156 MARKETING AND THE MIDDLEMAN 



Marketing and Farm Credits Conference," Chicago, 1915, 141-151; KITTLE, 

 W. J.: "Distribution of Whole Milk in Chicago" (same volume), 152-158; 

 Chicago Milk Producers Association: "Marketing and Farm Credits Confer- 

 ence,^ Chicago, 1913, 128-131; Report of Fair Price Milk Committee of the 

 City of New York and the Commission on High Cost of Living," Legislative 

 Document No. 29, New York, 1920; "Primary Report of Joint Committee on 

 Dairy Products, Livestock and Poultry," 1917 (So-called Wicks Report, 

 Albany, N. Y.); "Development of the Cooperative Associations Controlling 

 Dairy Production in the United States from 1906 to 1916," Hoard's Dairy- 

 man, Nov. 3, 1916. (Same, reviewed in International Review of Agricultural 

 Economics, Feb., 1917, 37-39); ABBOTT, STANLEY H.: "Experience of the 

 Boston Cooperative Milk Producers Company with the Sherman Anti-Trust 

 Act, Bulletin 35, Dept. of Ag., Albany, 1912, 1127-1133; "Report of Governors' 

 Tri-State Milk Commission to Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Dela- 

 ware," 1917. 



Also following publications of milk product companies: "The Powder 

 Magazine, Syracuse, N. Y., Published by Merrell-Soule Co. Also: "The Milk 

 Dealer," Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The National Journal for the city milk trade: 

 official organ of the International Milk Dealers Association, and the Minne- 

 sota Milk Dealers Association. 



Also following miscellaneous WARBER, G. P.: "A Study of Prices and 

 Quality of Creamery Butter," Bulletin 682, U. S. D. A., July, 1918; POTTS, 

 ROY C., AND MEYER, H. F.: "Marketing Creamery Butter," Bulletin 456, 

 U. S. D. A., 1917; POTTS, ROY C.: "Marketing Practices of Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota Creameries," Bulletin 690, U. S. D. A., 1918; MACKLIN, THEODORE : 

 "The Marketing of Kansas Butter," Bulletin 216, Kans. Ag. Ex. Sta., 1917; 

 LARKIN, M. LIPPIT: "The Butter Market," Journal of Political Economy, 

 March) 1912, 267-274; "Butter Prices from Producer to Consumer," Bulletin 

 164, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, 1914; HIBBARD, B. H., AND 

 ERDMAN, H. E.: "Marketing Wisconsin Milk," Bulletin 285, Wise. Ag. Exp. 

 Sta., 1917; TAYL9R, H. C., SCHOENFELD, W. A., AND WEHRWEIN, G. S. : " The 

 Marketing of Wisconsin Cheese," Bulletin 231, Wise. Ag. Exp. Sta., 1913; 

 "Investigation and Analysis of the Production, Transportation, Inspection, 

 and Distribution of Milk and Cream in New England," prepared by the Boston 

 Chamber of Commerce, Bulletin 22, Department of Ag. of Vermont, St. 

 Albans, July, 1915; "British National Milk Policy," Hoard's Dairyman, Feb. 

 6, 1920, 126; "Cooperative Dairymen in Vancouver," Grain Grower's Guide, 

 Oct. 22, 1919, 8; HOLMAN, CHAS.: "Ohio Milk Producers Jailed," American 

 Cooperative Journal, Sept., 1919; "Detroit Milk Situation," Michigan Farmer, 

 Dec. 8, 1917; HEDRICK, W. O., AND ANDERSON, A. C.: "The Detroit Commis- 

 sion Plan of City Milk Administration," Special Bulletin 99, Michigan Ag. 

 College, 1919. 



APPENDIX 



The Mail Order House. The mail order house is an agricultural problem 

 for two somewhat incongruous reasons. In the first place the big honest mail 

 order house renders the farmer a big service by bringing to his mailbox or to 

 his nearest freight depot, a standard set of goods at a fair cash price. It also, 

 however, by this same service, is a competitor of the nearby village merchants, 

 and this competition may sap the life of the country town. And the country 

 town is the one strong element in raising land values, bringing to the isolated 

 farmer the services of doctors, dentists, bankers, merchants, and others, and 

 adding in innumerable ways to the fullness of farm life. 



This is not the proper place to enter into a prolonged discussion of the 

 merits and demerits of a mail order house. There is one way, at least, to 

 meet the situation, fair to both sides. It is illustrated by the case of the house- 

 wife who made out her grocery order, amounting to $50.12, from the latest 



