HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



NEWS OF THE FARM BUREAU 



STATE ACTIVITIES 



Bankers Back Farmers 



Massachusetts banks are becoming 

 more interested in doing business with 

 farmers, according to reports from many 

 of the Farm Bureau counties. Plymouth 

 and Middlesex are outstanding examples 

 at the present time. The Plymouth 

 County Trust Company and the Waltham 

 Trust Company are proving especially 

 willing to cooperate. No reputable, de- 

 serving farmer is being turned away. 



"Thio is as it should be," says Howard 

 S. Russell, President of the Massachu- 

 setts Farm Bureau Federation. "The 

 farmer should have bank credit, if he 

 needs it, just like any other business 

 man." 



"I recently ran across a Farm Bureau 

 director," continued Mr. Russell, "who 

 owns a splendid farm absolutely clear, 

 and other property, too. Yet this man, 

 when he wanted to borrow a few dollars 

 always had to have some other man en- 

 dorse his note. 



"Today, the farmer is getting the rec- 

 ognition from other business men that he 

 should have had a long time ago. The 

 Farm Bureau can be credited with bring- 

 ing agriculture into a new place in the 

 estimation of everybody." 



communities throughout the State will 

 probably be arranged during the fall. 



Government Harness Still Available 



Demand for Government harness has 

 fallen off somewhat since the spring 

 months. Real bargains in this kind of 

 equipment are available by writing to the 

 State office. The price of the wheel am- 

 bulance harness is 541.75, and the am- 

 bulance lead harness sells for $34.75. A 

 heavier harness, known as the "Engin- 

 eer's", is al.so available at $41.75 a set. 

 Collars, halters and other harness parts 

 are also sold at low prices. 



The 1923 grain pool, which closes July 

 20, promises to nearly double the success 

 of last year's venture, owing to the closest 

 cooperation between the Farm Bureaus 

 and the Eastern States Farmers' Ex- 

 change. Solicitors report no trouble in 

 securing signed contracts from dairymen 

 who used the open formula ration in the 

 spring. The addition of an egg mash has 

 -enlisted the interest of the poultrymen as 

 well. 



Farm Bureaus are unquestionably in- 

 terested in forestry. The farm wood lot 

 is a continual source of revenue, and it 

 can be made an even greater asset. Such, 

 at least, is the opinion of State Farm 

 Bureau officers, who saw to it that the 

 Federation was represented at a recent 

 meeting called by the State Forestry As- 

 sociation, when first steps were taken to- 

 ward the creation of a conservation coun- 

 cil. Fourteen different groups had a part 

 in the meeting. The plan is to hold in- 

 formal conferences once or twice a year 

 for the purpose of correlating programs. 



Each Farm Bureau county in the State 

 is urged to be represented at the North- 

 eastern Farm Bureau Conference at 

 Albany, August 2 and -3. The program 

 is in the hands of Secretary E. Victor 

 Underwood and officers of the New York 

 Federation, who are the hosts. This will 

 be the fourth annual conference held in 

 this section of the country. It is open 

 to all Farm Bureau members who are in- 

 terested enough to attend. 



NATIONAL FARM 



Officers of the New Hampshire Farm 

 Bureau Federation have extended an in- 

 vitation to Secretary F. D. Griggs, of 

 Massachusetts, to speak at four field days 

 in the northern counties of the Granite 

 State during the week of August 19. 

 The counties scheduled thus far are Graf- 

 ton, Coos, Belknap and Hillsboro. 



Executive committees in the various 

 counties, after having held regular meet- 

 ings up to this time, have adjourned for 

 the summer months of July and August. 

 The next regular meetings will be held 

 early in September, when a number of 

 new activities will be launched. Among 

 other things, a series of Farm Bureau 

 motion picture exhibits in most of the 



Each county is being asked once more 

 to organize a Farm Bureau speakers' 

 corps. Requests are being received con- 

 tinually from boards of trade, men's 

 clubs, Granges and church organizations 

 for some one who can tell them about 

 the Farm Bureau movement and what 

 it has accomplished. The national or- 

 ganization already has such a speakers 

 corps in operation. The best men in the 

 counties are to be used by the State Fed- 

 eration. 



Farm Insurance for Farmers 



More and more insurance is being 

 placed by Farm Bureau members with 

 the Federation, including automobile, fire, 

 theft, and liability, as well as farm in- 

 surance. The total for the latter, writ- 

 ten during the past four months, is 

 $46,850. Inquiries are coming in con- 

 stantly. President Howard S. Russell is 

 'continuing to act as agent, but the busi- 

 ness is being done at the State office. 

 There are savings here well worth look- 

 ing into. 



BUREAU NEWS 



Co-operative /Marketing Helps Railroads 



The new system of cooperative market- 

 ing will go far towards solving the rail- 

 road problem in America. 



Speaking before the eleventh annual 

 meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of 

 the United States in New York on May 

 10, O. E. Bradfute, President of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, de- 

 clared that the farmer had found his 

 own solution to the peak load question 

 in transportation. 



According to President Bradfute the 

 farmers' new system of cooperative mar- 

 keting whereby the products of the farm 

 are moved into points of consumption in 

 an orderly manner will give the railroads 

 opportunity to move the great staple 

 farm crops gradually from the farms to 

 the distribution centers and thus avoid 

 the peak loads and the attendant car 

 shortage problem which break the rail- 

 roads' back. 



Mr. Bradfute challenged the business 

 men and railroad executives to join hands 

 with the farmer in helping him to perfect 

 a cooperative marketing system provid- 

 ing for the storage and financing of farm 

 products on the farms. About one- 

 twelfth of these farm products properly 

 stored and adequately financed on the 

 farms can then be moved into points of 

 consumption each month. 



Have You Paid Yours? 



"I believe in paying my dues on time," 

 said an Ashby Farm Bureau member the 

 other day. "I figure I am going to pay 

 them anyway, so why should I wait until 

 along toward the end of the year?". 

 This man has exactly the right idea. The 

 national office, especially, is suffering 

 from lack of income, due to the large 

 number of delinquent members through- 

 out the country. Massachusetts members 

 are urged to pay now, if they have not 

 already done .so. 



More About Daylight Saving 



"I am surprised at the large number 

 of city people who complain to me about 

 daylight saving," says William P. Whar- 

 ton of Groton, chairman of the Federation 

 Legislative Committee. Mr. Wharton is 

 sincerely of the opinion that the present 

 law would be repealed if the que.=tion 

 were once put before the voters of the 

 State. A conference of Farm Bureau 

 leaders. Grange executives and railroad 

 men is to be held this month, with the 

 idea of invoking the initiative and refer- 

 endum. 



