The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-04-15

esting situation. because of the grea'
variety of agricultural products produc-
ed there-more than 160 in ALL Farm
ers in the Golden State are hard put just
now on account of the long distance to
their markets. Most of all they are in
terested in transportation-lower freight
charges. Their deep interest in fruit
| marketing Is shown by the fact that
California is sending rs delegates to the
fruit marketing conference In Chicago
on April 5. l found, in California a
surprisingly through understanding be-
tween the different Sections of the state
and fine sympathy between the various
farmers organizations. They understand
CARNATIONS. They are all looking to- the
Farm Bureau to play the chief role as
the great interorganization society. "UI
IN the great northwest the interest In
the Farm Bureau amounts to fervor in
| the hearts of the farmers. All America
| will be looking to the northwest farm
day. If they keep going forward as they
have started. They were all eager to
know about the commodity marketing
plans and came forward with hearty
teens plan when it was explained. In
, stead of the expected interorganization
friction which some expected. I found
the west are suffering from the same
general complaint Of all agriculture:
Lack Of markets, insufficient credits.
riculture is properly addressing its
thought and energy to find amelioration
for these ills"
In order to complete the Gift Corn
Project as rapidly as possible, minute
men are being sent from the headquar-
tiers of the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton to the principal corn producing
o Gsr ne dree
tor of the project. Charles E. Gunnels.
assistant secretary, Of the American
charge of the project in Nebraska. Among
the minute men sent out this week are:
o. L. Hatch to Minnesota; l.; e. Frazee
to Kansas; Fl. b. WEIGH to Missouri; w.
II. Smith to Indiana; and NJ. l.. Hunt to
Nebraska.
4 report of the shippers Conference
published by the American Farm Bureau
Federation. Copies have been mailed
out to all the delegates who attended
e seeases By senns ten e0e eens
stamps to the American Farm Bureau
Federation, So E. Washington St. Chi
cago, ILL., The report contains the
other material
An official emblem to be worn by
members of the American Farm Bureau
Federation has been adopted: The gen.
eral design to be used by all the states
will be the same. The emblem con-
yeys in striking manner the idea OF
strength of the Federation. 1t consists
of an outline map of the United States,
surmounted by the American eagle vol
is a shield of the American Farm
Bureau Federation displaying 1.-THE let
tiers A. F. B.. F. The panel carrying
tiers surmounts this. The emblems are
very attractive and may be obtained by
Farm Bureau members upon application
to the secretaries Of their state fedora
tons.
Secretary J. W. Coverdale has called a
conference Of the field representatives OF
held in the General offices of the
American Farm Bureau Federation on
March s1-April 2. Attending the con- n,
the organization work in the northwest;
:. B. Heaton, in the northeast; Harry F.
Kapp, in the central south; G.. L. Wyatt,
in the central east. and Lewis E. Tay-
lor in the southeast.
Fruit farmers from all sections Of the
United States will attend the National
in the Congress Hotel. Chicago, on
April S. The important gruit-growing
sections and fruit marketing 'organiza-
tions will send large delegations to pres
Director of the Cooperative Marketing
DEPARTMENT Of the American can Farm farm
the discussion viii deal chiefly with
| transportation as it affects the fruit
fruit marketing. tariff problems of dis
| tribution, and methods of increasing
consumption of fruit.
westmoreland Davis. Governor OF
Virginia, has just Joined the Farm
Bureau. He is the fourth governor to
become a Farm Bureau member within
governor of the Old Dominion from 1914
| to 1918, is presiden of the Virginia Farm
Bureau Federation.
A report from the Minnesota Farm
Bureau Federation states that more
than $4,000 farmers have Joined the or
ganization; Community units have been
ties In "a counties. every township has
an organization.
At the tobacco marketing conference
held in Louisville. KY. on March g. the
| foundation was laid for the eventual Or
ganization of a national tobacco market
Sn ibs
Federation and was attended by repre-;
sentative tobacco growers from several
states. c. H. Gustafson represented the
American Farm Bureau Federation and
advocated the appointment of a national
| tobacco marketing committee to work
out a cooperative marketing plan on
which the growers of all sections could
unite. Aaron Sapiro, on the other hand,
advocated the immediate adoption of the
plan on which the Tobacco Growers Co
Operative association is now organizing
the growers of Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina. The conference
adopted a resolution endorsing the gem
eral principles Of cooperative marketing
of farm products according to the So
called California plan and declared the
belief that such principles are econom-
Ideally sound. The conference further de-
clared that it should be the goal OF
tobacco producers ultimately to unite In
| a national cooperative marketing or
ganization by decorating existing units.
BLOOD POISON VICTIM