The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 13, 1918, Page 15

Who S Who on “Farmers ‘War Board Nonpartisan League Repre- sented by J. N. Hagan—Big Landlords and Bankers Also Chosen F. HOUSTON, United States secretary of agriculture, and Herbert Hoover, United States food administrator, have ap- pointed a committee of 24 men to advise the government in re- gard to agriculture during the war. Readers of the Leader are interested in the personnel of thxs committee, which is going to perform the im- portant function of advising Houston and Hoover on measures affecting farmers. The impression is given in the announcement from Washington that this committee will actually determine the secretary of agriculture and the food administrator in their policies toward the farmer. John N. Hagan of Deering, N. D., commissioner of agriculture of that state, having been elected by the Nonpartisan league, has been honored by ap- ° pointment to this committee. Mr. Hagan for the last 17 years has been farming on his own land in - North Dakota, and was drafted by the League farm- ers as their choice for agricultural commissioner. He has no other interest than farming. The committee appointed numbers many promi- nent farmers of the country, and several other men who are fualified to speak from the standpoint of actual on-the-land farmers. However, the banking business and other lines of business have been given very adequate representation on this “farmers’” committee. Followmg are some of the men ap- pointed: Henry C. Stuart, ex-governor of Virginia, who is chairman of the committee, is a big landlord of his state, and is reported by the department as operat- ing “a tenant system on 35,000 acres of land.” David R. Coker of Hartsville, S. C., president of a pedigreed seed company and director of the Rich- mond reserve bank. He is said to be “interested” also in farming. Eugene. Funk of Bloomington, Ill., who runs a big seed business. In the past he has operated 20,000 acres of land of grain and corn at one time, aeeord- ing to the department of agriculture. John Grattan of Broomfield, Col., former banker of Medford, Okla.,, now a member of the board of. directors of the Stockyards bank at Denver, Col. He is said to be “interested” in farming also. H. W. Jeffers of Plainsboro, N. J., president_of the Walker-Gordon Laboratory company and man- ager of a dairy business which operates several farms. Here is the committee which will advise the department of agriculture and the food administration. North Dakotans will recognize John N. Hagan, their commissioner of agriculture. row, second from the left. State Savings bank at Aberdeen and a director of the Scandinavian-American National bank at Minneapolis, Minn. He owns a stock ranch of 1,760 acres. David M. Massie, a business man of Chillicothe, Ohio. He is said to be “interested” in farm questions. 1 Marion Sansom of Fort Worth, Texas, banker, director of the Federal Reserve bank at Dallas, Texas. He is also said to.be “interested” in ag- riculture. The other members of the committee, not men- tioned above, are as follows: C. S. Barrett of Union City, Ga., president of the National Farmers’ union. Elbert S. Brigham of St. Albans, Vt., commis- sioner of agriculture for his state. W. L. Brown of Kingman, Kan., member of the state board of agriculture and member of the executive committee of the State Cattlemen’s as- sociation of Kansas. Milo D. Campbell of Cold Water, Mich., presi- dent of the National Milk Producers’ federation. W. R. Dodson of Baton Rouge, La., director of the Louisiana agricultural experiment station, dean of the college of agriculture of Louisiana State university and member of the state council of defense. The Patriotic Hen of Hfioople Isaac Lincoln of Aberdeen, S. D., president of the HEN Governor Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota went to his home town, Hoople, for a Red Cross benefit, some Nonpartisan contributed a hen. This chicken caught the patriotic excite- ment of the occasion gnd laid an egg. The governor, as auctioneer, sold and resold the egg until he ‘realized $371. Then the egg was given to him as a souvenir. He now has it on his executive desk at Bismarck. It is hoped that Mrs. Frazier hard-boiled it. The total receipts for the day were $2,842. How is that for Nonpartisans? The governor is shown in the picture calling for bids on the freshest egg that ever was sold. The flag bearer is Colonel H. A. Ball. Clerk Olson stands between them. He is in the front N. H. Gentry of Sedalia, Mo., farmer and hog breeder. Wesley G. Gordon of Humboldt, Tenn., interested in general farming. Frank J. Hagenbarth of Spencer, Idaho, heavily- interested in sheep and wool growing and in cattle raising. He formerly “operated” large ranches in Mexico, it is said. He is president of the National Wool Growers’ association. W. W. Harrah of Pendleton, Ore., director of a large terminal warehouse company at Seattle, di- rector of the Farmers’ union grain agency at Pen- dleton, member of the Farmers’ Educational and Co-Operative union, and a big wheat grower. C. W. Hunt of Logan, Iowa, engaged with his sons in general farming; a member of the Iowa state legislature. D. O. Mahoney of Viroqua, Wis., tobacco farmer and formerly county judge. He has been president of the Wisconsin branch of the American Society of Equity. William F. Pratt of Batavia, N. Y., agricultural representative on the board of trustees of Cornell university, and a member of the New York state farm and markets council. George C. Roeding of Fresno, Cal., president of the agricultural society of the state and a fruit grower, nurseryman and irrigation farmer. C. J. Tyson of Floradale, Pa., former secretary and president of the State Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania, general farmer and fruit grower. Oliver Wilson of Peoria, Ill.,, master of the Na- tional Grange and formerly edltor of the National Grange monthly. Raise More Chickens, Says Uncle Sam Meat can be produced from poultry more quickly than from any other source. One of the necessities is to produce more meat than we have ever produced before. Of such meats as can be cured and kept in ~compact form, larger quantities must be sent.to the armies, and the proportxon of these exports. to the total production in the United States is likely to in- crease rapidly, as larger forces are sent to the fighting front.— - The department of agriculture urges a decided in- crease in home production and the home consump- tion of white meats such as poultry. The great bulk of poultry is produced not on specialized poultry farms but on diversified farms. . The demand upon . the nation’s capacity can be met by the farmers and. home makers of the country without strain and with compensation in poultry profits. “There should be 100 hens on every farm in the United States,” says a recent bulletin. “We should obtain 100 eggs from every hen. ‘With approximately 6,000,000 farms, that would mean 600,000,000 hens 'and 60 ,000,000,000 eggs per. year. That number of eggs constltutes a military resource not to be ig- nored. -One hundred eggs from every lien is con- siderably more than the average egg prodnchon the : country over.” .