DAIRY MEETING. 1 63 



MARKETING FARM PRODUCTS AND PURCHASING 

 FARM SUPPLIES CO-OPERATI\'ELY. 



By C. E. Embree. 



We are met to discuss the question of marketing and while 

 my remarks will be entirely out of the usual methods of treat- 

 ing the subject, I will, nevertheless, enter into the very founda- 

 tion of marketing and point the way whereby the producer 

 shall realize more for his product. 



I believe we have reached an era in the history of farm prac- 

 tices when business methods are more important than even the 

 coming together of the dairymen of the State to discuss con- 

 ditions affecting the business in which they are engaged. 



You are met here to gather information from the experience 

 and investigations of the individual in the hope that you will 

 be able to carry back to your homes these experiences which 

 others have found profitable and apply them for the better- 

 ment of your individual dairy. 



For years you have had your Experimental Stations, your 

 Agricultural Colleges or Universities and the Institute meetings, 

 and from all these sources scientific knowledge has been sent 

 abroad, reaching every farming community it mattered not 

 how isolated. 



Because of these Colleges and other valuable sources of in- 

 formation the farmer has now a very thorough knowledge of 

 soil conditions and is able to treat these conditions both scien- 

 tifically and practically. He knows the principal elements of 

 plant food and their relations to the various plants; he now 

 knows the meaning of the analyses on the bags of fertilizer and 

 if informed as to the cost of the ingredients that enter into 

 the make-up of a complete fertilizer, he can figure the money 

 value of the mixture. In fact, from a scientific standpoint the 

 farmer is well equipped to farm along correct lines, in that he 

 fs able to get from the soil the last pound it is capable of pro- 



