Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-09-09
FARM BUREAU PAYS
DIVIDENDS In FIRST
YEAR, REVIEW SHOWS
State Federation Reports Practical
Accomplishments Of Last
IL Months.
1wNRsoTA RAR1E BUREAU
FEDERATION NEWS S&3V1C8
Minnesota Farm Bureau FeQerat1oH
BY NEIL III. SWANSON


Practical results achieved by the
farm bureau movement in the last IL
months have paid back to the farmers
of Minnesota, in various ways, many
times the amount of money they have
invested in it as members, the Min
nesota Farm Bureau federation says
in a report which is to be submitted
reau.
The report summarizes practical
accomplishments of the state and ma
tional farm bureau decorations dur
ing the past year in their work to
protect and promote the interests OF
the farmer.
1.-The Minnesota Farm Bureau fed
GRAFTON is an organization of farmers
established by farmers to promote
and protect the interests Of agricul-
ture and those dependent upon il"
the review says.
1.-The Minnesota Farm Bureau fed
Grafton is made up of eighty county
Farm Bureau Associations. One year
ago, it had less than 10000 members;
on August 81 this year, it's total mem
bership was $4,000.
The Minnesota Farm Bureau fed
Grafton is part Of the greatest farm
movement ever launched in the
United States to advance the farmers
business interests by practical bust
ness methods. The Farm Bureau
Movement is backed by 1, $4,000 or
ganized farmers, who have united as
members of county farm bureau as
sociations, and through these county
bureaus into At state declarations and
one strong national federation.
The Minnesota Farm Bureau feder-
alton is less than two years old. 1t
is only an infant in age, but in it's
10 months of work, it has accomp-
lished results that have paid back to
the farmers, in various ways many
times the amount of money each far
mer has contributed as a member.
This work has involved practically
every activity in which farmers are
interested.
"The Farm Bureau has worked to
develop and impress cooperative mar
keting; to obtain passage of laws nee
essary to farmers interests and to de-
feat laws designed to injure agricul-
ture; to reduce transportation costs
to gain public and legal recognition
of the farmers right to bargain col
lectively; to cooperate, to the fullest
possible extent, with the state depart
ments of agriculture, the agricultural
extension service of the University OF
Minnesota, and every other official
and unofficial agency that is sincere
ly working for the good of agricul-
ture; to obtain more liberal credit
for agricultural production and mar
keting; to equalize wages for farm
labor; to assist other farmers organ
iZations to accomplish their objects;
to investigate financial and market
conditions, and obtain accurate facts
and figures that will enable farmers
a scientific business basis.
THE entire effort of the Farm Blu
reau Federation, both state and ma
tional, is devoted to serving the far.
mers in a practical way that means
dollars and cents to every farm blu.
reau member.
''The Federation and the County
Farm Bureaus were the means of or,
ganiZing the Central Cooperative
Commission Association, to market
livestock comparatively on the South
st. Paul market. The new farmer
owned company, organized, backed
and partly financed by the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation, is handling
IS per cent of all the livestock ar.
irving on the South st. Paul marke,
from farmers Shipping association:
in Minnesota and Wisconsin. On Au
gust %, the total arrivals of live
stock on the South St. Paul marke
amounted to 2O3 cars; the farmer
owned company received 81 of them
1.-TWO hundred and fifty local CO
operative livestock shipping associa
tions in Minnesota are members O
the central sale agency; 80 associa
lions in Wisconsin and several il
South Dakota also have Joined.
THE cooperative firm is doing tn
A"A ana sell
ing livestock at prevailing prices.
THE commission charges of thi
association are Is per cent less thai
those of the Exchange, and the las
two weeks it has been able to pay al
expenses and has accumulated a re
serve of about 20 per cent, whic
means that they are doing bushes
for As per cent less than the marke
has been charging.
1.-THE Minnesota Farm Bureau fet
GRAFTON has assisted in organizing an
financing the Minnesota Co-operatiy
Creameries Association, Inc. Estal
lishment of field service and a sal,
service are included in the progra
Of the new organization. Saving
from 40 to so cents on each hundre
mounds 0f h11ffor chinnoI hxv m a~ow