St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10
STICKING IN PINS

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Tick--tick-clatter, 4clatter, clatter
whir-r-r-r goes the stock ticker. On the
Chicago Board Of Trade hundred thou
sand bushels Of May wheat has just been
sold. Tick, tick-clatter, clatter-whizz
whir-r-r-r, New York has bought ten
! thousand shares of U. S. Steel Preferred.
Minute by minute. hour by hour, this busy
little instrument records the rise and fall
ofindustry and its message spells exhilara-
ton and depression, success and failure.
Industrial experts carefully study the un-
rolling tape and from it feel the pulse Of
the worlds business.
All over this land, in state and county.
township and community, the fight is
being carried on these days to make perma-
nent farmers organization; to bring
health and strength back to the funda-
mental industry Of soil tilling and stock
raising; and in the Chicago Office Of the
American Farm Bureau Federation the
progress Of this organization campaign
is being carefully watched and checked.
hour by hour. and day by day.
Maps Tell the Story.
Instead of ticker and tape, map on
the wall shows every county in the United
States. Whenever county is organized
and Farm Bureau established. red
headed pin is placed in that county, and
Farmers Preferred" advances a point.
Out west, where the counties cover hun
dreds of square miles, these pins appear
far apart, while in little Rhode Island three
pins close together make 100 per cent
farm bureau state. Every pin represents
days and weeks OF hard work and tells in
brief the story Of success,
The entire recording mechanism. how
ever, is much more delicate than is re-
quired for noting the addition of new
counties. As the stream of dailv mail
goes thru the central Office, every letter
is scanned for news from the field telling
the story bit by bit of the steady increase
in membership
What One Woman Did.
The searchlight plays for moment on
Virginia, where down in the Blacksb,ro
district of Montgomery County the story
OF Farm Bureau is being carried thru
storms and over impossible roads on
horseback. In Humboldt County. in
northern Nevada, where woman drives
fifty miles to the nearest railroad station
and rides five hundred more to attend the
annual state Farm Bureau meet;no At
Keno and learn how she best could help
advance the work that means so much TO
western agriculture. With wide sween /
the light swings back for moment to |
old New York State where, in Jefferson
County, Ellisburg Township has lust come
thru with signup of 90 per cent OF the
entire farm population.
in Utah, pushing the regular county
l'lives, we see the president OF the state
arm bureau taking the field at the head
y flying squadron in one direction
while an executive committeeman of the
American Farm Bureau personally )eads
picked team from county to county in
mother. South Dakota is wipinq ont
'nancial deficit Of $500 in 81 minutes
n Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska new
and endeavor develop daily.
An Organized Agriculture.
The recording system in Chicago ticks
way day after day, abstracting and card
ndexing the most detailed and minnie
niormation as to the daily progress Of the
'ork. filing away bit at time under
ach state its planning and progress, tell
q on accurate story OF discouragements.
'orries, and fears, as we'll as Of successes
nd triumphs. SO that at any moment the
'rector may glance over the tape and IS
once IN possession of all the facts IN
very case.
>o the record grows and day BY day
county at time, the blank spaces on
,e map are filled up with little red-headed
ms small u themselves, but great in
e sum INT total Of what they represent-a Fl
'''oly organized American agriculture.