Iron County Farm Bureau News, 1917-1920;

              BUREAU NEWS.
IRON COUNTY, UTAH.
Vol. 1.
Parowan, Utah, June 22. 1917.
No. I.
2/ou have increased your acreage, can you now increase your
yield per acre?     June is the month to cultivate.
ORGANIZATION OF THE IRON COUNTY FARM BUREAU.
Farmers of America have been pioneers,
they have constantly moved to new country as
the old became partly settled. This has developed independent attitude and consequently they have been slow to organize. Capital
on one side, labor on the other side, are fully
organized,    Each group  bargains collectively.
The Farmer who is the primary producer,
can control all forces if he can organize and
co-operate as effectually as labor has done.
In Utah we have but few farmers' organizations
as compared with other states.
The County organizations known as the county
Farm Bureau has been made a clearing house
for agricultural problems. They have assisted Co.
agents in finding and carrying on the inprove-
ments of importance in the county. The county
bureau is made up of local bureaus of each
farming community. The local presidents become the directors of the county bureau and
elect officers for the directorate from among
their number.
Iron County began at Round-up-time, Feb.
14, 1917, bv electing the county officers before
the locals were organized. At present five
locals are officered and are focusing on the
work of increasing production. Others locals
will soon be organized.
The committees on membership are making
an effort to enroll farmers in sufficient numbers to make a farm organization that can
handle local problems and join with other
counties in keeping the agriculture of the state
on the high level it was started on.
Iron County has among other numerous
weeds, three which need to be reckoned with
before they reduce many times the value of
large tracts of land. 1st. The Canadian thistle. 2. Morning Glory, 3, A mustard, commonly called white top.
ONE LINE OF FOOD CONSERVATION.
A farmer friend was recently telling me a-
bout his cows and how they were doing; he had
thirteen head and was keeping a close account
of their expenses and returns, He told that
the most surprising thing about his records
was, they showed him that in his own heme his
family was using from eighteen to twenty dollars worth per month, of the product from his
herd; that is, the milk and cream used by his
family of five persons at the prices he received
for his product shipped to the Salt Lake market as sweet cream, amounted to from eighteen
to twenty dollars per month.
This farmer's records began with the beginning of the year when he moved onto the farm
in Millard Countv where he is now living, and
had been carefully checked for five months.
He had always lived on a farm and hie family's
mode of living was no different now to what
it had been before, but he had never before
kept a record of his family's milk bill, which
of course included milk and cream used in any
way by them as milk and cream on the table,
or for churning and other purposes.
Now, seeing he was pondering some on the
size of the bill, I called his attention to the
fact that it was the cheapest part of his living
for the food value of milk, cream, and butter
as he had them in his home was greater than
any article he purchased at the grocery store
for an equal amount of money value.
I have investigated prices some and I have a
family to supply, I knew the statement I made
would stand checking up.
Had my friend not had that supply of milk
and cream with the products they entered into
such as butter, cottage cheese, and ice cream,
he would have had to purchase other foods and
the same food value in other forms at the grocery store would have cost him not less than
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