Davis County Farm Bureau News, 1920-1923;

              DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH
VOLUME II
Kaysville, Utah, January 27, 1920
NUMBER 7
WORK DONE BY BUREAU IN 1920
1. Proposed formations of 49,000-
acre irrigation district.
2. Proposed organizations of its
second drainage district at North Salt
Lake, co-operating with Salt Lake
City and Salt Lake County.
3. Co-operative drainage being
done at North Farmington, Clearfield
and Syracuse.
4. Hay, feed grain, Dixie molasses,
and farm machinery co-operatively
bought at a saving of $6273.45.
5. Four cars of Early Ohio potatoes contracted, grown at Morgan
and shipped in.
6. Successful negotiating of sugar
beet and tomato contract.
7. Assistance given in controlling
rats, sparrows, ground squirrels and
grasshoppers.
Work to Be Done by County Bureau.
1. The bureau will negotiate a
sugar beet and tomato contract. A
campaign will be made to control diseases of the sugar beet.
2. The county will co-operate with
the State Bureau in a campaign for
better milk, better conditions in dairying and work for a dairyman's league.
3. The irrigation district will be
formed.
4. Co-operative drainage will be
done where needed.
5. Some of the labor problems in
beets and tomatoes will be solved.
6. Civic conditions will be improved such as better sideroads, cement sidewalks along the highway,
cleanup days in the various locals and
furnishing educational amusements.
7. Campaign for weed eradication.
8. Campaign for controlling sparrows, ground squirrels and grasshoppers.
9. Representative committee will
try to obtain state ownership of the
experimental farm.
One man says: "When your Farm
Bureau becomes a strong organization
I'll join." When it does it won't need
his support as bad as it does now.
Now is the time that it needs support.
Join NOW.
EARLY OHIO  SEED POTATOES
Since the Bureau unloaded the car
of Early Ohio and Irish Cobbler Minnesota Certified seed potatoes in the
fall there has been quite a call for
some more of the seed. Another car
of certified Ohios can be shipped in
for the same price as the last car if
sufficient orders will be turned over
to the Bureau presidents. If you want
any seed, see your president now, for
the car must be sent for before February 10 in order to have it arrive
when the seed is needed. Make your
plans for planting now and avoid the
spring rush by buying your seed. The
Bureau cannot order a car of seed
unless sufficient orders come in for
a car.
WAYS TO KILL THE
FARM   BUREAU
1. Stay home and kick about the
Farm Bureau.
2. Never join or support the Bureau in any move.
3. Come late to meetings and take
no part when you do come.
4. Listen to others, who are selfishly opposed to Bureau work, and
say  ?
5. Not helping your Bureau or
committeemen in their work.
6. Keeping still about some good
work the Bureau has done for you.
WHY   YOU   SHOULD   JOIN
Utah is going to have 15,000 Farm
Bureau members in 1921. The National Bureau will have about 3,000,-
000.    Davis county's quota is 696.
We have 1172 farmers in the county and surely it is not too much to
expect over half of these to join, especially when in the past some business men have seen enough in the
Bureau for them to join. You are
figured in on this quota.   JOIN NOW.
Physical side of farming is developed, but the business side is undeveloped. Under present uncertain
conditions farming should be balanced up.
■' JOTT THE BUREAU NOW.
IS   FEE   TOO   HIGH?
A non-member of the Farm Bureau has suggested that the fee
should not be increased. We wonder
how a farmers' organization can do
the big amount of business that it is
now doing on less capital than any
other organization.
The Farm Bureau has grown faster
than any other organization the last
ten years and has done it on less
money. It is now in a position where
it has representaives in the state and
national capitols solving farmer's
problems and bettering the farmer's
conditions. In the past these men
have been sacrificing part of their
time for the farmers. If we demand
all their time to make the work bigger, shouldn't we pay their expenses.
Would you be willing to stand your
own expenses and time, constantly, as
they are doing?
Farm Bureau members want to pay
for maintenance of the organization,
but it is their duty to convince others-
that we cannot expect something continuously for nothing. Are we going to be satisfied with the present
size of the Bureau or are we going
to help it expand?
Farming now is a business proposition. ,
Dues paid by some local business
organizations are: Railroad men,
$72 per year; Japanese association,
$37 per year; Weber club, $36 per
year.
In eastern states the Bureau fee is
$25. There is very little complaint
about it; they have money to do business with and they are doing things.
Join now.
BABY CHICKS
Baby chicks should be bought now
for April delivery. The old hens, unless producing heavy should be replaced every three years with young
stock. This can best be done in many
instances by buying incubator chicks.
If any large amount is wanted or if
a local will pool their orders, a shipment of Leghorns can be shipped in
from California for about 15 cents a
piece.