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organ. The following are state or local organs: Farmers' Union, Salina, Kans.; 

 Pacific Farmers' Union, Spokane, Wash. ; Colorado Union Farmer, Denver, Col. ; 

 Farmers' Union Messenger, Ft. Worth, Texas; Nebraska Union Farmer, Omaha, 

 Neb.; Iowa Union Farmer, Columbus Junction, Iowa; Union Helper, Mt. 

 Vernon, 111.; James River Clarion, Lynchburg, Va. 



4. Gleaners, Gleaner and Business Farmer, Detroit, Mich. 



5. Patrons of Husbandry, National Grange Monthly, Springfield, Mass. 



6. National Milk Producers' Federation (no organ). 



Federation of Farmers 



7. American Federation of Farm Bureaus (no organ). 



Political Organizations 



8. Nonpartisan League, Nonpartisan Leader, St. Paul, Minn. 



The Farmer in Business. "The farmer's interest in the great staple 

 crops of cereals, cotton, wool, sugar beets, sugar cane, hay, beef and pork ceases 

 when he sells the crop. Because orange and apple growers, some truck growers 

 and milk and dairy producers have developed somewhat in marketing enter- 

 prises, all consumerdom has undertaken to say, and, worse than that, to really 

 think that the farmer can market his products to consumers. 



"Mr. Hamilton talks and thinks about buying food direct from the pro- 

 ducers. He would have considerable trouble in buying sugar of the sugar beet 

 grower; or flour of the wheat grower, or pork of the hog raiser. He tried a few 

 years ago to help start a "farmers' " market in his city, and along with several 

 hundred other business men is now unable to understand why it has "degener- 

 ated" into a "huckster's" market. That mental hiatus has functioned again. 



"The facts are that the farmer who is really farming, working out a well- 

 considered plan for farm operation which accounts for every day and every 

 acre ; work for his men, rain or shine ; and work for his stock and his machinery 

 which will make each individual item .self-sustaining, has no time, no surplus 

 energy, no talent and no training for selling. He does not wish to subject 

 himself to the disagreeable features of peddling, or selling over the counter. 

 His life habits are directed to production and sale in bulk. Mr. Hamilton 

 would not think of turning his sales over to the foreman of his machine shop, 

 but he would do worse when he expects the successful farmer to enter the selling 

 game. And if a group of farmers unite and hire a salesman, and provide facili- 

 ties for distribution, it is an open question if they can or will market and 

 distribute their products at any economy over the present competitive dis- 

 tribution system." "What Mr. Hamilton Doesn't Know," by T. C. Atkeson, 

 Washington Representative of the National Grange. The Nation's Business, 

 October, 1919, p. 26. 



