the large centers on an aV-
orage have doubled and in some IN
stances more than that. SO when
the returns come back to the farmer
he has verv much less than he haa
in the days before the war. The
entire list OF farm products shows
the same result.
Farmer Is Broke.
Cali OF this has put the farmer out
of business, so far as his being able
to buy. He cannot buy: he's broke!
He does not usually go through bank
| ruptcy: he has not enough money
left to do that He moves away and
goes where? To the city to swell
the working class and the unemploy-
ed. In eight counties of North Da-
kota, where this year the crop Is the
best in the state, 1863 farmers pull
T. ~ 80 h0
and 10000 acres of agricultural
land were left idle for 1921.
"Thp condition of the farmer
| north, south, east and west Is seri-
GUS, especially so in the south and
west where one-crop system is moro
in vogue" = =