Milford chronicle., 1922-01-20


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IN ALL STATES where farmers have organized for
their financial and home welfare in the past ten
years. results are apparent Their combinations as point
ica1 units affiliated with the isms, propaganda which
vep over this country during and just before we enter
ed into the great results have shown that along nose
lines they have made grevious bunders but where they
have maintained direct interests for home economies o
civic welfare and for their advancement in the general
financial position they forging ahead and well TO tne
front In the editorial page of the North American OF
philadelphia last Sunday appeared under the caption OIL
PENNSYLVANIA Towns Please Copy an editorial wmch
tells of the experience of county in Texas wnicn can
he duplicated right here in Delaware We have the men
capabe to carry the program into because what
that western community has done the farmers of Della
ware can do even better The plan of forming an execu
tive body to look after the public interests of towns is
well known, as Chambers of Commerce, and they are
working out excellent results but this plan goes turther
and makes the county the unit for the efforts OF all ne
people to get behind push for their own prosperity
We will reprnt the editorial so that the idea be alb
sorbed and we hope will of the advanc
ed thinkers the agricultural community OF Delaware 10
start the rolling and demonstrate to the other states
of the Unon that Delaware is first in actual dong tnngs
we'll first in signing the constitution nearly Oo nun
dred and fifty years ago:
.Tefferson and Marion are names of meaning in Amer-
can history so town named Jefferson in county named
Marion might be expected to supply something little out
of the ordinary.
Marion county is Texas and that is in it's favor For
far west not yet had time to settle in rus Iney
break new paths through the wilderness of old customs
whenever they think shorter better road is to be
thus gained
The soil in east Texas highly productive-almost as
much so as the Pennsylvania which is saying more
than many a Pennsylvania is aware Of The man VINO
ts Texas soil is just as important to his community
and his country and the world at large as tne man WI"
tills soil anywhere.
No man is quite so important to the human family as
this man. And just because Pennsylvania is thicky dotted
with factories and than city whose popua
ton is larger than that of western states IS no rea
son why we should do less for the farmer
What this western community has done to help along
the farmer and make him he is welcome resident is
worth relating in In the first place. the county or
ganzed chamber of commerce which unlike many groups
of this sort was aggressive and cooperative from the
start chamber of commerce hired competent man
ager who devotes his entire time to his duties.
Whenever farmer stockman calls at his office the
nbrase Il let YOU know later" WeI take that up
soon as find time for it, is not heard SIX rural
meetings a week have not been uncommon week after
week. The bulletins and Helpful Suggestions, both
general and specific and personal visaions from repre-
the federal department of agriculture the
public health service the Texas department of agrcu-
ture the department of health the Texas chamber
of commerce. industrial congress- the railroad agr
cultural departments and the different national manuac
turing which cooperate for the bettement OF
livestock and general farming.
The agricultural department of the chamber OF COM
accomplished in ten weeks distinct benefits for the
farmers of this section First working on the principle
that cooperation is always the key that unlocks the box
of victory there perfected Marion county farmers
association which intended primarily for the white
farmers organized community associations totalng
membership of approximately 200 members; with each
community group sending its delegates to compose the
county associations Fair representation has been main
tanned as basis democracy which in turn always be-
gets success.
Standardization of varieties and quantities of all truck
and general crops the marketing in carload lots is the
basis the association Already they have doubled the
watermelon acreage in the county what it was IN
previous years. The seed ordered comparatively
which secured standardized variety and planting of all
acreage the week. incidentally the farmer saved 81
cents per pound in the cost of seed All community or
ganzatons the night in section; and
thew have the same constitution and bylaws.
week farmers institutes held with one day in
each of six sections the territory to be served Spec
ialists presented lectures and demonstrations fer
zation terracing, crop marketing and cotton cassng
Special meetings in the institute devoted to the
problems of the The purchase Of more inn
proved machinery and general farm implements both by
individual and by communities worthwhile accom-
plishment.
Approaching the of close cooperation between the
farmer merchant the typical trades day was in
augurated These days differ somewhat and are believed
to be an improvement that special arranged
each time for the exhibition of farm produce and register
ed livestock Cash prizes offered for exhibitions as
well as for athletic other types of contests As
as sxyve persons have been loaded on one wagon to-
come eight miles to such day. These days are per-
manent institution in Jefferson with the farmers en-
tire family anticipating them with pleasure.
These are only few of the things the townsfolk have