The Missouri herald., 1922-05-12
PEMISCOT FARM Il.
BUREAU NEWS
Why Join the Farm Bureau?
(Dennis Murphy, President Bon
Homme County, South Dakota,
Farm Bureau.)

talk to you about the Farm Bureau,
an organization which is of vital
Importance to you as an American
farmer.
Do you know and appreciate just
what the Farm Bureau did for you
last year? I have given the PROPOSE
ton a little study and am going to
tell you just what it did for me, and
then you can figure your benefits
for yourself, bearing in mind the
size of your farming operations.
am farming half section in Bon
Homme county, and in the year 1921
the farm Bureau, through the ma
tional office, made the following
savings for me:
$4,000 a year by the defeat OF
the Nolan bill.
$4,000 a year by the defeat OF
the Sales Tax bill.
$27.5O year by the defeat Of the
Transportation tax.
$4,000 year by the reduction OF
railroad generalization.
$1,000 year by the reduction OF
railroad rates
The total is $379.50
Sounds like fairy tale, doesn't
it? If you doubt these things, get
a copy of the Nolan bill and the rest
of the bills and study them awhile.
Do some figuring with pencil and
then after you ascertain the part
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
tion played to protect our interests.
you will feel proud of your organt-
zation. l said the national Office
which is supported by our fifty-cent
pieces, saved me $39750 in 1921.
Not only did they do it last year, but
the saving will be the same for this
year, 1922, and next year, and every
year that is to follow; the savings
will increase in proportion to the
manner in which we back our or
ganization The $397.50 | can fig.
ure out for myself with my stub pen
Gil, but what l can't figure out is the
untold good the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation has done for us in
their great educational campaign
to enlighten the city people, the
consumers of our products, as to the
condition and need of the American
farmer.
Last year bill providing for
three transcontinental concrete plea
sure boulevards was introduced in
Congress. The automobile and ce-
ment blocs backed the bill. The de-
feat of this bill was largely due tc
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. The Federal Road Program
now calls for farm to market
roads, which will benefit the Ameri.
can farmer. What was this worth
to you?
Packer control has been agitated
for twenty years. The Farm Blu
reau put it through. The Farm Bu-
reau took grain exchange legislation
out of cold storage and passed it
| The American Farm Bureau FEEDER
| alton is still working away at the
Truth in Fabric Law" and fight.
ing for a further reduction in the
| freight rates, not to mention better
credit laws and other big PROPOSE
tions that are of vital interest tC
us. Have you ever stopped to realize
what the great cooperative market
| ing program of the American Farm
Bureau Federation means to us in
dividually as we'll as collectively? F?
They have organized the cotton
growers. the wool growers, the
grain growers, and are now hard at
work getting the livestock producers
into one big organization.
/ have told you what the Farm
Bureau has done for me. 1t has done
| Tie odillc ioI you. iou hhoW 'ho'
we need organization. You know
that it is only through organization
that we, as American farmers, can
ever hope to secure that economic
justice which will spell prosperity
and health and happiness on our
farms and in our homes. You know
that it takes money to accomplish
this. Have you paid your dues?
Have you forgotten the great ag-
ricultural lesson of 1921" Times
look brighter now; there's cause
Let us help the cause.
Forward" is the slogan adopt
ed by the national office. have
made my plea to you, believing sin
cerely in every word and statement
/ have made, No one man nor
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