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milk production interests, an auction of dairy cows was held under 

 the supervision of the Department. Farm shippers used the De- 

 partment in investigating claims against transportation companies. 

 A hay auction in New York City was undertaken but abandoned. 



Commissioner Dillon conceived the need of his State to be as 

 follows: "The first need of the producers of New York State is 

 to help them to organize into geographical or industrial groups, and 

 then to federate these units into one strong central agency. This 

 agency, by the help of the Department, would catalog the principal 

 crops of the State; know where they are located; know their condi- 

 tion and see that they are properly graded and packed. It would 

 keep advised of the conditions of the markets in the principal 

 cities of the country, and be in a position to direct shipments 

 where the best prices prevail." 



New York passed a new law in the year 1918, consolidating 

 the old Departments of Agriculture, Foods and Markets, Weights 

 and Measures, and the Cold Storage Administration of the Health 

 Department into a new Department of Farms and Markets. This 

 new Department in turn was divided into two Divisions, Division 

 of Agriculture and Division of Foods and Markets. Under the 

 Division of Foods arid Markets were created seven Bureaus, as 

 follows: Bureau of Markets and Storage; Bureau of Cooperative 

 Associations; Bureau of Food Standardization; Bureau of Food 

 Products; Bureau of Licenses; Bureau of Weights and Measures; 

 Regulative Bureau. Under this law the State of New York is 

 equipped with the most complete administrative machinery in 

 the field of marketing to be found in the United States. Aside 

 from investigation, advice, etc., provided for in all recent market 

 laws, this New York law provides for the establishment of public 

 markets in cities, towns and villages, and for State financial aid to 

 these markets to the extent of fifty per cent of the expense. 



North Carolina. This state is very active in its marketing 

 work. This work is done by the Division of Markets and Rural 

 Cooperation, located at the Agricultural Experiment Station, and 

 its Chief is responsible to the Director of the Experiment Station. 

 This marketing work is done in official cooperation with the State 

 Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Markets of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. The chief work falls 

 under four heads publication of weekly lists of farm products for 

 sale; investigations into marketing practices; promoting coopera- 

 tive organizations, particularly credit unions; and demonstrating 

 proper cotton grading. 



