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The list of other commodities purchased through the 

 Bureau iucludes tile, harness, tires, cotton-seed meal, 

 oil-meal, feed, coal, building materials, and posts. 

 Great savings resulted from the operations of the 

 traffic department in adjusting claims against the 

 railroads, which secured 4,711 refrigerator cars for 

 the handling of fruit during the season, thus effecting 

 large savings to producers in a falling market and 

 rapid marketing of the crop. Cooperation between 

 the railroads and the shippers is facilitated through 

 this agency. The Bureau takes credit for the unusual 

 amount of agricultural legislation enacted at the 1921 

 session of the legislature.^ 



In the spring of 1921, the forest products depart- 

 ment of the Michigan State Farm Bureau divorced 

 itself, and, under the designation the "Michigan 

 Forest Products Bureau," undertook to continue this 

 specialized service to the farmers of the State. It 

 was planned that this service and inspection should 

 include : timber estimating, land classification, scal- 

 ing and inspection of timber and lumber, schemes of 

 forest planting and protection, and the listing and 

 sale of forest products and property. As matters 

 stand, on the marketing side, this service involves 

 the disposal of forest products grown chiefly in the 

 northern counties to farmers in the southern coun- 

 ties whose local supply is now inadequate. The 

 Bureau's office remains in Lansing. 



In order to obtain the benefits of cooperative sell- 



^Mich. State Farm Bur., Xeics Service, No. 68, May 21, 

 1921. 



