The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
VAL LIABLE PRIZES
OFFERED IN FARM
BUREAU CANT A|GN
Drive for New Members Meets
Success Throughout State.
Many Community Meet
ings Are Held

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Feb. A.
Especial )-Reports reaching the
state headquarters of the Alabama
Farm Bureau federation are to the
effect that many meetings are being
held by county and community farm
bureaus throughout Alabama and at
each. many farmers are joining the
federation. From several of these
meetings the statement has come
that every invited farmer present
signed the contract of the organi-
zation.
During January the officials of the
county farm bureaus discussed the
memb ership with farmers of their
vicinities and theSmonth was spent
mostly in answering questions and
outlining the work of the farm bu-
reau and it's subsidiary organization.
An active canvass for new MEM
bers is now in earnest Several coun-
ties have set aside specified weeks
this month in which intensive work
to get new members will be done.
Officials of the state organization
state they are very we'll pleased with
the way the membership campaign 10
being handled and the results OBJ
tanned so far.
The premium list to date is as fol-
lows:
Premium List
Piano, Jesse French e. Sons Piano
company, Montgomery; farm, donors
name withheld; 500 worth of shoes,
Pitts Shoe company, Montgomery;
pure bred Shorthorn bull, Central of
Georgia Railroad company; two
Delco light plants, Domestic Elec-
trio company. Birmingham; loving
cup two feet high, Alabama Farm
Facts, Montgomery; 25 daily and
Sunday G-year) subscriptions to the
Advertiser, Alabama Farm Facts.
Montgomery; 100 yearly subscrip-
tions to Alabama Farm Facts, Ala
bama Farm Facts, Montgomery; 10
insurance policies, $1,000 value each.
Alabama Farm Facts, Montgomery;
complete clothing outfit, Guarantee
Clothing company; set of bedroom
furniture, Montgomery Fair, Mont
gomery; pure bred Shorthorn bull,
c. w. Rittenour, Montgomery; De-
Laval cream separator. the DeLaval
Serapator company, New York city;
Starr monograph, the Starr Piano
company, Montgomery; pure bred
Guernsey bull. agricultural depart
ment, Chamber of Commerce, Mont
gomer; Mitchell tv-o-horse wagon,
Alabama Machinery and Supply COM
pany, Montgomery; Sheffield cast
range, King Stove and Range com
pany, Sheffield; pure bred Jersey
bull, Cattle Exchange. Montgomery;
complete radio set Loveman, Joseph
& Loeb, Birmingham; 100 tons of ag-
ricultural lime, McDonough Ore and
Mining company, Birmingham one
ton SAILS. ury" cotton seed, Delta and
Pipe Land company of Mississippi.
Memphis, Tenn; $500, Illinois Central
Railroad company; IL different styles
of plows, one No. IL guano distribu-
tor and one No. 20 Ledbetter planter.
Moore & Handley Hardware COM
pany, Birmingham; two tons of fer
tilizer, Southern Cotton Oil company;
registered Jersey bull. Jemison &
Co., Birmingham; 6-12 general pur-
poses tractor. Allis-Chalmers Manu-
featuring company, Milwaukee, Wis;
100 annual subscriptions to the
Southern Dairyman, Southern Dairy
man, Montgomery; 500 pounds cal
cium arsenate. Durr Drug company,
Montgomery; one model TX" multi
service tractor, Beeman Tractor COM
pany, Minneapolis, MINI. Number of
other premiums pending. No contri-
button worth less than $1o0