Nebraska Union Farmer du lieu suivant : Omaha, Nebraska • 5

aS 7 June 9 1954 NEBRASKA UNION ARMER Page ive Column Column Institute Time Near a June the 1 Un i No the 3 A door William 4 Cornell University is expecting several thousand co op leaders at the American Institute of Coop eration Aug 15 19 The annual session brings together farm marketing and farm purchasing co op officials and others Why not sign up that non mem ber neighbor of yours and let him help you build the armers Union and its co op activities? i I I 1 i 5 Interprovincial Cooperatives a federation of eight Canadian pro vincial co ops had $124 million last a 12 percent increase over 1952 During the year it acquired peanut butter and farm chemical plants added a fourth warehouse at Toronto overseas technical assist ance should use co ops more a Cooperative League spokesman told the House foreign affairs committee May 19 Wallace Campbell the Washing ton office director said experience with co ops "provides a constructive pattern for underdeveloped Co ops would mean he said "a continuing program of self We plan any meetings now until September or October oafter the busy season Udell Brown si Buffalo County Buffalo County armers second quarterly The Union will be held in the Amherst high school auditorium on June 10 at 8 pm Movies will be shown and ice cream will bo served Harold Peterson Big Blue Local Big Blue Local No 1307 Saline County met May 26 at District 9 with attendance of about 45 members Guests present were Mr and Mrs Bernard Kaspar and daughter Jane Mr and Mrs Adolph Svancera and Jean Mrs Anna Renner and Joe Renner of Crete Mr and Mrs William Wien ke and son Willard of Clatonia and Chris Peterson of Dewitt prize was awarded to Mrs Kvasnicka It was voted to omit meeting and for the next meetingJuly 21 the John Ripa and rank Voeasek families will be on the committee ifi charge of arrange ments Mr Peterson was on hand to en tertain the group with a color film of the trip his parents and he and his wife took to Denmark last sum mer His running commentary was exceptionally veil presented Mrs loyd Herman News Reporter Stanton County Stanton County armers Union will hold their second qarterly meeting in the city hall at Stan ton June 1 1 at 8 pm Program includes report of leg islative committee by Pete Claus sen YD report by LeVern Iteer mann and report of Seventh Dis trict meeting by Ralph Dye William Hall head hog salesman for armers Union Livestock Com mission Omaha plans to be pres ent and Darrell Puckett director of Seventh District plans to re port Refreshments will be served Jensen Sr Polk County Polk County armers Union will have a basket supper in Buckley park on June 22 at 7 pm Please brings cups and plates along with the lunch Coffee and ice cream will be furnished by the county union An interesting program includ ing travel pictures recently filmed in Sweden is planned All farm people and their city friends arc welcome Kenneth I Myers Wayne County Wayne County armers Union will hold their second quarterly meeting in the REA building at Wayne on June 14 at 8 pm Darrell Puckett director of Seventh District plans to give a talk Refreshments will be served Biermann Bassett Local Members of Bassett Iocal 1456 Rock County met evening of May 19 Because of conflicting dates with the com mencement exercises the crowd was but very attentive Vern Dorothy director of Second District showed the films "In Our and "Highways and By ollowing the movies he talked on things that can and are being done by locals and members to help improve conditions in dif ferent communities Knox County Knox County armers Union will hold their annual meeting at Wau sa in the city auditorium on June 24 at 8 in State President Chris Milius will speak and accordion music will be presented as entertainment Lunch will be served following the meet ing Martha Chocholousek airdale Local Members of airdale Local No 678 Howard County will meet at the Sperling home June 10 Rudolph Berggren Hall County Hall County armers Union second quarterly meeting will be held in the armers Union Hall at' the municipal air base June 15 at 8 pm All county delegates and local presidents and secretaries are ask ed to be present A meeting hall is to be discussed Lunch after the meeting Bring sandwiches Coffee will be served red Wiese NEXT ISSUE Deadline for material for the June 23 issue WEDNESDAY JUNE Send the news: send your views membership Though it was never officially announced Editor Dawson has as sumed a new role of A son Robert Bradley was born on March 31 1954 All are doing very well and we offer our belated congratulations to Mr and Mrs Dawson (How did the Women's Column miss such an event?) Our other three employees are Kathrinc Kjeldgaard secretary to President Milius and in charge of the Serum department Myrle Travnicek who is responsible 'for all the printing in the new arm ers Union Printing department and Alviena Brehmer addressograph operator in charge of all mailing and addressing We arc very happy for the cor dial relationship among our em ployees each is doing his work efficiently for the benefit of the or ganization All are dues paying members of the organization We hope that you will take time the next time you are in the office and visit with the employees and sec the work they arc doing for you and for all armers Union families Kamas Douglas County Second quarterly meeting of Douglas County armers Union will be June 11 at 8 pm in the town hall in Bennington Program includes a discussion of the State Exchange fertilizer pro gram by Wilbur Drown field representative and we plan to have State President Chris Milius present for a report Refreshments will be served by county union Harry Mass Co op Roundup new governor general Sir Oliver Goonetilleke led in or ganizing retail food co ops in Colombo during World War II Later as agriculture minister' he also encouraged food production co ops the first Ceylonese named to the post George Halonen associate edi tor of the innish Co op Week ly died at Superior Wise May 12 He was a former director of the Cooperative League and for mer education director of Cen tral Cooperative Wholesale rThe armCTS Union Institute will be held tlie week of Aur 15 at Camp Kwams remont It is a week in which young men and women can get together from various parts of the state to study the history principles and practices of cooperation and learn how to conduct meetings and express their opinions also where they can learn how to work and play We hope that we will have a large enrollment for the 1954 Institute Locals county organiza tions and busmess activities can gain much by sending voung men and1wonen who are wdhng to learn something about cooperative ideals and practices 1 There are indications that for the first 6 months of 1954 our membership figures will show an increase over the corresponding period of 1953 In checking our records tlie increase is showing up in those counties tdiere membership campaigns were held during the fii'st part of this year We hope those counties that liave not held a membership drive will make arrangements now for a drive this fall We need to increase our membership we must do it now As we statbd in our report we hope that every mem ber will pay his dues to his local secretary or mail them directly to the state office Those members whose dues are not paid by June 30 of this year will be removed from our membership files All secretar ies are requested to forward all dues on hand to the state office for proper credit We would like to introduce a new employee of armers Union Mrs Dolma Hansen of Omaha has replaced Mrs Bonnie (Moller) Schiebur effective June 1 Bonnie is now devoting all of her time in caring for her home and her husband She had worked in the armers Union of Nebraska for 8 consecutive years We wish both Donna and Bonnie success in their new occupations We offer congratulations to an other employee Janet Kelley of Winnetoon Ncbr who was mar ried on May 29 in her home town We know that she will find new happiness in her career as house wife Jan will continue to work in the state office as soon as she re turns from her honeymoon Donna and Janet are responsible for ack Pierce County The Pierce County armers ion meeting will be June 10 at the Henry Ketelson home in Plainview starting at 10 am Everyone is kindly asked to at tend Mary Beck oreign Trade Mission The four foreign agricultural trade missions on one of which 1 was appointed a member to visit the northern European countries 1 have turned to the United States and will meet again and make their final report to the Secretary of Agriculture June 10 and 11 With a 3 day briefing before our departure from Washington in meeting with President Eisenhower he stated that we were Tin barking on an important mission to seek and means of increas ing international trade under conditions that will favorablv affect the prosperity of both the producer and seller We needed therefore to do two things in the countries we visited irst find out what products of ours they could use and explore the possibilities of making them one of our customers for those products second de termine what products of theirs would be useful to us and help de velop plans by which this trade could be of maximum mutual benefit 1 We in the United States cannot expect to have purchasers for our products except as we purchase some of their products either in a bi lateral or multi lateral system of trade The northern group consisting of nine men and the southern group of ten men made the trip together to London and Paris rom there our group visited the countries of Belgium Netherlands Den mark Norway Austria Germany and Switzerland met with the high officials of government industrial groups and agri cultural people All of the countries very friendly toward our mission and were very frank in discussing our trade relations and impediments that stand in the way of trade Most of the countries we visited have increased their food production and some of them are confronted with dollar shortage In England they consider fruit a luxury instead of a necessity because of their dollar shqrtage The United Kingdom has a total area of 94200 square miles or slightly less than the area of Oregon Their population is 51 million people of which five percent is engaged in agriculture Of the total land area of about 59 million acres in the United King dom slightly more than half or 31 million acres devoted to the production of crops and grass Another 17 million acres is in rough grazing and almost 4 million in forest area The principal cereals grown are wheat barley and oats The average size farm is about 100 acres The average farmer with 100 acres of land 4would ordinarily have some 35 to 45 acres in cultivated crops and the rest in hay and pasture Half of this crop land would be cereals and the rest in potatoes sugar beets turnips kale and perhaps peas or fruit A large part of his produc tion be used to feed livestock which would probably average about 12 dairy cows with 20 other head of cither dairy heifers or fattening steers He keeps about a dozen pigs for fattening and a small poultry flock The climate is mild enough in the southwest part of England for livestock to stay out the year round While agriculture in the United Kingdom is mostly of a mixed type witjb combined livestock and crop farming great emphasis is on dairying and one Saturday afternoon several of us had the pleasure of visiting two of the United They were largely engaged in dairying and their farming is becoming highly mechanized In 1942 they had 116830 tractors and in 1952 367100 tractors Combined harvesters increased from 1000 to 17250 and milking machines from 20510 to 90960 With a total area slightly larger than the State of Oregon the United Kingdom produces fully 40 percent of tlie food required for its 51 million people Meanwhile the decline in horse numbers be cause of increased mechanization has released to production and imports for human use the equivalent of at least one million acres of agricultural land The United Kingdom is aiming at achieving a high level of agricultural production which will naturally reduce their import requirements In the past we suplied the United Kingdom with about 75 per cent of the tobacco requirements which has now dropped to 50 per cent Many of our prices now are above the world price and while the United Kingdom is going into a position to buy grain in thcfree market they are buying on a quality and price basis The consumption of food in the United Kingdom will increase by 1954 All foods will be out of rationing In the past a ration for one adult was 4 oz each of bacon and margarine 1 egg 10 oz each cooking fat and tea 3 oz butter 10 oz sugar personal points candy or sweets 6 oz meat 15 kilograms 7 his rationing was made by the war and scarcity of food They arc now working toward the return to freerer tradc'and to derationing which allows the consumer free choice in the selection of food 1 he con servative government which is now in control has accelerated the trend toward freer trade in agricultural products The market place will again determine the price In 1938 about 47 percent of the total value of the imports were accounted for by food drinks and tobacco This has increased in 1953 to 39 percent The policy of the government is to discontinue bulk purchases by the administrator of food as it becomes possible to return the purchase to private trade In each issue 'of our publication I will give a brief outline of the countries we visited Milius i'' A Wisner Local Wisner Local No 338 Cuming County will hold the second quar terly meeting in the VW ball at 8 June 17 Everyone is welcome Come Purtzer armers Union Meetings 16.