The Neshoba Democrat. (Philadelphia, Miss.) 1881-current, 1922-02-02
MUSCLE SHOALS AND
THE FARM BUREAU
BEING THE SECOND kND LAST lSSTiLlHENT
ON WHAT THE EDITOR SAW AND HEARD
WHILE THERE

Muscle Shoals and the Farm Bureau
movement
AT the banquet | was fortunate
in having a seat at the speakers
table.
Atmy left sat NJ. G, Angood, Ala
balna's State Commissioner of Agri-
culture from whom | learned many
things about Alabama, and who re-
GREETED with me that our farmers
We're planning a larger acreage Of
cotton for this year with the likli-
hood of lower priced cotton and all
that that means To our discouraged
cotton growers. He thinks, asdo /,
that one real cause oi the present
bear markett il that brokers and
spinners are anticipating a larger
crop next year and the lower prices
that 1T will usher in.
Across the table from me sat Or
Spright Dowell. president of Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute at Au.
burn. who made an eloquent appeal
iOr a larger institution where Alb
uaulit boys might be better prepar
ed for opportunities that II greater
Industrial Alabama would bring,
and who, too, said some very HAT
tering things about our own State
A. and Nj.
Also at this table sat Chas. e.
Guunells Of Chicago. Secretary Of
the American Farm Bureau Federa.
tion, who pictured graphically the
the wonderful progress the move
ment was making with it's already
1900, 900 members, and what 1t pro-
posed to do for the American farm
er.
G. o. MosheI, Dallas. Texas; Gray
Silver, Washington representative
of the Farm Bureau Federation; w.
G. Jamison OF lie Veta, Colorado,
Chairman Farm Bureau Muscle
Shoals investiga alton and DIR. w. F..
Walker, president of the California
Farm Bureau, and t. N. Orr, presi-
dent of the Texas Bureau made ex-
cellent talks,
G. o. Mosher gave an interesting
history OF the growth of the Ameri-
can Cotton Growers Exchange of
which he is the secretary. He pre-
dicted that they would handle 3,000,-
600 bales Of this years crop and do
a $200,000.000 business and be the
worlds greatest cooperative organi-
zation, 1t was earlier in the day, en-
me his opinion of "haf and half"
cotton. He said that it would be
impossible soon to market this sta.
pie and that farmers would make a
serious mistake in growing it, and
that his exchange could not use it at
all.
DR.. Walker, from the Sacramento
Valley, brought one Of the most in
splring messages possible. He said
that 95 per cent OF those who fought
in the American Revolution, and
wrote our Constitution and Declara-
tion OF Independence were farmers
Farming in America, he said, is an
industry OF such magnitude that
there is more money Invested in it
than In all our manufacturing plants,
all our railroads and our seven other
largest industries combined; more
money than there is in all our banks
put together. And the startling fig
ures he submitted were that 81 per
. cent of all the people In gainful oc-
cupations were farmers, and yet
this "a per cent received only 16 per
cent Of the returns. AS surely, he
said, as farmers pay 10 per cent in
terest on their lands they were head
\ ed for the rocks, and that our Ship
Of State would sink along with the
destruction OF agriculture.
DR.. Walker is an eloquent speaker,
and he Is, also, o grandiloquent snor-
er. Perhaps should say sonorous
snOrer. He was generous enough to
share his room with me at an over
crowded hotel, but he sawed wood
all night. have heard people from,
many states snore In their sleep, but
California takes the cake. Had / not
given him a poke or two In the ribs
this man from the land OF raisins
would have raised the whole house.
hold.
attended d part Of the Farm Bu-
reau's sessions the next day, and
believe can say to the farmers Of
Neshoba County that the Farm ,Bu-
reau movement, with Its planned
coopera i've buying and selling, Ia
destined to solve many Of our agri-
cultural problems.
The American Farm Bureau Ia be-