Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1919 — FARM ORGANIZATION IS PROGRESSING. [ARTICLE]

FARM ORGANIZATION IS PROGRESSING.

Indianapolis, Sept 19.—Today is quota day throughout the state ( in the $200,000 guarantee fund campaign of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations. Officers of the federation predicted, after six weeks of hard campaigning, that Indiana farmers will get together and put the fund over in great shape. 'Nearly all of the counties were organized and most of them affiliated with the federation before the actual call for subscriptions was made today. Benton county was the first “over the top,” followed by Bartholomew, which was so close a second that state leaders had a hard task deciding which won. These two counties decided not to wait for quota day, but to turn in their subscriptions early. Benton wins a silver cup as first prize, and Bartholomew gets appropriate recognition. Among the counties that waited for quota day are several that are expected to send in their complete quotas before noon. This campaign is to be a winner, state leaders declared, because the farmers have realized the need for co-operative effort through a close organization. So much money has been lost in wheat and hogs, for instance, that farmers appreciate the fact that they must stand together to protect their own interests. The $200,000 fund is to be used by the federation, under a directorate including some of the best known farmers of Indiana, for the employment of stockyards experts to look after stock shipped by the farmers, market experts, freight rate investigators, for the bolstering of the county agent work, and to protect farmers against unfair and unwise legislation. A Today marks the close of an organization unique in the state’s history. Never before, federation men say, have a class or group of men throughout the state fallen into line and into step so perfectly, to go forward for their own benefit together, in such a short time. General Secretary.