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PROFITABLE marketing of his prod- 

 uce is one of the most serious prob- 

 lems confronting the American farmer 

 today. In the Northwest this problem 

 is e.specially diflicult owing to the long 

 distance between larger centers of 

 population and regions of production. 

 The State of Washington ranks high in 

 the quality and quantity of its agricul- 

 tural products, and if adequate markets 

 arc available the agricultural pros- 

 perity of the state is assured. Mindful 

 of this situation, the 1917 Legislature 

 wisely passed an act creating a slate 

 ofRce of farm markets providing for a 

 director of markets and assistants who 

 shall give their time In the investiga- 

 tion, encouragement, develoijnient and 

 improvement of marketing conditions 

 in the slate. The bill was fornmlated 

 and introduced by Senator Ralph Mel- 

 calf of Tacoma, one of the foremost 

 students of agricultural economics in 

 the West today. Senator Metcalf was 



one of Washington's representatives on 

 the National Commission on Rural 

 Credit and Co-operative Organization 

 sent lo Europe four years ago and he 

 has, during the past two years, made a 

 careful study of marketing departments 

 in the various states of this country, 

 embodying the results of this work in 

 the law recently passed. 



The law provides for an investigation 

 of methods of distribution, transporta- 

 tion rates, methods of reducing wastes, 

 costs of marketing, and is designed to 

 assist in every way possible in the im- 

 provement of marketing conditions. 

 The maintenance of a market news 

 service is provided for, as is also co- 

 operation with the Ollice of Markets, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, thus 

 bringing to the assistance of the people 

 of the state the full power of the fed- 

 eral and state governments in coping 

 with this important problem. 



The law provides for a director of 



farm marketing appointed by the 

 Director of the State Experiment Sta- 

 tion, by and with the approval of the 

 governor. It will, therefore, devolve 

 upon Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, Director of the 

 Experiment Station, to organize the 

 new office of markets and supervise its 

 work. The affiliation of this new office 

 with the Experiment Station will have 

 the result of closely co-ordinating the 

 problems of agricultural production 

 with those of distribution and mar- 

 keting. 



The act carries an appropriation of 

 •fl5,0(IO for the biennium, which, while 

 small as compared to such appropria- 

 tions in other states, nevertheless will 

 allow the state to make a beginning in 

 this line and effectively co-operate 

 with the federal marketing depart- 

 ments and also local marketing organi- 

 zations. The act is a piece of wise and 

 constructive legislation which will 

 doubtless have far-reaching conse- 

 quences in the economic development 

 of the state. 



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 If the bacteria are naturally in the soil, 

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 grown within four or five years on the 

 soil to be planted; if no legumes of any 

 kind have grown on the soil at any 

 time. If farmers entertain any doubts 

 as to the need for inoculation they may 

 find it profitable to inoculate experi- 

 mental plots and check up with the re- 

 mainder of the field. — Oregon Agricul- 

 tural College Bulletin. 



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