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Farm Federation for Tax Reduction 
New York Farm Bureau Holds Annual Meeting—Lee Reelected 
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TF AN annual farm bureau federation 
A meeting may be considered as a cross 
section of sane and progressive farm 
opinion and outlook—as I think it may— 
in New York State there is evidently a 
rather general feeling that “things have 
been as bad as possible, now they are on 
the up-grade.” The hundred farmers 
from fifty counties who attended the 
annual meeting of the New York State 
Farm Bureau Federation at Syracuse - on 
November 6 and 7 seemed unanimous in 
this. Farm bureau membership follows 
the fortunes of farmers and in some 
counties during the past year they got 
down to bed rock, but, as one delegate 
declared “that’s where you have to get 
to build a skyscraper.” 
Service on the Increase 
Fortunately farm bureau service did 
not decrease with membership. In fact. 
President Enos Lee, in his opening 
address, stated “the county agent leader’s 
office can give you statistics to prove that 
more service was rendered by the county 
farm bureaus this past year than any 
year since bureaus were organized, and 
fifty per cent of this service was given to 
persons not members of the organization. 
This same spirit of service has been 
dominant in the federation. By the way, 
this continued service is now being 
By MARY K. FENNELL 
recognized in many counties by many 
new members. 
The federation's place in New York 
agriculture was defined by the president 
in these words “I emphasize the same 
statements I have made many times, that 
the farm bureau must be an educational 
service organization, that legislation, co¬ 
operative marketing, and other panaceas 
are not the only means to agricultural 
success, but we can, through working and 
thinking together, keep this fundamental 
industry in its proper relationship to all 
other activities.” 
The report of secretary E. V. Under¬ 
wood and of the committees on marketing, 
transportation, legislation, reforestation, 
and T. B. eradication summarized the 
federation’s activities during the year 
past. 
The committee on marketing reported 
on two important investigations, one into 
the opportunities for marketing New 
York’s poultry products through the 
Atlantic Coast Poultry Producers Co¬ 
operative Association, and the other into 
the canning crops marketing situation. 
After the first investigation the com¬ 
mittee refused to recommend the Atlantic 
Coast Association to New York poultry- 
men until certain changes in policy and 
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management had been made. These 
having been made, the committee in its 
report offered for consideration the 
organization’s plan of taking shipments of 
eggs on trial for tw r o months for New 
York poultrymen, charging them one per 
cent more per dozen for sales than by 
members paid. 
Also at the suggestion of this com¬ 
mittee, their report stated, certain changes 
were made in the New York State 
Canning Crops Cooperative Association. 
As to the future of cooperative marketing 
for canning crops, the committee had this 
to say: “We believe there is need for a 
bargaining organization to handle canning- 
crops, particularly tomatoes and possibly 
cherries, and that the experience of the 
*past two years should be used as a basis 
for developing a strong association for the 
future.” 
Coverdale the Main Speaker 
The chief speaker of the meeting was 
John Coverdale, secretary of the new 
$26,000,000 Grain Marketing Company 
of Chicago. Being grain users, rather 
than grain growers, the delegates were 
interested in the possibilities of the 
patronage dividend plan which, Mr. 
Coverdale stated, is an important feature 
of the new cooperative association. 
H. E. Babcock of Ithaca, who followed 
Mr. Coverdale, explained that New York 
State farmers are set up, through the 
G. L. F. Exchange, to take advantage of 
this plan if it proves practicable. Mr. 
Babcock talked on cooperative buying. 
Carl Ladd, director of extension at the 
state college of agriculture, talked on 
farm organization, particularly cooper¬ 
ative marketing. “ We have these assets,” 
he said, “four or five years of successful 
effort, trained management, and some 
working capital. Our liabilities are these: 
Some local organizations are very much 
over-capitalized, the membership expects 
too much; there are too few leaders. In 
the farm bureau, as well as in the co¬ 
operative associations, we need a much 
larger rotation of effort, more men who 
step up from the membership to become 
leaders and then take their place in the 
ranks again where with their experience 
they can do as much good, or more, than 
“up front.” 
Resolutions Include Tax Reduction 
The general property tax, as it applies 
to farmers, was discussed with keen 
interest by the delegates after a short 
talk on the subject by H. E. McKenzie of 
Walton. Two of the seven resolutions 
passed were concerned with taxes. It 
was recommended that the agricultural 
conference board give careful attention 
to the state and local tax system and that 
a united program of tax revision be 
agreed upon. Another resolution stated 
“we are opposed to any further issues of 
state or county bonds for road con¬ 
struction and recommend that the users 
of the roads be taxed through license, 
gasoline, personal property tax, or other¬ 
wise in an amount sufficient to provide 
for the entire upkeep and from 59 to 75 
per cent of the cost of new construction.” 
A resolution was passed urging a 
modification of the highway law so that a 
special license may be granted after 
proper road test to persons over 15 years 
to drive to and from school. The sug¬ 
gestion that farm boys be privileged to 
drive the truck to the milk station morn¬ 
ings was approved but not included in the 
resolution for fear it might cause un¬ 
favorable action on the entire request. 
Rural School Situation Discussed 
The rural school situation was the 
subject of a long resolution declaring that 
“First, there should be a local unit of 
administration and taxation larger than 
the present district unit, and of adequate 
size to make it possible to provide within 
such unit of administration and taxation 
necessary school facilities from the 
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