FIFTY MILLION STRONG 



tive bodies charged with the responsibility of making rules, 

 that only such goods as answered requirements should be given 

 brands or labels, and that the commissioners of the several 

 states should cooperate with one another. There is quite a 

 number of organizations whose brands are famous. These are 

 found especially in fruit sections and dairy products districts. 

 Of the numerous cooperative enterprises in North America 

 possibly the largest, in point of products handled, may be 

 considered the three grain companies of Western Canada. 

 George F. Chipman, of Winnipeg, said these include 490 ele- 

 vators, which have already handled more than 250,000,000 

 bushels of grain at a profit of $1,600,000. The speaker pre- 

 dicted that they would eventually handle three-fourths of the 

 grain crop of Canada and go extensively into the other lines 

 of business having to do with the farmer. 



Thirteen states now have marketing bureaus, which are 

 giving special attention to the marketing of farm crops. 

 W. G. Scholtz, director of the Idaho Department of Markets, 

 said his state is doing three important things through the 

 recently established department of which he is director. It 

 conducts a free employment bureau to assist farmers to secure 

 laborers, and laborers to get work. It aims to eliminate 

 fraud in land sales and helps buyers to find land at reasonable 

 prices. It aids in the marketing of farm products at maxi- 

 mum prices. Clarence Ousley, of Texas, claimed there was a 

 preventable waste in the cotton crop of the South running as 

 high as $300,000,000, and this was largely due to faulty han- 

 dling, marketing and transporting. To eliminate this waste 

 within her own borders, Texas passed a warehouse law pro- 

 viding for the storage not only of cotton, but of all other 

 agricultural products. Through regulated ginning, baling, 

 sampling and grading, Texas 'hopes to save her farmers mil- 

 lions of dollars annually, and, through the issuance of ware- 

 house receipts, make it possible to borrow money on stored 

 cotton, thus preventing the annual dumping of cotton on the. 

 market. 



The officers of the thirteen state marketing bureaus recently 

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