CO-OPERATIVE MARKET- 

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tCT OWER meat prices to the consumer, 

 •'-' higher returns to the livestock producer, 

 and a profitable business to packers and 

 tradesmen engaged in supplying meat can be 

 brought about by the elimination of waste." 

 Dr. John R. Mohler told the Institute of 

 American Meat Packers at Atlantic City 

 recently. 



"Great wastes in the livestock and meat 

 business," he said, "are caused by diseased 

 and parasitic conditions in livestock herds." 



"Major Transactions in the 1926 December 

 Wheat Future," is the title of a new bulletin 

 recently issued by the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. The bulletin states that heavy 

 trading in futures by the leading grain spec- 

 ulators is frequently an important factor in 

 grain price fluctuations. The conclusion is 

 reached "that without the accumulation of 

 long or short lines of millions'; of bushels by 

 a very few leading speculators, the major 

 swings in price would not have befen so large." 



Inspections of Canadian wheat to date in- 

 dicate that the effective supply for bread- 

 making purposes may be no larger than from 

 last year's crop. Frosts seriously damaged the 

 Canadian crop, and dockage is reported to be 

 heavy. Much more wheat than last year is 

 being classed as feed. This fact has an im- 

 portant bearing on the price situation in the 

 United States, because our 42.6 cent tariff is 

 ineffective. 



Continued moderate expansion of the dairy 

 industry in the United Stated in view of 

 steadily increasing population and increasing 

 per capita consumotion of dairy products ap- 

 pears to be justifled, according to Nils A. 

 Olsen, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics. 



The OIney co-operative cream station, or- 

 ganized by the Richland County Farm Bureau, 

 had an increase of 23.6 per cent in September, 

 1928. business over that of September, 

 1927. The Claremont station in the same 

 county increased its September. 1928, busi- 

 ness 14 per cent over that of the same month 

 last year. 



The Crawford County Farm Bureau is organ- 

 izing produce marketing units in several com- 

 munities of that county. At a recent meeting 

 held at the county court house, representatives 

 from Oblong. Palestine. Hardinville, Porter- 

 ville, Annapolis, and Robinson trade territory 

 discussed the project under the leadership of 

 Frank Gougler, director of produce market- 

 ing for the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



Gougler explained that it would be neces- 

 sary to secure a minimum membership of not 

 less than 125 members per unit owning 600 

 cows that will produce approximately 75,000 

 pounds of butterfat annually. 



A plan for furnishing life insurance and old 

 age benefits at a low cost has been 

 developed by the California Fruit Growers' 

 Exchange for its employes, in recognition of 

 the loyal services they have rendered during 

 the more than 30 years that the organization 

 has been operating. The management feels 

 that the "Sunkist Provident Plan," as it is 

 called, will result in developing habits of 

 thrift and will bring great satisfaction to the 

 participants. 



Employes who have less than five years' 

 service to their credit are covered by group 

 life insurance, the entire premium being paid 

 by the Exchange. 



The Exchange pays the premiums on all its 

 insured employes and deducts a portion of 

 the cost from the salary of the employe. 



Farmers' co-operative creameries in Ne- 

 braska are taking steps toward federating in 

 the interests of economy and efficiency. 



The National Association of Marketing 

 Officials will hold their annual meeting in 

 Chicago. December 3-4-6. Many distinguished 

 speakers on co-operative marketing have been 

 scheduled. 



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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Stopping Without Warning 



IF THE DRIVER of a vehicle, with 

 knowledge that another is so close 

 behind him that an abrupt stop or 

 slackening of speed will probably re- 

 sult in the rear vehicle colliding with 

 him, and he suddenly and without 

 warning stops or materially lessens 

 his speed, lind a collision follows re- 

 sulting in injury to him, he is guilty 

 of contributory negligence barring re- 

 covery. 



He would be reimbursed for the car 

 damage, however* if insured in the 

 1. A. A. Auto Insurance Company. 



lail losses of members of the Saskatchewan 

 Ml nicipal Hail Insurance Association totaled 

 $2 [0,222 more in 1927 than in 1926. Rather 

 tht n increase the rate the Association took 

 $7 .000 from its reserves, levying the same 

 cr( p rate as in 1926. A flat rate of four 

 cei ts per acre is charged on all farm land, 

 with additional varying crop rates which 

 av< rage 14 cents an acre on land covered by 

 ins irance in the amount of $S an acre. This 

 pla 1 was put in operation in 1924 and is con- 

 sid ired an equitable system. 



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Ip round figures, 20,000,000 pounds of wool 

 he 1927 clip, with a sales value of $7,000,- 

 was marketed through co-operative 

 agefticies, 



1 hree-fourths of this amount was marketed 

 ibout 20 large-scale or state-wide associa- 

 tior 8, and one-fourth by more than 70 inde- 

 penjient local associations and pools. 



Ihe present season will be the fifth that 

 the members of the Farmers' Co-operative 

 Pou ;try Association. San Angelo, Teitas, have 

 beei marketing their turkeys co-operatively. 



T ley started out to ship live turkeys to 

 the Texas markets but, after two years of ex- 

 peri mce, reached the conclusion that if they 

 wer ! to obtain the best results, they would 

 hav to kill, dress, pack and deliver at the 

 east !rn markets birds in condition for im- 

 med ate sale. A dressing and packing plant 

 was erected, which has been entirely paid 

 for. Farmers are required to give notice in 

 advi nee as to the number of birds they wish 

 to n arket for the Thanksgiving trade and the 

 num )er for the Christmas trade, then they are 

 assii ned days for delivering, these assign- 

 men s being arranged to keep the plant oper- 

 atini steadily at full capacity. Much of the 



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cent 



in the plant is done by the farmer- 



mem >ers under the direction of farmer-fore- 



who have been given special training. 



AI out 12 carloads of dressed turkeys are 



to market each fall, this quantity, the 



mam gement states, represents about 95 per 



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signs 



of the turkeys produced about San 



Each member of the association 



a seven-year contract which covers all 



his I Qultry products. So far, with the excep- 

 tion >f one season when eggs were marketed, 

 the a asociation has confined its activity to the 

 mark sting of the turkeys. 



Off cials of the Saskatchewan Co-operative 

 Poult ry Producers. Ltd., are planning for 

 shipp ng dressed poultry from the province in 

 carloi 8. They plan to send representatives 

 into listricts where poultry is raised in suf- 

 ficien quantities to warrant carlot shipments 

 and t lese representatives, in co-operation with 

 the I ool secretary, are to instruct the pro- 

 ducer 1 on all matters of recording, weighing, 

 packii ig, and shipping. In those communities 

 wher* there is enough poultry for carlot 

 shippi ng, arrangements will be made to con- 

 duct : . killing and dressing demonstration. 



Th< association will furnish all necessary 

 boxos paper wrappers, etc., and an official of 

 the g ivernment will grade the fowls as they 

 are lo ided. Pool representatives will supervise 

 the p tcking, loading, weighing, and paying, 

 but t le actual work is to be done by the 

 produi ers themselves, as an educational prop- 

 ositioi . 



Spe iai service will be provided for pro- 



ducers in districts where carlots are not 

 practicable. Growers will receive the dressing 

 bulletin and will be instructed as to where 

 and when they can ship their poultry for sale 

 through the pool. Considerable quantities 

 were assembled in this way last season and 

 the experience gained will be of value this 

 year. 



The capital required by the Co-operative 

 Growers' Association, Inc., Beverly, N. Y., 

 haa been obtained through the issuing of 

 boaAs and of certificates of indebtedness. Six 

 per cent bonds in the sum of 112,000 have 

 been issued, secured by a first mortgage. In 

 addition a portion of the yearly deduction 

 from sales is converted into five-year cer- 

 tificates of indebtedness, another portion is 

 set aside as a reserve for contingencies, and 

 a portion is added to surplus. On January 1. 

 last, bonds outstanding amounted to $9,800, 

 outstanding certificates of indebtedness to 

 $32,876, reserve for contingencies to $4,000, 

 and surplus to $10,947. 



This association, formed in 1918, is en- 

 gaged in marketing peaches, apples, pears, 

 cherries, peas, beans, lima beans, and corn; 

 and in purchasing for its members, packages, 

 spraying material, seeds, fertilizers, etc. Sales 

 of farm products amounted to $923,310 in 

 1927, and sales of farm supplies to $168,112, 

 making a total business for the year of 

 $1,091,422. 



The 11,400 active farmers' co-operative as- 

 sociations transacted business to the amount 

 of $2,300,000,000 in the 1927 marketing 

 season. This figure is less b»r $100,000,000 

 than the total business for the 10,803 associa- 

 tions listed by the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture in 1926. Had prices of farm products, 

 and the prices of supplies bought by farmers, 

 been as high in 19i27 as in 1926 the total 

 business of the co-operatives would have 

 been in excess of $2,500,000,000. 



The largest amount of business credited to 

 any one group was $680,000,000, this being 

 the sum of the transactions by the associa- 

 tions handling grain. The associations 

 marketing dairy products had a total business 

 of $620,000,000; the livestock associations, 

 $320,000,000; the fruit and vegetable associa- 

 tions, $300,000,000: the associations market- 

 ing cotton, $97,000,000; the poultry and egg 

 association, $40,000,000; the nut marketing 

 associations, $14,600,000; tobacco associa- 

 tions, $22,000,000; and the associations 

 handling wool, $7,000,000. The business of the 

 associations selling miscellaneous products and 

 buying farm supplies amounted to nearly 

 $200,000,000. 



The Illinois Agricultural Co-opera- 

 tive Association announces the ap- 

 pointment of J. P. Adams as resident 

 auditor in charge of the Champaign 

 office, effective November 12, 1928. 



Adams was a student of the College 

 of Commerce, University of Illinois, 

 for three years. He is a graduate of 

 the University of Indiana where he 

 specialized in accounting. He was 

 formerly a member of the staff of 

 Haskins & Sells, certified public ac- 

 countants, at their Detroit office. 



Tlie Illinoia Agricultural Mutual In- 

 surance Company reported 10,599 au- 

 tomobile policies in force on Novem- 

 ber 15. 



Total asset* of the company as of 

 October 31 were $22,158.41. , j 



"Some farmers like to milk so well 

 they keep ten poor cows rather than 

 five good ones," says "Ye Farme Cos- 

 sipe" of Clemson College, South 

 Carolina. 



For land's sake lime your soil! 



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