Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-09
FARM BUREAU HAS PLAN
FOR COUNTY FIELD DAY


 At 1Sehg of the directors of the New Lqfdon County Farm and Home Bureau Hheld in the office in the Shannon building on Monday, considerable import ant business was taken up. At this meet ing it was voted to hold a county wide field day some time during this summer at which demonstrations of interest to both the men and women would be giv- en and one or two speakers of note se- cured. There would also be sports for everyone during the part of the day not taken up by the other items on the pro- gram.
 Stanclfn Hale, secretary of the state federation of farm bureaus and president of the Hartford County Farm Bureau. was present and gave a short talk on the plan which is being presented to each county farm bureau in the state for the organization of statewide membership campaign on S5 or $10 membershiD basis. MT, Hale said that it was about time the farmers realized that the farm bureau was a vital necessity. The or. dinary unfpn laboring man of today pays anywhere/from $45 per year up for dues | to his organization. While the farm bu- l reau is by no means a union it is an organization for the protection of the' l agricultural and rural interests of the United States. The plan proposed by MT Hale was that. outlined by the national federation. If this state will hire a paid 1 secretary to organize the state member | ship campaign with paid organizers t~ national federation will supply a man to assist in this work. These paid organ izers would go into the different counties of the state and solicit memberships on the three year basis. s2.50 of each membership would be turned over to the state federation, soc of which would be forwarded to the national federation for dues to this federation.
 Following MT. Hale's remarks a motion
 was made and seconded that the dues of 1 the New London County Farm Bureau
 be raised from sat50 per family member
 ship to s10 per family membership and that the plan proposed by the state fede- ration be endorsed by the New London County Farm Bureau. This was carried This means that the plans which were previously made for the membership cam paign to be run during the first of May will probably be somewhat altered and , the s10 membership campaign will .be : organized as soon as the state federation is able to get under way.
 A. w.. Lillibridge of Norwich wal : elected delegate to represent the Earn : Bureau at the New England conferenc, . lof farm bureaus will be held at Con Icord, N. H., on the 10th of March, A ithis time delegates from all of the count
 farm bureaus in New England will b. . lpresent and plans talked over for de = veloping the farm bureau work here il
 New England.
 a Mrs. Roger Dewolf was elected a di = rector for Old Lyme while Miss udre, e GeArnon. the director for Norwich ore e seneted her resignation. fhe vacanc. s was not filled at this meeting
 Lebanon Men Talk Fertilizers l. At a Farm Bureau. and Exchang l. meeting held at Lebanon on Saturda afternoon about 20 men turned out t i, discuss fertilizers and their uses with Q s. Owens of the college and the count s agent Plans are under way at tn e present time for the' Lebanon exchang to get together orders for at least a car i load of chemicals and fertilizers. MI
 Aben the manager feels sure that ther , will also be a demand for one and pos |. sibly two cars of lime. Some of >th . other exchange managers ar ealso re d porting considerable cooperative bushes n lined up for chemicals and lime. f. Some of the men have apparently gc s the idea that mixed goods have decrease
 in value enough so that they can al Il ford to buy the ready mixed fertilizer d this year. As matter of fact this is nc Il the case. The best offerings of any kin
 on ready mixed goods that have been rt
 ported to the farm bureIu office are 4
 for ASA. on the same basis this fer
 tilizer can be made up by home mixin T for $34 or $35 using nitrate of soda. acj l. phosphate and muriate of potash. Tn man who mixes at home not only save "a as has been pointed out before from s1 Ir to $20 per ton. but also knows exact,
 what kind of fertilizer materials he g putting on his land. The man who buI i ready mixed goods this year Is payin t. a. from s10 to s20 per ton more than | e would if he buys the chemicals an S does his own mixing. according to tf ,t statement of the farm bureau manag, ,' ment