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Supplement to Hampshire County Farmers' Monthly, Vol. Vll, No. 11 



S Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation News ^ 



VOL. II. No. 11. 



BOSTON, MASS. 



NOVEMBER 1922 



WHARTON NEW PRESIDENT 



Former Vice President Unanimously 



Chosen to Head State 



Federation. 



One of the outstanding farmers of 

 the state became President of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Farm Bureau Federation 

 when the Executive Committee at 

 their meeting in Worcester, Novem- 

 ber 3rd, picked William P. Wharton 

 of Groton to fill out the unexpired 

 term of former President Hinckley. 



Farm Bureau men all over the 

 state know Mr. Wharton as a man of 

 sound, independent judgment and un- 

 impeachable character. He has a 

 wide acquaintance in all walks of life. 

 He is a most successful farmer, yet 

 he can see well beyond the stone walls 

 that mark the boundaries of his own 

 farm. 



The Massachusetts Farm Bureau 

 Federation is to be congratulated 

 that a man of Mr. Wharton's ability 

 is willing to shoulder the responsibili- 

 ties of the presidency. 



3,700,000 Bales Pooled 



F. R. Shanks, of the American 

 Cotton Growers' Exchange, states 

 that 3,700,000 bales of cotton are now 

 under contract for co-operative mar- 

 keting in nine southern states and 

 that this will be increased to con- 

 siderably more than 4,000,000 bales 

 in 1923. 



CO-OPS SAVE $10,000 WEEKLY 



Co-operative creameries in Minne- 

 sota are saving $10,000 every seven 

 days by shipping their products at 

 car-lot freight rates through the Min- 

 nesota Co-Operative Creameries As- 

 sociation, Inc., direct to their New 

 York sales office. Seventy cars of 

 co-operative creamery butter are 

 moving to the eastern market every 

 week under the association market- 

 ing plan. These cars carry more 

 than 2,000,000 pounds of butter. 



Your Farm Bureau is worth a good 

 deal more to you than the $5 it costs. 



GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS 



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MY PORRlDGfl! 



YOUNG BOOSTS BUREAU 



Speaker of House Praises Farmers' 



Organization; Bristol Co. Bureau 



Runs Successful Fair. 



"Every farmer ought to belong to 

 the Farm Bureau and loyally support 

 it," said Speaker Young of the House 

 of Representatives, in the course of a 

 rousing talk at the Bristol County 

 Farm Bureau Fair on October 12th. 

 He said that the Farm Bureau has 

 won the respect of business men and 

 legislators by its sane and practical 

 program. 



The Farm Bureau Fair is an out- 

 standing event in Bristol County, 

 because it is a real farmers' fair in 

 management, exhibits and attend- 

 ance. It was featured by some of 

 the best corn shown anywhere in the 

 state and a splendid display of apples. 

 The exhibit by the Bristol County 

 school boys themselves was worth go- 

 ing far to see. The committee in 

 charge was appointed by the Farm 

 Bureau directors and had the loyal 

 co-operation of County Agent Ide, 

 Head Master Gilbert and the other 

 masters of the school. In addition 

 to being a credit, agriculturally, to 

 Bristol County, the Fair was a suc- 

 cess financially. The county is 

 looking forward to a bigger and 

 better one next year. 



BRIDGEWATER MEN SMILE 



Reports at Annual Banquet Show 



Good Surplus After Dividends. 



Hundred Thousand Business, 



Smiles wreathed the faces of mem- 

 bers of the East Bridgewater Farm- 

 ers' Exchange at their annual meet- 

 ing on Oct. 17th. The smiles were 

 justified by the check each man had 

 in his pocket as a dividend from his 

 business with the Exchange during 

 the last year. The largest of these 

 checks amounted to several hundred 

 dollars. And the best of it was that 

 the Exchange had salted away a nice 

 little reserve in addition to the divi- 

 dends. 



A hundred and seventy-five en- 

 thusiastic men sat down to supper 

 together, and later listened to the 

 annual reports, and to short talks by 

 representatives of the Agricultural 

 College, the Extension Service and 

 the State Farm Bureau Federation. 

 The manager's report showed a con- 

 stantly growing business, totalling al- 

 most $100,000 in 1922, done at a 

 very small overhead, and at prices 

 satisfactory to the membership. The 

 Exchange has erected an inexpensive 

 storehouse this year, paying for it 

 out of the profits of the business. 



HEAVEN HELP GOLDILOCKS WHEN THE BEARS GET MAD ENOUGH Ask your neighbor to join. 



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