70 New Members And A 

 Rsh Fry In Clarlc 



Farm Paper Editors 



Back AAA Program 



THOS. DSUMMOKD 



FRAKK BOHN 



The Clark County Farm Bureau added 

 70 new members during its recent 12-day 

 membership drive, reports R. E. Apple, 

 farm adviser. The campaign was a con- 

 test between the east and west sides of 

 the county with Thomas Drummond. 

 county organization director, in charge 

 of the west half and Frank Bohn in 

 charge of the east. 



The campaign followed an oyster sup- 

 per and pep meeting held in Marshall. 

 The east side of the county wrote 40 

 members and the west side 30. The win- 

 ning side was treated to a fish fry. All 

 new members as well as solicitors who 

 had written at least one member were 

 invited. O. D. Brissenden of the I. A. A. 

 Organization Department spoke at the 

 meetings which started and ended the 

 campaign. 



"We are well pleased with the results 

 and most of our men say they have more 

 prospects now than when they started." 

 writes Mr. .\pple. "This addition brings 

 our membership up to more than 500. 

 The outstanding feature of the drive 

 was the work of Frank Bohn and Alfred 

 Seidel who signed 12 new members in 

 one day." 



Consumer's Dollar ^; : • 



(Continued from page 6) •' ~ 

 ' 'peration May 1, 1933 and has returned 

 profits to producers in the form of 

 patronage dividends at the rate of 

 nearly Sl.OOO per month, which will 

 amount to approximately $24,000 by 

 May 1, igss. 



The Producers Creamery of Craw- 

 fordsville. Indiana, returned to pro- 

 ducers in eight years more than $300.- 

 000. In eleven years the Columbus, 

 Indiana co-operative plant returned to 

 patrons $580,421.98. This is an average 

 of $52,738 per year. 



The foregoing evidence clearly shows 

 it pays to co-operate. Therefore, every 

 patron of a co-operative creamery 

 should make an effort to induce his 

 non-member friends and neighbors to 

 co-operate with him. 



Twenty-eight farm paper editors meet- 

 ing in Washington recently drew up a 

 10 point statement of their convictions 

 in which they expressed support for: 

 (1) balanced production through crop 

 adjustment and parity prices for farm 

 products, (2) reduction of distribution 

 costs by commerce and industry to pre- 

 vent undue increases in cost of living. 

 (3) more aggressive efforts to develop 

 non-food uses for farm products, (4> 

 more efficiency in crop and animal pro- 

 duction, (5) encouragement of the co- 

 operative movement among farmers by 

 government and recognition of all con- 

 structively-minded farm organizations. 

 (6) intensive efforts to increase foreign 

 trade, (7) leadership which promote.^ 

 economic democracy and national unity 

 in opposition to forces which tend to 

 confuse and disunite farmers, (8) assist- 

 ance to tenant farmers in becoming home 

 owners, (9) belief that .America's eco- 

 nomic and social future rests primarily 

 upon agriculture and that farmers must 

 continue to uphold and preserve our most 

 treasured ideals and traditions, (10) ap- 

 preciation and praise of Secretary Wal- 

 lace and his aids for their intelligent, 

 fearless and aggressive leadership. 



SisnificftBt is thii whole-hearted backinjr of the 

 program for farm recovery sponsored and supnorteH 

 by the Farm Bureau movement by the leadins: farm 

 paper e-titora of the country who kro-a- far more 

 fbout africulture and its problems than do metro- 

 politan newspaper editors, and who for the most 

 part have the farmerii* interests at heart. — Editor. 



County Board Buys 



Terracing Equipment 



At the request of the County .Agricul- 

 tural Agent the County Board of Rev- 

 enue of Tallapoosa County, Alabama, 

 has purchased tractors, terracing and 

 grading equipment. "If you want to 

 have any real estate left to tax you had 

 better kuy some tractors and equipment 

 and help farmers terrace their land." 

 said County Agent Fletcher N. Farring- 

 ton. 



The (bounty Board complied and is 

 charging farm owners actual cost for the 

 work, including enough for depreciation 

 of the machinery. The cost is about $1.68 

 an acre. More than 7,000 acres have 

 been terraced and the plan is to continue 

 until all the 100,000 of Tallapoosa Coun- 

 ty's cultivated acres are done. The plan 

 permits the owner of a thousand dollar 

 farm to have the work done for hjm by 

 a $4,300 outfit, reports Country Home. 



A request for a copy and subscription 

 for the I. A. .K. RECORD was recently 

 received from Navroji Dinshawji Rang- 

 wala, Kajambar Broach, India. 



With Our County Farm 

 Bureau Presidents 



J. E. MtTKiniRT 



JE. MUMMERT. president of the 

 Fulton County Farm Bureau, re- 

 sides on and operates a 460 acre 

 grain and live stock farm in Wood- 

 land Township, near Astoria. 

 Mr. Mummert was one of a com- 

 mittee of five 

 men. who in 1916 

 canvassed Ful- 

 ton County to 

 secure the 

 minimum of ten 

 members for 

 each township 

 to organize a 

 Farm Bureau 

 and employ a 

 Farm Adviser. 

 Mr. Miunmert 

 has served as a 

 member of the 

 executive com- 

 mittee continu- 

 ously since that time and in January. 

 1928. was elected president, in which 

 capacity he is still serving. 



While Mr. Mummert's farming op- 

 erations have been diversified, the de- 

 velopment of good seed com has been 

 his specialty. He was crowned "Com 

 King of America" in 1920. having won 

 Grand Championship on Single Elar 

 at the International Show in Chicago. 

 .\gain in 1?26 he won the same honor. 

 Mr. Munimert has the distinction of 

 being the only farmer to win Grand 

 Championship on Single E^r. Ten 

 E^rs and Bushel Ejitry at the Inter- 

 national. He was in the first class 

 U925> of those recognized as Ma.«ter 

 Farmers in Illinois. 



Mrs. Mummert has been honored 

 by being made Master Homemaker. 

 and has been active in Home Bureau 

 work. 



In addition to his farming oper- 

 ations and Farm Bureau serv ces. Mr. 

 Mummert has found time for various 

 other activities. He served eight 

 years as supervisor for his towtwhip. 

 and for two years was chairman of 

 the county board of supervisors. For 

 many years he served as a director 

 of the bank at Astoria. He is now 

 serving his twenty-first year as super- 

 intendent of his local Church Bible 

 School, is chairman of the church 

 board, and for several years was 

 president of the County Sunday 

 School Association. He is a member 

 of ttie Astoria Kiwanis Club, and 

 Chairman of it>; Agricultural Com- 

 mittee. 



The Mummerts believe in educa- 

 tion. Their son. DeVere. is a grad- 

 uate of the University of Illinois, and 

 is at present teaching vocational aff-i- 

 culttu^ at Dwight. 111. The dau^ier. 

 Maxine. wiU graduate in June from 

 the Honie lAX>nom°cs Department of 

 the University of IlUnois. 



Mr. Mummert was elected chair- 

 man for his community on the Coun- 

 ty Wheat Control Association: like- 

 wise, for the Corn-Hog Association, 

 and is acting treasurer for each of 

 these Organizations. He is also a men^ 

 ber of the County Debt Adjustment 

 Committee. • 



MAY, 1935 



