Kansas State Farm Bureau Bulletin from Manhattan, Kansas • 5

KANSAS STATE FARM BUREAU BULLETIN PAGE FIVE A MONTH OF WORK WITH KANSAS STATE FARM BUREAU JULY, 1922 County will hold its picnic August 1G; Neosho County, August 17; Allen County, August IS, and Anderson County, August 19. Any other, counties which wish to hold picnics can obtain Mrs. Sewell on Monday, August 14, or Tuesday, August 15. Many of the women who heard Mrs. Sewell at Manhattan were anxious to have her come to their county to speak to the farm women there.

It was due to this demand that she was scheduled for this series of picnics. a meeting of the A. F. B. F.

bo The meetings began June 26. Policies regarding marketing tivities and national legislation among the things on the progf Word was received by Mr. Snj that Gray Silver, Washington re sentative of the federation had dered his resignation and it probable that a man would be sel ed to take his place. Another thing coming before committee was the annual mee which will be held next Novem Kansas City and St. Louis are tioned as possible places for the ventiori.

Kansas will make every fort to bring the convention to sas City. Representatives from of the states, however, are in ft of making Chicago the permai Plenty of Men for Harvest Kansas seems to have plenty of harvest hands at the beginning of harvest. A survey of probable needs and wages to be paid was made more than a month ago by the state farm bureau. Publicity was sent out through the Associated Press to states south and east of Kansas which usually send harvesters to this state. Up to June 22 there had been no report of a shortage.

Hands were flowing into the state at a steady rate. George E. Tucker, former president of the Greenwood County Farm Bureau, is now Federal Farm, Labor director for the Mississippi Valley states and is handling the ment of harvest labor. The expense to the state bureau in getting labor has been very light thus far. Get Discount on War Supplies Kansas State Farm Bureau has arranged for a 10 per cent discount on all army supplies except harness, which is being sold at more than a 10 per cent discount to farm bureau members.

To obtain advantage of this discount farm bureau members must give their orders through the county and state bureaus. Ordering through the bureaus does not cause delay since orders sent through the bureau are given preference over other orders by the distributors. meeting place. The expenses wrc be less in this way on account Chicago being centrally located on account of the fact that the ft the Chicago office would not 1 K. S.

F. B. Office Force Poses It just took one more exposure to finish the film in the camera, so the office force at the state farm bureau offices had their picture taken. Here it is. They are, front row, left to Another Union-Bureau Meet The third conference between officers of the Kansas Farmers Union and Kansas State Farm Bureau was held at the state farm bureau office in Manhattan, May 29.

H. D. Collins, V. C. Anderson, 0.

M. Lippert, John Tromble and C. E. Brasted were present to represent the Farmers Union. Ralph Snyder, F.

0. Peterson, and Charles R. Weeks represented the bureau. H. Umberger, director of extension of Kansas State Agricultural College, was present in an advisory capacity.

W. C. Lansdon who was selected as secretary of the joint conference committee was not present. C. E.

Brasted was selected as secretary pro tern. proposals looking to closer co-operation were discussed but no definite propostion adopted. However, the meeting tended to bring about a much better understanding and a "better feeling between officers of the two organization. Upon motion of V. C.

Anderson, seconded by H. D. Collins, Dean Umberger was selected to confer with both Union and bureau officers and prepare a plan to be submitted at the next meeting of the committee. This meeting will he held at Salina upon call of the chairman. The fust meeting of the committee was held at the offices of the bureau at Manhattan April 22.

John Tromble, president, and W. C. vice-president, represented the Farmers' Union. Ralph Snyder, president, and Charles R. Weeks, secretary, represented the bureau.

Dean Umberger was present in an advisory capacity. The second conference was held at the office of the State Farmers' Union in Salina, May 15. Farmers' Union officers present were John Tromble, W. C. Lansdon, C.

E. Brasted, H. D. Collins, and M. 0.

Glessner. Ralph Snyder, Charles R. Weeks, and F. 0. Peterson represented the bureau.

The conferences will be continued until some definite plans of co-operation are worked out. to journey to the place of meetiij The executie committee will tend the Farm Bureau Decenj Celebration at DeKalb, 111., June! Snyder Aggie Alumni Director Ralph Snyder, president of Kansas State Farm Bureau, has been elected to the governing board of the alumni association of Kansas State Agricultural College. Mr. Snyder finished his work at the college with the class of 1890. Other members elected at the last meeting were H.

Umberger, director of extension service, Kansas State Agricultural College, and Floyd B. Nichols, managing editor of the Capper farm press. Dean Umberger is the retiring president of the association. Mr. Nichols succeeds him.

V'l "i id I Bankers Favor Farm Bure Following a talk by Ralph Sny president of Kansas State Farm reau, before the Geary-Riley Cov Bankers' Association at Riley, 15, the bankers present passed a tion favoring the organization farm bureaus in these two count Mr. Snyder showed that the yiek wheat in farm bureau counties i rounding Geary and Riley had increased about 2V2 bushels an i by the use of improved seed, be methods of soil preparation and pi er time of sowing as advocated county farm bureaus. He also ca attention to the fact that hog era losses in farm bureau coun surrounding Geary and Riley been decreased to a minimum si xthe bureaus were established, wj in Geary and Riley counties have been held up to about the si as in former years. The banlj made it plain they favored bure for selfish reasons. They stated right, Zilpha Trull, stenographer; Pearl Clark, bookkeeper; Gertrude Lumsden, stenographer; back row, left to right, Ralph Snyder, president; Geo.

A. Montgomery, editor of the Bulletin; Chas. R. Weeks, bureaus would add to the prospei of the counties, which in turn wc help the banking business. K.

S. F. B. Fights Overchar Kansas State Farm Bureau is posing the proposal of the -West; trunk lines to make a diversion reconsignment charge on potalj and vegetables. The railways announced the intention of charg $10 for the first division, $15 the second, etc.

This would pile unbearable burden of expense Bureau Saves on Twine The state farm bureau has distributed several carloads of twine to farmers of Kansas at 7.6 cents per pou'id f. o. b. factory, during te last morth. The state bureau started out to get prices.

T.be lowest price was quoted by the Kansas penitentiary. As soon as this price was received word was sent out to the or- ganized counties. There was such a demand for twine at this price that in less than two weeks the supply of penitentiary twine was exhausted. This necessitated looking to other sources for twine and the same price was obtained through the Indiana Federated Marketing Service, a farmers' cooperative organization composed of the Indiana Farm Bureau, the Indiana Grange and the Farmers' Cooperative Grain Dealers' Association of Indiana. While no attempt was made to push this project it shows the possibilities of co-operation along this line.

Twine at many points in the state retailed for practically double what this twine cost. Some Counties Short of Coal A coal shortage in practically one-third of the farm bureau counties of Kansas- is indicated in a questionnaire sent out by Kansas State Farm Bureau to the different organized counties in the state. Of the questionnaires returned, 33 per, cent state that there will be a shortage of coal for threshing purposes in their section, while 62 per cent say there will be no shortage. The other 4 per cent are doubtful. Many of the reports stated that the use of gas threshing rigsg had cut down the amount of coal needed.

Thirty-five per cent state there will be a shortage of coal for domestic purposes, 57 per cent say there will be no shortage and 8 per cent are doubtful. The first returns from the questionnaire indicated that the shortage would be more wide-spread than is shown by final returns. About 70 per cent of the replies which came in the first few days indicated a shortage. That these replies were not in the same proportion as the final results is accounted for by the fact that those farmers, where there is a shortage, probably were more anxious to report and have something done about the shortage and sent in their replies more promptly. Some of the questionnaires indicated that coal dealres are waiting until after July 1 to ship in coal in order to get the 10 per cent discount of July for their shipments.

Governor Allen requested the tate farm bureau to take this referendum and agreed to see that those short of coal were supplied. The reports covered only the counties which have farm bureaus. Kansas Melon Men Organize Kansas State Farm Bureau is helping melon growers in Kansas to perfect an organization for selling their products. The first local melon growers' association was organized at Clyde, June 17. Eighteen growers, representing 247 acres of present.

These men pledged themselves to grade melons and ship them co-operatively. will employ a business manager to handle the marketing. A questionnaire sent out to melon growing counties brought a report of 3,332 acres. It is possible that local associations will be formed at eight other points in the It is estimated that Kansas will produce 322 carloads of melons this year. Charles R.

Weeks, secretary of the state bureau, and E. L. Rhoades, farm management demonstrator of Kansas State Agricultural College, attended the meeting at Clyde and helped growers perfect their many potato and vegetable sectioi; Bankers to Collect Dues A motion favoring the collection farm bureau dues was passed a meeting of Jackson County ban! held at Holton, June 9. Banker; the meeting volunteered to take drafts and collect them as fast thev could see the individuals signed the orders. Ralph Sny president of the state farm bur was a speaker at the meeting.

Speaks to C. of C. Men Charles R. Weeks, secretary! Kansas State Farm Bureau, wasf of the speakers at the state meej of chambers of commerce held at! peka, recently. He spoke on the pj lems of farms and how these cerned the business man.

Snyder to A. F. B. F. Meeting Ralph Snyder, president of Kansas State Farm Bureau, who is also a member of the executive committee of the American Farm Bureau Federation, was in Chicago at the time the Bulletin went to press attending Mrs.

Sewell Here in August Four Kansas will hold picnics during the third week of August. Mrs. C. W. Sewell, of Otter-hein, who was one of the speakers at the annual meetng of the stae farm bureau last February, win be the speaker.

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