PART V 



Report of Secretary of Iowa Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion at the Annual Convention, Des 

 Moines, January 5-6, 1921 



E. H. Cunningham 



The past year has been one of ever increasing activities 

 on the part of the officers and directors of the organization. The 

 beginning of the year found the organization with a large number 

 of members which had been induced into membership by a well 

 organized and systematically conducted drive. The first step 

 was to cement this membership into a useful body by building 

 local units in each township. This work was successfully per- 

 formed under the direction of J. W. Coverdale, who planned and 

 executed the state-wide drive for memberships. So well was this 

 work planned and carried out that in less than three months 

 approximately seventeen hundred townships in the State were 

 organized into useful agencies that have been instrumental in 

 carrying forward under the County Agent as local leader a work 

 which is developing a community spirit in Iowa that will in the 

 near future give the rural resident of the State the distinction of 

 being the most creditable type of citizen that American genius 

 has developed. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



The Executive Committee has held eleven meetings during 

 the year. The work of the Federation has grown so rapidly that 

 it necessitates frequent meetings of the Board. Every member 

 of the committee has given the most loyal support to the President 

 and to the Secretary. The work is becoming more and more 

 burdensome each month and the time given by the Executive Com- 

 mittee members without compensation is liable to prove a hardship, 

 and certain it is that the work cannot go on in an efficient manner 

 at such a sacrifice for any considerable length of time. 



