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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1931
Page
3
The Indiana Farm Bureau and allied corporations form a major state business network with annual sales over fifty million dollars. They report substantial dividends to members, broad grain and livestock co op activity, and extensive petroleum, dairy, and chemical operations, including bulk fuel plants and dairy processing plants in multiple cities.
The Farm Bureau expands cooperative activities across communities with collective buying and selling that benefits members. Regular prices are maintained and refunds issued to members, while money spent with Farm Bureau agencies stays locally, boosting county prosperity and payrolls.
The Indiana Farm Bureau touts a five dollar family membership as a returnable investment with rebates that exceed dues. It argues the group supports railroad rates taxation fairness and legislation while offering social and educational benefits to both men and women in farm households.
A county office promotes farming improvements through better legumes dairy farming and youth programs. It highlights cooperative marketing purchasing information dissemination legislation advocacy tax fairness and mutual insurance to cut costs and raise farm family prosperity nationwide.
The Clay township meeting will be held at Owasco on Tuesday evening January 6. A special program includes music by a ladies quartet and a male quartet, readings by Ralph Gard, violin by Charles Gard and F Barker. Refreshments will be served and 1830 refund checks handed out.
A special Rock Creek township Farm Bureau meeting will be held at Burrows Presbyterian church on Tuesday evening January 6 at 6 30 with an oyster supper for members and families. C S Masterson of the state Farm Bureau will speak on Cooperative Marketing. Refunds on 1930 business will be handed out to members at this meeting.
Farm Bureau Cooperative Association highlights quality in all feeds with formulas on every bag based on state experiment results. It notes record fertilizer performance, controlled refinement of gasoline and kerosene, and its own lubricant plant to offer lower prices through multi state purchasing and stockholder patronage. Farmers are urged to join for collective strength and to protect agricultural interests.
The 1929 refund of four cents per pound of butterfat to Farm Bureau members totaled about 6250 dollars. This year the refund is expected to reach 9500 dollars due to more patrons and business. The money will be distributed at the January township meeting to Farm Bureau members only as mail dues flow in from Carroll County farmers.
The article argues the federal government will extend aid only to organized farming units, not to individuals. It cites the Farm Board's practice of aiding large coordinated groups like dairy associations and livestock exchanges, noting drought and hurricane relief favored organized farmers and pressed self organization as policy.
Indiana farmers cut costs on dairy and poultry feed and hog feed last year by booting feed orders saving $1.63 per ton on dairy feed, $1.73 on poultry feed and 77 cents on hog feed.
In Peru a producers retail store manufactures its own ice cream on site in view of customers. The shop also sells fountain drinks, cheese, sandwiches and other dairy products produced by the cooperative producers creamery.
The saying contrasts past and present tax burdens noting that two acres paid by one bushel of wheat in earlier days, while now it takes more than two bushels of wheat to cover the tax on one acre, illustrating rising relative taxation.
The 1930 census shows 11.2 percent fewer farms in Indiana than ten years earlier. The state now has 132,092 farms, down from 205,126 in 1920.
The article profiles M. Cliff Townsend head of the Indiana Farm Bureau's organization department. He leads a statewide membership drive with tireless public speaking likened to Billy Sunday. Townsend is described as humorous and a strong preacher in his field.
The Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association declared 84 000 dollars in cash dividends for the last half of 1930, bringing the yearly total to about 190 000 dollars. The gains come from fertilizer, oils, binder twine and paint patronage, distributed to members based on patronage. The organization, with ninety county units and annual business around 4 500 000 dollars, aims to offer fair prices through cooperative methods under President W. H. Settle and manager I H Huil in Indianapolis.
The producers Commission Association formed a cooperative credit corporation to finance agricultural livestock feeders in communities with scarce bank deposits. The system offers funds at reasonable cost and low hassle, aiding operations locally. Czechoslovakia opened its longest railway tunnel, the Masaryk named tunnel, on the Bradle between Handlova and Neustabe.
The Indiana Farm Bureau and the vocational division of the department of public instruction report the fourth annual marketing schools for adults, led by C. S. Masterson and Dr. W. D. Shelby. Sessions in Connersville Martinsville Greensburg Plainfield Osgood Greencastle Madison Crawfordsville East Enterprise in Switzerland County Rockville will expand to ten more counties.
An old advertisement warns against substitutes and urges consumers to insist on Carter's Little Liver Pills for a reliable “free flow of bile” and brighter feeling. The copy stresses brand recognition and product fidelity.
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