Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-09-13
WINNESHIEK co.
FARMERS STRIKE
Hold Good Labor Day Meeting.
Farm Bureau Board Directors
Meet.
BIG TIME AT
LANSING FARM
About Sixteen Hundred Farmers
Gathered There on Labor
Day.

! Al tIeSe udyS Oh STRIKES people
have all been wondering what would
happen if the farmer should strike.
However, this has caused little con-
Germ upon the part of the public as
such thing as the farmers ceasing
to exert themselves to the utmost to
produce the crops that feed the
world has never been heard of. The
farmers of Winneshiek county, how
ever, did strike on labor day. The
most serious strike being when Ben
Rovang of Nordness struck out IN
the big farmers ball game which was
played at the Farm Bureau Picnic
which was held at Wenzel Lans.ng's.
In spite of the fact that threshEng
machines and silo filler were busy on
every hand, about sixteen hundred
farmers gathered at the beautiful
home of Wenzel Lansing, north of
Ossian, for a picnic dinner and to
hear a wonderful address which was
delivered by Mrs. Ellsworth Richard
son of Pella, Iowa. Mrs. Richardson
is a true farm woman, living and
raising her family on the farm, but
who has caught the vision of what
may be accomplished by the farm
ers for the betterment of their homes
and living conditions if they WI but
stand together as an organized body
the same as other groups have learn
ed to do.
In these days when p.nhead econ
omists who are insisting that farm
ers have lived too high, have spent
their money for such foolish TRIES
as hiring a trained red cross nurse
to examine their children in school
annually so that defects which would
later develop and be serious handi-
cap in the child's life and who have
been foolish enough to send their
children to school so that they might
have an equal chance with children
of parents in other occupations and
who have hired county agricultural
agents to promote and protect their
agricultural interests, it is refresh
ing to hear farm woman with a
Vision broad enough to see and to
insist that farm children be not de-
prived Of these advantages and 10
urge farmers to stand together so
that marketing systems may be es-
tablished so that the farmers of
America instead of receiving 3Oc out
of the consumers dollar may receive
more nearly goo, as in the case In
Denmark where farmers have been
working for the past thirty years to
standardze and market their own
products.
Those who heard Mrs. Richardson
received a new vision of the position
agriculture maintains in the nation.
About $50 farmers again gathered
for the evening meeting where short
talks were gwen by County Agent
and several prominent farmers and
! five reels of moving pictures were
shown with the farm bureau motion
picture outfit. The film on the Grad
ication of the round worm in hogs
was very instructive and profitable
to all who saw it.
Another meeting of unusual char
acter was held in the DEBORAH City
Park on Thursday, September 9TH.
This meeting was made UP of direc-
tors and co-operators of the Winnie
shiek county farm bureau. Mr.
Graft of the Extension Department
and L. S. Fisher of the State FEEDER
alton were present.
The general scope of farm bureau
work was discussed and plans for
making the work of the county agent
and the Farm Bureau more effective
was discussed. One of the big
problems that is being tackled by
the Department of Agriculture at
the present time is thai of tuber-
culos,s eradication. After consider
able discussion by the board of dir
ectors and others present it was de-
cided that the directors of each
township should call their co-opera-
tors together to discuss this import
ant problem and to decide whether a
Irtownshfp wide campaign should be
made to secure applications for the
federal test, or whether some other
plan such as hiring local veterln-
arian to do the work and disregard
ing the federal appropriation as is
being done in many places should be
carried out.
The benefit 10 agriculture OF lar
mers getting together and discus
sing problems such as these VIII I'M
doubtedly have a beneficial effect
Farm Bureau Activities for the
Coming Week.
Poultry culling demonstrations by
the County Agent will be held as
follows: =
Springfield Twp.-sept. l4th-P
! H. Barthelme, Jr., 9: 30 A. NJ.