The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-01-11
Farm Bureau Annual Meeting At
St. Paul January is to 10 Attracts

Heralded by President J. F. Reed,
Executive Secretary j. S. Jones and
other officials as the most important
meeting of its kind ever held in the
state, the ninth annual meeting of
the Minnesota Farm Bureau Fedora
ton will be held at st. Paul, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
January 16, II, Is and 10.
Important matters of policy for the
coming year will be threshed out and
determined at this meeting by COM
mittees of farmers representing ev-
cry county in the state. Decisions of
policy at this meeting will have far
reaching effect in Minnesota public
affairs.
Speakers for and against proposed
State Constitutional Amendment No.
/, to be decided at the fall elections,
will present both sides of this con-
test to the states farmers in con-
vention assembled and will ask for
the support of the Farm Bureau in
the forthcoming campaign.
State Representative Oscar A.
Swenson, of Nicollet county, will pre-
sent to the meeting the side of the
proponents of State Constitutional
Amendment No. /, which, if enacted
into law, would provide for expendi-
ture of one-third of the state gaso-
line tax by county boards on county
roads.
j. E. Reynolds, of Mankato, will
present to this meeting the case of
those opposed to this proposed amend
ment.
While the friends and foes of the
gas tax amendment are fighting for
a decision from the farmers, other
highly important matters of policy
for the year will be in process of
determination by representative farm
er committees.
Taken altogether, it is expected
that this big meeting will make his
tory in the agricultural life of the
state.
Nationally known speakers will adj
dress various sessions of the conven-
ton and every phase of present-day
farm life will be covered by an auth
Ority in that field.
c. H. Burnell of Winnipeg, Presi-
dent of the Manitoba Wheat Growers,
considered the most successful CO.
operative marketing institution in the
world, will speak Tuesday afternoon
at University Farm. Mr.. Burnell, one
of the leading members of the Inter-
national Wheat Marketing Commit
tee, recently has returned from Aus
tralia.
DR.. H. c. Taylor, of the Institute
of Research and Land Economics of
Northwestern University, Chicago,
is another international figure ap-
pearing on the live program. Dr..
Taylor also will speak Tuesday af-
ternoon at University Farm.
A score more of almost equally
prominent men and women appear or
the three-day program.
The annual meeting of the State
Farm Mutual Insurance Company
will be held Monday, January Is, at
the st. Francis Hotel, with Director
Louis kelehan presiding, and will
serve as a curtain raiser to the main
convention, which opens Tuesday
morning, January II, at University
Farm, st. Paul.
Wednesday, January IS, the ses-
sions of the annual meeting will he
moved from University Farm to the
House Chamber in the State Capitol,
St. Paul, where all sessions will be
held Wednesday and Thursday JAN
nary 10. Here, and at the Old Cap
itol, will take place the numerous
committee meetings and also the an
nual election of officers which takes
place Thursday afternoon.