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PROBLEMS FACING 11Educational and Co-Operative Union | Meets m Topeka.Togeka, Nor. 16.—With the agricultural industry : generally facing critical problems, the annual meeting of the National Farmers Educational and Go-oparafctve Union of .America, to be held here November 15,16 and 17 will have.bcCore it business o£ unusually vital importance to its organization which now reaches into twenty-four states. According lo officials of the/tniirm, the following represent the most important matters to be considered:Better methods of marketing farm products, with especial reference to grain, live stock, cotton and staples.The transportation problem as it affects agriculture,.National legislation affecting farm-iug - interests, with special reference to strengthening the Farm Loan Act, personal credit legislation and a more adequate system of farm finance.Approrimtely five 'hundred delegates have been named to attend the meeting. They will bring reportsfrom the various states on the aefcrvi-* ties of the union during the last year.The activities of the farmers union includet mutual insurance companies, | grain elevators, cotton hnd tobacco warehouses, state supply houses or cxy changes,, terminal elevators and warehouses, creameries, milk condenser, iepj jobbing associations, and livestock commission houses in Omaha, Sioux j City, Kansas City, St. JosepfyMo, ]A number of prominent agriculturists will address the meeting, including; President C. S. Barrett, Union City, Ga.j secretary A, C. Davis, C. i H. Hyde of Oklahoma, .member of lt;'Tba Committee of Seventeen”; Maurice McAnliffe, SIiDa, Kao. pres-1 Went of the Kansas Farmers' Union; ’ Charles A. Lyman, Washington, D-0., secretary of the national boardj^f fann organizations; L. SI. Rhodes, Jacksonville, Fla,, commissioner of markets; Fred Millard, Los Gatos, Calif., secretary of the California division*The states in which the farmers union now is organized are: Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama', Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.
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Hamilton Evening Journal
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Wed, Nov 16, 1921
Page 15
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