The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-03
NAME MEMBERS
FOR BIG DRIVE
County Agricultural Board Make
Effort to Unite Every Produc-
err With Organization.
GOAL IS $50 MEMBERS

Appointment of H. o. Packard, OF
Hammonton, President of the Atlantic
County Board of Agriculture, as Coun-
ty Campaign Manager in charge of the
farm bureau membership drive in this
county during the week of October
8th to 18th, has just been confirmed
by the Executive Committee of that
Organization. The County Board of
Agriculture, which represents the lead
ing fruit and vegetable growers, poul-
tryment and general farmers of the
county, has set $50 members as its
membership goal. 1t will make an eff
fort to bring practically all producers
of the county under the organized di-
rection of the County Board of Agri-
culture, which centers its statewide
activities through the New Jersey
Federation of County Boards of Agri-
culture.
Associated with Mr.. Packard on the
membership drive will be W. ]. Slack,
of Hammonton, Executive Committee
man of the County Board; Henry Tap
ken, of Egg Harbor, President OF the
Atlantic County Fair Association and
Executive Committeeman of the State
Federation of County Boards; Charles
Stuber, of Linwood, County Delegate
to the New Jersey State Board of Ag-
riculture and Secretary of the County
Board; and John CasaZza, of East
Vineland, Vice-President of the Allan
tic County Board of Agriculture, and
member of the Atlantic County Voca-
tional School Board.
Headquarters for the membership
drive will be at the Office of the At
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Mays Landing.
MANY thousand dollars have been
saved to our farmers by the work of
the Atlantic County Board of Agricul-
ture during the past two and a half
years., according to a statement from
Charles Stuber, Secretary of the or
g~aniZation. "One of the most recent
activities of the Board was the COM
pletion of plans for the establishment
of the Municipal Wholesale Farmers
Market at Atlantic City, through the
cooperation of the Atlantic City Com
missioners and prominent hotel men.
! Farmers upon payment of a small fee
may sell their produce under the pro
Observation-Disclosures MICS Jeulaticns
established by the joint arrangement.
The market was opened on August LIST
of this veal and has been regularly
~patronized by over 100 farmers daily.
"On the matter of fertilizers, the
County Board successfully made a CO.
operative arrangement on the dstrbu-
ton of fertilizers which resulted in a
lower level of prices TO producers, in
some cases making a saving of from
$50 to SIS per farm.
1.-THE County Board, supported by
the New Jersey Federation of County
Boards of Agriculture, secured an ap-
preparation of $4,000 from the New
Jersey State legislature for small
fruit investigation in Atlantic County,
now under way at Hammonton.
"Other important results secured by
the County Board include the control
of hog cholera through annual anti
disease campaigns conducted in con-
junction with the State Bureau of Ami
NAL Industry. No epidemic of this
disease has been in the county within
four years.
Atlantic County has also made a
name for itself in the production OF
certified sweet potato seed, Is farmers
under the direction of Mr.. Eldred,
County Agent, annually growing 100
acres of certified seed of the Yellow
and Big Stem Jersey varieties.
"That the Atlantic County Home
Bureau, with several hundred mem
bers in the County. has been success
full in its achievement is indicated by
the record made during Agriculture
Week at Trenton last winter, when
Atlantic County won first honors
against nine competitive county ex-
hints"