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By MRS. FRED J. PUTTCAMP. Bureau County 



r'^V k E ARE Farm Bureau members because it 

 ^^yi/ wouldn't pay not to belong to an organization 

 O that has kept farmers pulling together during 

 the pressing times through which we have just passed. I 

 say "passed" for the Farm Bureau in numerous ways has 

 been the force which has scared away "Old Man Depres- 

 sion" and continues to bring about conditions which will 

 keep him away. 



Farm Bureau is organized not only for our menfolks 

 on the farm but takes note of the Home Bureau, the 

 Farm Bureau auxiliary, and its splendid and growing work 

 among the women folks in the country. It also supports 



the boys' and girls' 4-H Club work and junior farm club 

 efforts which are putting agriculture on a secure basis for 

 the future by training the young folks of our farm fam- 

 ilies as their leaders for the coming years. There is a 

 place in Farm Bureau for all the family old and young. 



Its insurance branch is a phase which our family ap- 

 preciates and makes use of — both life and auto insur- 



ance, which arc sound financially as well as reasonably 

 priced. I 



Farm Bureau has organized farmers so that they are a 

 force to be reckoned with where the making of laws is 

 concerned; Farm Bureau legislation has made possible the 

 lowering of taxes which were such a "bug-bear" to us. 



It has been influential in bringing about lower rates of 

 interest on federal farm loans, making it possible for 

 many of our families (that includes us, and we appreciate 

 it) to get on their feet again financially and hold the 

 farm homes which they have striven through the years to 

 earn. 



Farm Bureau has stood back of our administration which 

 can truly be said to be "farmer-conscious" and which 

 has the furthering of the farmers' interest at heart. 



In fact, with all of its benefits, a very few of which I 

 have mentioned. Farm Bureau has been the means in more 

 than one sense of "keeping us on the farm" of which there 

 is no better place the wide world over, or at least if there 

 is we haven't seen it. 



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By JACOB OUWENGA, Cook County 



yf BECAME a member of the Farm Bureau when it 



ty was organized here in Cook county, Illinois, about 



1920, realizing that it was an organization that 



could solve the farmers' problems. I aim to continue as an 



active member as long as I may have the privilege. 



I believe in the principles of the Farm Bureau and the 

 sincerity and unselfish, wholehearted support of its leaders. 

 Through such an organization, the farmer is able to have 



a voice in his own destiny, which he had always been 

 denied. By education through organization his eyes are 

 being opened to the fact that he is not a "rube" nor a 

 "hay seed, " as he is often called, but a necessary cog in the 

 welfare of the country. He is realizing a nice profit by 

 co-operative buying and selling, fairer taxation, and help- 

 ful legislation through organization. | 



No farmer can afford not to be a member of the Farm 

 Bureau. ' 



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