American Agriculturist, January 5, 1924 
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To improve soil conditions the Agricultural Re¬ 
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demonstrations in cooperation with county farm 
bureaus and experts from various colleges of 
agriculture. 
The department has materially assisted in estab¬ 
lishing a Better Sire Campaign for the introduc¬ 
tion and breeding up of dairy cattle. 
It is the task of the department to foster co¬ 
operation between agriculture and transportation 
and to bring an ever-better service to the farmers 
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Fireworks at American 
Farm Bureau Meeting 
T HE fifth annual convention of the Ameri¬ 
can Farm Bureau Federation held at 
Chicago December 10 to 12 ended with Mr. O. 
E. Bradfute again president and the conserva¬ 
tive group on top. It ended also with the 
problem of compromise, of harmony on some 
common basis with the so-called radical group 
entirely unsolved. 
The history of the past year, of which many 
of the delegates apparently were unaware, is 
important as a background of the meeting. 
Diming that period the executive committee 
has been divided as to the lines of work to be 
carried on by the Farm Bureau. One group 
charged the administration, particularly Secre¬ 
tary Coverdale, with failure to carry out the 
policies adopted at the previous annual meet¬ 
ing with respect to cooperative marketing. 
T his group believed that cooperative market¬ 
ing should be the primary object of farm 
bureau organization work and desired to make 
the American Farm Bureau Federation a 
service station for cooperatives, all such 
services to be paid for by the cooperatives. 
The other group, while not minimizing 
cooperative marketing, backed up the officials 
in insisting that the farm bureau should follow 
a balanced program, laying equal emphasis 
upon transportation, marketing, legislation 
and education. 
Coverdale Resigns 
The feeling in the executive committee 
came to a head during its meeting on Saturday 
preceding the annual meeting when the resigna¬ 
tion of Secretary Coverdale was accepted. 
On the same day at a conference on coopera¬ 
tive marketing called by Walton Peteet, in the 
course of discussion of the year’s activities, Mr. 
Peteet made remarks to the effect that the 
officials of the American Farm Bureau were 
unfriendly to cooperative marketing. 
That sentiment among the delegates was 
crystallizing in favor of the administration was 
apparent in the ovation accorded President 
O. E. Bradfute at the close of his address at 
the opening of the convention when he made a 
plea for an end to mudslinging and said that 
the dispute over cooperative marketing was a 
difference of opinion as to who instead of as to 
how, as to who should reap, the glory and the 
pecuniary profits. 
A set program, which included reports of the 
various departments and many speeches rather 
than a discussion by the delegates of the work 
for the coming year, afforded numerous drama¬ 
tic moments and opportunities to test the 
prevalent sentiment among the delegates. 
One of these came when Secretary Coverdale 
presented a report from the records of the 
organization showing that the States in which 
cooperative marketing had been stressed as the 
chief activity had not maintained their member¬ 
ship, at least so far as paying dues to the 
American Farm Bureau was concerned, as 
fully as those States in which the balanced 
program had been followed. Mr. Coverdale 
also was given a great ovation by the delegates. 
Following his report, Mr. Guard, former 
director of the department of information of 
the American Farm Bureau, whose resignation 
was accepted several weeks previously by 
President Bradfute because of Mr. S. R. Guard’s 
opposition to Mr. Coverdale, obtained the 
floor to present his plan for a general service 
program for cooperatives to be carried out by 
the Farm Bureau along such lines as organiza¬ 
tion, research, publicity, transportation, legis¬ 
lation, etc., these services to be paid for by 
the cooperatives as a means of financing the 
Farm Bureau. 
The climax came on the last day of the 
Session when Mr. Bradfute was reelected 
president by unanimous vote. G. F. Reed 
of Minnesota was elected vice-president. The 
executive committee consisted of A. C. Hardi¬ 
son, California, Frank Evans, Utah, and 
Charles E. Gibson, Jr., Colorado, Ralph 
Snyder, Kansas, S. H. Thompson, Illinois, 
C. E. Hearst, Iowa, Frank M. Smith, New 
York, George M. Putnam, New Hampshire, 
S. McLean Buckingham, Connecticut, E. P. 
Cohill, Maryland, W. D. Farris, Texas, 
Edward O’Neal, Alabama. 
Following the election the resolutions 
committee presented its report. It included 
among other things a resolution recommending 
that the State and county farm bureaus should, 
establish service relationships with cooperative 
marketing associations in order to encourage a 
more definite relationship between the Farm 
Bureau organizations and the commodity 
organizations than has existed up to date, any 
services rendered by the Farm Bureau to be 
paid for by the cooperatives. Another resolu¬ 
tion recommended the discontinuance of tax 
free securities, objected to a general sales tax 
and a reduction of income taxes.. Cooperative 
marketing of farm products as offering the 
most practicable means of stabilizing agricul¬ 
ture on a profitable basis was again endorsed 
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