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ferences with some leaders in the sugar Beet Industry relative to future 

 plans for organization. 



IV. LOCAL ORrxANIZATIONS. 



A large per cent of the time of the Markets Staff has been given to 

 problems of local organization. These organizations show great varieties 

 of types and include Co-operative Elevators, Livestock Shipping Associa- 

 tions, Potato Marketing and "Warehouse Associations, Cold Storage and 

 Pi-e-cooling Plants for perishables, Co-operative Creameries, Co-operative 

 Cheese Factories, Co-operative Fruit Packing Houses and Cooperative 

 Milk Distributing Plants. Many of these local units need to be reor- 

 ganized and re-financed, due to losses occurred during the after-war de- 

 pression. Many local membership Associations have been re-organized 

 under the new Non-profit Stock law, which is- now considered preferable 

 where any considerable amount of capital is involved. The number 

 of these local associations is steadily increasing and our records now 

 show a total number of about .508. 



V. GENERAL EDUCATION WORK. 



Numerous talks and addresses b}' members of the Marketing Staff 

 have been given on Rural Organization and Marketing problems to 

 Granges, Farmers Clubs, Gleaner Organizations, Agricultural Institutes, 

 County Farm Bureaus and meetings of local Co-operative Marketing 

 Associations, as well as meetings of Commodity Exchanges, Farm 

 Bureaus, etc. 



The marketing staff is compelled to accept a large number of invita- 

 tions of this kind and consider this class of work as being of genuine 

 value but is not cultivated and preference is given to the major efforts 

 along the line of well defined organization projects which have been 

 undertaken. 



REPORT OF EXTENSION WORK IN LAND CLEARING 



BY L. F. LIVINGSTON 



Agitation for land clearing has been carried on for some time in 

 Michigan, but it was not until August 1, 1921 that the efforts were 

 crystallized and the Michigan Agricultural College established a land 

 clearing section with L. F. Livingston in charge and A. J. McAdams 

 as assistant. Due to the early growtli of tlie work, Geo. Amundson was' 

 employed in March as an assistant. 



The first problem that confronted this office was a general survey 

 of the land clearing conditions of the state with special reference to 

 the Upper Peninsula whei-e more cleared land was essential. The survey 

 brought out several facts regarding the agricultural sliuation of the 



