Smyrna times., 1926-01-13
FARMERS EVENT NEXT WEEK

State Farm Bureau and State Corn
Show Both Will be Attractive at
DOver-Fine Program Arranged
Plans have been completed for the
| sixth annual meeting of the Delaware
State Farm Bureau Federation to be
held in the Dover Century Club next
Wednesday, January 20, according to
an announcement following a meeting
of a special committee held in the
State Office on Monday of this week.
This committee meeting was called
by John D. Reynolds, president of the
State Farm Bureau, and was attend
ed by w. V. Cosden, vice-president of
the State Organization, Ed. Willim,
president of the Kent County Farm
Bureau, and Frank F. Yearsley, pres
ident of the New Castle County Farm
Bureau. The annual meeting of the
Delaware State Farm Bureau this
year will be held in connection with
the State Corn Show, and a special
Invitation is being extended to all the
farmers and their families throughout
the state to attend these combined
events. The business session of the
Farm Bureau meeting will open
promptly at 1870, on the morning of
January 20, in the Century Club
Rooms in Dover, and the first item of
business will be the reports of the
various committees and officers of
both the county and state organiza-
tlons. Following these reports an ac-
count of the annual meeting in Chica-
go of the American Farm Bureau
Federation will be given by John D.
Reynolds who attended this meeting as
a representative of the Delaware
Farm Bureau. The next subject of
business nature will be the election of
officers for the ensuing year, and fol-
lowing this procedure short reports on
extension activities and their rela-
tiOnship to the Farm Bureau organ
izatiOn will be given by County
Agents R. o. Bausman, Russell E.
Wilson, and NJ. c.. Vaughn.
Two Speakers to Address Meeting
1t has also been announced that
DR.. c. L. Benner of the Department
of Farm Economics of the University
OF Delaware will deliver an address
on the relation of agricultural eco
nomics to the farming conditions as
they exist in Delaware and other
states at the present time. In order
to show the value and Importance of
boys and girls club work in each of
the three counties, it was suggested
ing conducted be given by a bows
team and girls team to be selected
by the county club agent. During the
noon hour, lunch will be served in the
Century Club Rooms by the Dover
Club girls at 4 nominal price per plate
The chief speaker at the evening ses-
sion, which begins at 7.3O, will be c.
K. TitlOw Secretary of the Federal
Land Bank of Baltimore, and plans
have been completed for making this
a Joint program with the nineteenth
annual meeting of the Delaware Corn
Growers Association.
state Corn Show Joins With Bureau
The first event on the evening pro-
gram will be music by the Dover
Junior Orchestra, after which the
awards of the State Corn Show will
be announced by George L. Schuster.
secretary of the Corn Growers Asso-
citation. Following another selection
by the Junior Orchestra, Mr.. Titlow
will deliver an address which will be
well worth hearing by all the farmers
and business men of the State. The
officers of the Delaware State Farm
Bureau Federation are making extern
sive plans for one of the most prof.
table annual meetings ever held in
this state. They trust therefore that
as many farmers and their families
as possible can arrange to attend the
various sessions this year will plan to
go to Dover next Wednesday, January
70, and help make this annual meet
ing a profitable and successful event
IN the history of this great agricul-
tural organization.