From Days Gone By Sept. 24, 1921

September 24, 1921.
    Johnson County citizen farmer, John R. Moore shared his interest and take on the newly formed American Farm Bureau Association which was just 12 months old. Also he encouraged farmers that during the present hard times this could be their only hope.
    "This being my native county I feel very much interested in the prosperity of everyone and especially so to my brother farmer. And just at this time when our burdens are the heaviest we are much as a drowning man, we catch at a straw. Had we rallied to the Farm Bureau last winter and completed the work and joined in numbers sufficient to become a member we now would have been clipping our coupons.
    What does the American Farm Bureau Federation stand for? Forst, it proposes to help is pool ans sell our produce, hogs, cattle, chickens, eggs and also our cotton. It will be linked together from ocean to ocean and from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. Nationally it is 12 months old today and has 44 states now running in high. Some of these are what they call 100 per cent states, every county a member. Nationwide, lets give it our support. Live agents in every county will help us work and market collectively.
    Johnson County can do nothing alone in the way of marketing. The Farm Bureau keeps posted, having a chain of advisors, and then it is our business. You need it and it needs you. It can live better without you than you can without it. It has grown now until it covers the United States as the dew covers tbe earth. If the county farmers so desire I would be glad f p r Miss Massey and Agent Crow to arrange the places and time and I will take pleasure in going into the workings of same, and what I will say will not cost you a cent nor anyone else. We cannot afford to let it go by. To get any support from if we must join it.
    The question is asked, "What is done with the joining money?" I will answer that by asking one, "What does Johnson County do with the taxes collected?" Should there be any dates arranged you may ask me any question and if I can't answer I will say so.
    This appeal is to our farmers and made by one. So let's rally to a man and get together and co-operate, one with another, and we will have a greater county and more enlightened people."
    Another idea mentioned by the Headlight was the NEOSHO Plan. Ot does this: Farmers are given an opportunity of disposing of all of their produce at a regular monthly community auction sale, selling produce, livestock, second-hand implements, household goods and anything else they have to sell. It provides for a monthly bargain day at which no two merchants advertise the same bargains, the advertising being done co-operatively. It provides for a monthly or a semi-monthly visit to the country by business men of the town for the discussion of topics of interest to the farmer. The net result is said to be a much better understanding and co-operation between the farmer and themselves, between the merchants and between farmer and merchant.
    Wrightsville could put this on or the all-the-year-round marketing system she has proposed already. Someday we are going to wake up and find ourselves nowhere. Better get together on something and that quick. We need action, not cold water.