TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART V 395 



banking facilities of the State we should be able to develop a 

 mutually satisfactory arrangement whereby our present banking 

 system should be able to efficiently serve this need. We hope 

 this can be done as above outlined ; at least it must be understood 

 that in some manner the question of financing the farmer during 

 the consumptive part of the year as well as the productive part 

 of the year must and will be arranged. 



That a Bureau of Research designed to study the drastic 

 fluctuations in live stock and grain marketing is necessary in 

 order that ignorance of cause and effect might not be instrumen- 

 tal in making an otherwise well planned system of marketing in- 

 effective. Through the influence of the Federation, provisions 

 have been made in the next annual budget of the Iowa Experi- 

 ment Station for a substantial increase in the funds available for 

 studies in the economic phases of Iowa farming, particularly mar- 

 keting, land tenure, and co-operative organization. We must 

 supplement this work by every means at our command. 



Recommend the appointment of a committee to study co-opera- 

 tive marketing and encouraging establishment of co-operative 

 elevators and shipping associations that can correlate and be- 

 come a part of the marketing plan for grain and live stock, and 

 that the plan or scheme of any organization to build along imma- 

 ture ideas should be discouraged until the plan to be recom_- 

 mended by the Committee of Seventeen has been made public. 

 This will probably mean a co-operative marketing plan for the 

 entire country. A demand should be made of all farmers' organ- 

 izations that have accepted representation on the Committee of 

 Seventeen to give it loyal support and whole-heartedly support 

 the plan when once put into effect. 



Recommend that the loyal farmer members of each County 

 Farm Bureau inform themselves fully on the aims and objects of 

 the organizations in order that their services may be available in 

 filling speaking dates in the townships where the demand is so 

 great that men and limited funds make it impossible for the Fed- 

 eration to meet them. 



Recommend to the officers of each County Farm Bureau that 

 closer and more loyal co-operation with the County Agent and 

 his work is most desirable and a more business-like method of 

 handling the county Farm Bureau finances is essential. The 

 careless manner of collecting dues has brought about many com- 

 plications. It has deprived the Iowa Federation of its just rep- 



