Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-09-13
BUREAU TO QUIZ
ALL CANDIDATES
County Directors, in Annual Meeting
at State Fair, Decide to Send
Out QUESTIONABLE
CREDITS AMENDMENT =
CAMPAIGN ORGANIZED

CHAMPAIGN O1tGANlZED
Farmers Entitled to Cost Plus" if
They Produce ON q Business Basis,
- Chester Gray Says
All state and legislative candidates
in Minnesota will be asked to define
their positions on important issues in
volving agriculture before November
elections are held A decision to send
out such a questionable was reached
by county directors Of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation, who held
their third annual business session at
the Minnesota State Fair last week.
A committee, to be named by Pres1-
dent ]. F. Reed, will prepare the ques-
tionnaire and send it out with as little
delay as possible. e. -.
When the proposal was presented, it
was suggested that such action would
throw the Federation into politics.
Proponents held that farmers have a
right to know how any candidate, re-
CARELESS of party utilization, stands on
matters pertaining to agriculture, and
that it is duty Of the Federation to
give them such facts. After debate
the motion carried unanimously.
Directors voted to lend the influence
of the whole Farm Bureau movement
to the campaign now being waged to
obtain favorable action on Amendment
No. 1, which will permit Minnesota to
organize a state rural credits system.
Every director is to do his part in
getting Farm Bureau township units
golidly behind the amendment.
Ways in which the county Farm
Bureaus can be made productive Of
greater dollar-and-cents results were
discussed at length. Several delegates
explained how their farmers had been
helped by supplying them with posts
and Paris Green at considerable saw
ings.
A resolution endorsing area testing
to eradicate bovine tuberculosis, pre-
sented by w. A. Peck, livestock COM
missioner at South st. Paul, was dis
cussed. Mr.. Peck suggested that the
project be started in two counties to
demonstrate it's efficiency. Opposition
to action at this time was expressed,
because of the cost. The resolution
was referred to the legislative COM
mittee without recommendation.
A special committee was authorized
to make thorough investigation Of
the ship subsidy and to report to the
annual meeting in January, so that
the Federation would be able to take
an intelligent stand on that issue. An.
other committee was authorized to
draft the Federation's Agricultural
nd ton
was empowered to consider a new
County Agent and County Farm Blu
reau legislation, and to report at the
winter meeting Personnel of all COM
mittees will be announced by Presi-
dent Reed shortly
A discussion of how the business
of farming can be made more profit
able by Chester H. Gray, former presi-
dent of the Missouri Farm Bureau
Federation and pioneer in the move
ment, was the feature of general
program in the Horse Show building,
which proceeded the business session.
Mr. Gray discussed the Farm Blu
reau movement in its national phase.
The Washington Office of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation, he said,
scored one of it's greatest victories
when it established the principle that
the national debt, now about $500 for
each person in the county, should be
paid by income taxes ''This," he said,
throws the burden on the shoulders
of those best able to carry it. For
the first time in all history, the tax
load has been shifted from those least
able to pay -
Mr.. Gray said railroad rates are
too high, despite recent cuts. IF the
railroads say they can not stand fur
Their reductions, we farmers reply that
they should reduce their overhead and
run the lines more efficiently"
Speaking on production, he said
farmers are entitled to "'cost, plus d
reasonable profit" only when they use
good business practices in their work
Farmers must produce efficientlyppro-
,duce what the world wants and as
much as the world wants." he said
He advocated the commodity market
ing program OF the national Farm
Bureau organization and said the
farmers problem will never be solved
as long as he is content to confne
cooperative marketing. to local points.
I'VE must become factors in the ter
minal markets, he said.
F. w. Peck, director Of agricultural
extension, University of Minnesota,
reviewed farm bureau and county
agent work in the state during the
ten years since the first bureau was
organized in Traverse county. He
said the future of Minnesota farming
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