The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-11-15
Montana Farming Topics

5. Appointed the farmers dairy
marketing committee of IL to work
out a national plan for the co-opera-
tive marketing of milk and milk pro-
ducts, and employed the secretary
treasurer of the committee Of IL as
salaried director of the dairy division
Of the department of cooperative
marketing.
6. Appointed the farmers wool
marketing committee of 25, which has
developed cooperative wool pools in
1S states, handling a total of 100000
900 pounds of wool in a year, and en-
ployed a farmer-wool man as salar-
led director of wool division of de-
partment of cooperative marketing.
8. Endorsed the cooperative cot
ton marketing plan of the american
Cotton Growers Exchange, and
pledged every assistance in organic
ing the cotton pool.
9. Participated in a tobacco-mar-
keting conference and endorsed the
cooperative selling of tobacco.
10. Called a sugar beet marketing
conference and recommended a ma
tionally uniform contract.
IL. Provided q cooperative coal
buying service in cooperation with
five state farm bureau declarations.
II. Worked out a transportation
policy-immediate reduction in rail
road rates on basic commodities and
subsequent reductions as rapidly as
savings in operating expenses could
be effected-and advocated it to the
end that rate savings totaling $685.
100000 in freight bills on grain, hay
and livestock.
IA. Reduced railway valuation fol
purposes of computing guaranteed
earnings 81, ZOO, 600, 900, making ar
average saving of $50 each for every
farmer in the United States.
Is. ~CO-operated with state farm
bureau declarations in improving
transportation conditions; locally aid
ed in the revision of railroad rules ant
regulations affecting farm products.
16. Lent entire weight of influ
ence of largest farmers organization
in the world to passage of acts regu
J lating grain exchanges, increasing in
terest on farm loan bonds from 5 t,
5h per cent, increasing the working
capital of the federal farm loan sys
tenn by $25, 200, OCO, limiting immi
grafton to 2 per cent of foreign borl
residents, and providing federal APP
preparation for farms-to-market road
rather than boulevards-thus secur
ing a total of more agricultural legis
latiOn by one session Of Congress
than was ever before passed in tn
history of the nation.
II. Provided for agriculture a
authoritative voice in the capital an
throughout the nation.
IS. Fostered the agricultural bio
in Congress.
10. Secured passage of the packe
control law, thereby stopping in
direct drain on producers of amount
tOtalling 80 times annually the entir
operating expense of the America
Farm Bureau Federation.
20. Secured extension of War F.
nance Corporations power to len
S 1000, 900, 900 to farmers.
21. Appointed a salaried taxatio
director, worked out a tax policy
retain excess profits tax, kill the sale
tax. and prevent issue of all tax-fre
securities-and secured its adoption j
principle.
%. Gathered and shipped to Ell
rope 100000 bushels OF farmers gil
corn, thereby saving from ~starvatio
, thousands of children and incidental
ly creating an extended market f
|, American corn products abroad.
| p. Issued missionaries and re
} BRENDA involving definite problems
, national policy and presented Eyes
and "no" vote of entire Farm Burea
= membership to Congress.
: "a. Conducted county farm bures
hearings all over America and pr
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