CO-OPERATIVE LAMB SELLING 



Furnishes a Market for the Man With a Half Dozen Lambs. 

 Co-Operative Selling is Successful if Well Managed 



In communities where farmers raise small bunches of fat lambs 

 they can be successfully marketed in a co-operative way by making 

 up car lots and shipping to good markets, instead of selling to a 

 local buyer at a sacrifice as is sometimes done. 



Occasionally the local market is the best and more can be 

 realized from a bunch of lambs by selling them a few at a time 

 as local customers or butchers want them. When there is no 

 good local market the co-operative selling association will solve 

 the problem. 



Such associations are successfully operating in several counties 

 in the United States. They need not be for selling sheep or lambs 

 alone. Lamb selling can be carried on by an association formed 

 for the purchase or sale of any product. 



Selling clubs or associations must be managed in a business-like 

 way and the members must not be "Kickers." 



Selling organizations can never be profitably operated unless 

 some one who is competent is in charge and the members agree to 

 abide by the decisions of the manager or directors. 



The plan for selling lambs, wool, or any farm product must be 

 worked out to fit the conditions of the locality. ' 



In some sections where lambs are sold co-operatively the 

 Secretary or Manager of the organization after consulting with the 

 farmers advises either in the local paper or by letter that on a 

 certain day a shipment of lambs will be made and for farmers to 

 communicate with him at once as to how many and what kind 

 of lambs they can furnish. 



This gives the manager a chance to arrange for shipment and 

 also gives the farmers a chance to sell the lambs that are then 

 ready for market. 



The smaller lambs and the ones not yet fat enough can be held 

 until another shipment is made. 



This plan of selling opens a market for the man with two or 

 three lambs as well as for the man with twenty. 



The sellers must agree to abide by the market prices for the 

 grade to which their lambs belong. 



In selling car loads a better price can usually be obtained by 

 selling all the lambs of one grade together, regardless of who the 

 consignor is. 



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