The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-20
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FARM BUREAU NIGHT
MARCH IA, WILL SEE
BIG RADIO HOOKUP

A gigantic nationwide farmers
mass meeting participated in by the
more than million and quarter
members of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, together with other
invited organized agricultural groups,
is announced for the evening of
Thursday, March IA.
At $50 P. NJ, Central Standard
Time, on that night, in $4,000 rural
communities, Farm Bureau folks will
gather round the radio loud speakers
to share in program which is to be
broadcast from the Chicago studio of
the National Broadcast Corporation.
With Sam H. Thompson, president
of the American Farm Bureau in the
chair, a community Farm Bureau
program such as no community Farm
Bureau has ever before been privi-
lodged to enjoy, will be placed on the
air.
Personages of national reputation,
representing every phase of the ex-
tremely various agricultural industry,
will talk. Included will be music and
other entertainment features, richly
rejecting the simplicity and the sin
cerity of country life. Definite an
nouncement of names and other pro-
gram details will be made later. .
To carry the program to the folks
out in the hinter land, N. B. C. has
arranged hook-up of telephone
wires and ether waves more extensive
than any ever before made, except
for political conventions and some
addresses of President Coolidge.
In country school house, in cross
roads churches, in the town hall, the
court house, from Minnesota to Texas,
and from Massachusetts, Bay to the
Golden Gate, farmers with their fam
lilies will be gathered to listen in. If
radio instruments are lacking, an Of
fer has been made by the Radio Cor
poration of America to loan the neces-
sary set on request from properly
authorized Farm Bureau Leaders.
To share in the affair, national
Farm Bureau officials will invite
members of kindred agricultural or
CARNATIONS. The National Livestock
Producers Association with it's mem
bership of Cattlemen throughout the
middle west and the plains states,
will be one of the Farm Bureaus
guests. Farm boys and girls who
belong to the National All Clubs
will be second invited group. Farm
ers' cooperative shipping and buying
associations, the National Grange
with its extensive membership, and
many others, are to be sought to help
swell this radio mass meeting of ag-
riculture.
Farm Bureau leaders promoting the
plan, vision the aggregate audience
as the largest assembly of farmers
ever brought together at any one
time.
Explaining the idea of the meet
ing, M. S. Winder, executive secretary
of the American Farm Bureau FEEDER
alton, stated that in $4,000 country
communities, Farm Bureau Night"
is an established institution in the
social and educational life of the
farmers.
"In the rural sections" he said,
prayer meeting night, choir practice
night and Farm Bureau night are
close contenders for the attention and
the interest of the populace. Once
a month, usually on Thursday, the
progressive farmers with their wives
and their children, journey to the
meeting place, there to discuss their
particular problems.
maybe it is question of restor-
ing the fertility of the soil, perhaps
a drainage project, or study of how
best to market the years crop of
pigs or potatoes. Or again the eve
ning's discussion may deal with I'M
fair burdensome taxes, the cost of
a now HIGHWAY hridpo Or the con-