The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-01
HEADQUARTERS OF FARM BUREAU ID
 BE LOCATED HERE
In Two Years Birmingham Will Be Seat of Large Federation Says
 Rittenour

Proposals of the Alabama Farm Bureau federation to establish state headquarters at Birmingham was the outstanding feature of the execu, tive committee meeting ht1e yes terday cf that organization. | As soon as the organization worK iS completed this should take place, | according to c. w Rlttenour of Montgomery, president of the organ ization.
 Sin u taLeous with the II eeting of the executive committee, winch was it's frst meeting in Birmingham, 1t was rlaGe known by Mir Ilttenour that the is now in progress in Ala Lama enc of the greatest and most c3nstrut tive organization campaigns of farmers ever staged Tn tne United States.
 When completed the organization. will Ircyide way for economical pi od-.ot-on and efficient niarketing fer Il farmers of Alabama
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 FXplE. ing the necessity of this or ga.,'.dt n, Mir. Rfttenour stated that thulc is now strong and most vital demand that the farmers market their ItcduCts co-operatively, out that it is impossible to establish commod- i;y marketing organizations without fi,st laying a strong parent organ izapcn oi the farmers themselves .n each cOunty.
 Tho Farm bureau will 7o aiIe t. do this, beginning as soon as its or ganization campaign is over, about the middle of December, he stated.
 Present Honor List
 Accordill to MT. RittenoG the Ala anna tour ties already hav.ng strong. we'll organized farm bureaus are Lauderdaie, Limestone, ;S5ile1t, Etc wah. Calhoun. Pickens, |, le. Tai ladega, Lee, Autauga, Montgomery, Pike. Butter Dale, Cone san. Geneva and Balt win.
 Those that are now organizing or will begin within the next few days are Madison, Morgan, Lawrence, Franklin emar, Cherokee, Cleburne, Shelby, Tust aloosa, Sumter Coosa, Talladeea. Chambers, Greene, Fillmore, Bullock, Barbour, Choctaw, |. EscamLia. Covington, Mo1.le HousT ton and li'' ry
 With the establishment of it's state teadquarters here as soon as the or raniza tion work is finished and ac- cording to the plans already outlined and which are now being put into practice in other states it should, within the next two years, become one of the biggest offices in Birming- ham, with an annual pay roll of ap- proximately one quarter of a million dollars and with business transac- tion amounting to millions.
 Does Big Business
 Citing instances of where this IS
 Mr said that the Texas Farm Bureau federation, through it's cotton com modity marketing organization, has been handling during the cotton sea- son from $300,000 to S500,O00 worth of cotton each day and that by means of this organization the Texas farmers have borrowed through the banks, from the war finance board and otherwise $15,000,00 and s1,00o,- 900 from the banks, which has great ly accelerated business transactions in Texas.
 The Texas plan of cooperative cot ton marketing is now being put on by the farm bureaus in Arkansas and Mississippi The Alabama Farm Blu reau federation is rushing it's county organizations to take up the work and will not stop until not only cot ton, but hay potatoes, syrup, pea nuts. fruits and other farm products are marketed by the efficient co-op- erative method.
 Already tangible results have been secured by the Hale county farm bu- reau in the standardization and mar keting of hay which, when perfect ed. means a pig saving to the hay consumers in Birmingham, who are now paying more freight on hay than the farmers who produce 1t receive.