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reau Federation, and that plenty of funds should be available for 

 its use, and that the Farm Bureau membership should be increased. 

 A committee was appointed to make plans for the raising of a $250,- 

 000.00 emergency fund for the Federation at once. The opening 

 drive for this fund and for one hundred thousand Farm Bureau 

 members opened in Hardin County on September 22d. and the fol- 

 lowing week in Butler County. The Farm Bureau membership is 

 now standardized at $5.00 per year over tlie entire State, and no 

 man can subscribe to the Federation special fund unless he becomes 

 a 1^'arm Bureau member. 



STATISTICS ON THE IOWA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE FOR THE 



FARM BUREAU 



Number of Iowa Farm Bureaus 100 



Total membership January 1, 1920 104,388 



Average membership 1,044 



Number of Bureaus with more than a thousand 



members 53 



Over Two Thousand — Benton 1 



Less than five hundred 3 



County with highest percentage of members — 



—Dickinson 98% 



Membership on July 1, 1919 30,600 



Total new members secured in the drive 73,788 



Increase 242% 



Duration of Drive — (13) Thirteen weeks or (52) 



Fifty-two days — Average members secured 



each day 1,423 



Total contributions to the Federation Special 



Fund $350,000 



The Secretary has attended and spoken at sixty-four meetings 

 in the State since May 1st, and reached 38,000 people with an ex- 

 planation of the Farm Bureau program of work besides a large 

 number of meetings which have been attended by other officers of 

 the Federation. 



The chairman of the Marketing and Transportation Committee 

 is also a member of the Producers' Committee of fifteen that meets 

 monthly with the packers. 



A movement is on at the present time to get Iowa's three hundred 

 co-operative livestock shipping associations to federate into a State 

 organization and later into a National organization in order that 

 they may standardize their methods of handling stock and that they 

 may get the best service possible at the market centers. This was 

 done at Chicago on December 3d, and the National president was 

 selected from Iowa in the person of Knute Espe, of Story county. 



