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Mr. PI. C. Thompson, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, spoke on 

 vegetables. Professor White on flowers, Professor Rasmussen on 

 dairy products, and Dr. E. W. Benjamin, of Cornell University, on 

 poultry products. Mr. V. K. McElheny, of Nev^ York City, presi- 

 dent of the American Fruit and Produce Auction Association, pre- 

 sented the function of the auction as a marketing agency ; Mr. C. R. 

 White, of Ionia, N. Y., considered the place of the cooperative 

 exchange ; Mr. W. J. Thurston, of the Cooperative Flower Exchange 

 of Boston, dealt with the practical problems connected with the sale 

 of flowers; Mr. E. S. Brigham, commissioner of agriculture of Ver- 

 mont, treated of the sale of dairy products; and Mr. F. G. Urner, 

 of New York City, and Mr. H. J. Bird, of the produce department 

 of Swift & Co., dealt with the sale of poultry products. A number 

 of members of the Massachusetts Agricultural College faculty sup- 

 plemented these discussions with matters connected with marketing 

 as related to their specialties. 



At the evening conference, Dean J. L. Coulter, of the College of 

 Agriculture of the University of West Virginia, led the discussion 

 on farm finance and explained the principles and operations of the 

 Federal Farm Loan Act. At the Saturday conference on the topic, 

 Making the Farm Pay, Prof. G. F. Warren, of Cornell University, 

 discussed the factors of profit in farming in the light of certain farm 

 management investigations in New York. 



The work of this week showed how great has been the advance in 

 recent years in the collection and consideration of definite data on 

 marketing and other economic problems in agriculture in the United 

 States, as well as the rapid progress in the establishment of state 

 and federal agencies for the study of these problems and the giving 

 of assistance in their practical solution. 



In the fourth week. Prof. H. C. Taylor, of the University of Wis- 

 consin, under the head of Land Problems, discussed the social and 

 economic factors determining the types of farming and the proper 

 degree of intensity of culture in agricultural production, the helps 

 and hindrances to land ownership, tlie forms of land tenure, land 

 values, capitalization, and amortization. 



President Butterfield summarized in three lectures important re- 

 sults of his studies on organization as a condition of rural social 

 growth. He defined rural organization as the systematic and pro- 

 gressive assembling of all those forces and agencies wdiich make for 

 the sound development of the business and life of rural people and 

 for the adjustment of their highest welfare to the common good. 

 Great stress w,as laid on the proper organization of the local rural 

 community as a basis for organization in the broad units. In this 

 connection he said: 



