St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-05-20
A. F. B. Member May Ship
Through Cooperative
Marketing Assn.
THEN GETS WHAT 1.
is PROMISED HIM
Farmers Wife May Become
Member Without Pay
ment of Extra Fee
(By A. e. Briggs)

ST. Tammany parish is SO rich in
natural advantages one can hardly
understand why III r4neyWoods coun-
try hundreds OF miles from any good
sized city there are more prosperous
communities. 1t Is indeed strange
that in the enyirOns OF nearly every
great city there are thousands OF
acres OF waste lands which have 1T
stla value But one can usually find
reasons
Many of these wood patches were
once fertile farm lands, but the city
came, real estate speculator got
the tract and sold it as town lots.
1t was too far out to be city prop
erty and so it lost money for the
lot Investors. The ownership was
80 scattered it could not be turned
back into profitable farms. st. Tam
many parish is not without some ex-
periences of this kind.
Then too near the great city it is
difficult to estaD Dlish social and COM
munity feeling. People read the city
daily newspaper, their children DRIFT
into the city, go to work there and
become city dweliers. So the coun-
try community loses interest in ITSELF
Its social life is really carried on i'll
the city. The farmers have not ord!-
narily come to appreciate the ad-
vantages to themselves and the I
families from living in the open coun-
try. They long to leave the farm
and live in town.
So the country near the big city
is too often the victim of it's loca-
ton 1t is the prey OF the city lot
speculator and the lure Of the city
prevents it from developing conf
4 munlty spirit at home. -.."
For these reasons more than any
other, more than from the increased
advantage from marketing farm pro
ducts through the American Farm
Bureau-the A. F. B. national
cooperative association, cab nave
value for the farmers of st. Tam
many parish.
It is not generally understood that
the a. F. B. is not a marketing Or
ganization, although mem bership in
bership on the same terms. No one
realizes better than the farmer how
it entities the member to ship with
the cooperative marketing associa-
tions which are affiliated with the
A. F. B. But when the farmer ships
through the marketing associations
4 he must make written contract
which sets out fully the agreements
with him, and which in the case OF
the model contracts which have been
50 far prepared are very fair and JUS
70 the farmer. He is never in doubt
about what is promised to him il h.,
can read plain English.
But the local American Farm Bu-
reau when it is organized in this
parish gets the farmers and their
wives and families together for
social pleasure and to consider and
plan for their mutual welfare. 1t
stimulates interest in the rura.
SCHOOLS helps to improve them. Dis
cusses c best methods for building aud
keeplng up roads (How much we
need general knowledge about this
rlgnt now). It Organizes communi-
y amusements and so gives an in
centlVe for the farmers to take in
serest and pleasure in their own To-
calfty 1t affords the farmers op-
+ portun1ty to discuss crops, methods
4 ~ ldfm management, and other prob.
lems OF interest on the farm.
me farmer who becomes a mem
g. Witnout extra fee for member
sup entities his wife also to be
member, or if he is not married his
mother or sister can take the mem
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