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grain, livestock, dairy and fruit marketing, representing 

 farmers' organizations and sections of the country which, 

 were primarily interested in each commodity, and these 

 committees have done excellent work. The recommenda- 

 tions of the Grain Marketing Committee of Seventeen, 

 which made a thorough study of the subject of grain 

 marketing, have already been put into operation through 

 the organization of the United States Grain Growers, Inc., 

 which in November, 1921, reported 25,000 members own- 

 ing 50,000,000 bushels of grain. The Livestock Marketing 

 Committee has also made its report. This method of ap- 

 pointing large committees representing the various regional 

 farmers 7 organizations and the sections of the country 

 most concerned to study their problems together and to 

 make recommendations, has much to commend it and gives 

 promise of excellent results, although it has excited some 

 opposition on the part of other national farmers' organi- 

 zations, as well as dealers' associations. 



The Research and Legal Departments of the Federation 

 function mainly on problems that arise from time to time 

 in connection with the matters which the Federation is 

 handling. An information service has been set up by the 

 Information Department, which now sends out material 

 regularly to the member states and to the public generally 

 by means of news letters, pamphlets, books, cartoons and 

 moving pictures. 



PURPOSES AND PROGRAM 



The purposes and program of the Federation are pretty 

 well shown by the organization and work of the Depart- 

 ments. At the close of the first year's work, President 

 Howard said that its greatest achievement was the public 

 recognition of its representativeness and the confidence 



