396 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRL\TION BILL, 1024. 



to produce a pound of cotton or a bushel of wheat under proper 

 conditions, the average cost tliroughout the United States, under 

 proper farm management and farm organization. Now, that would 

 be a valuable fact. 



Doctor Taylor. We are trying to ascertain that, and also what 

 would be the proper type of farm management. I take it that 

 that is in line with vour remark. < 



Mr. Buchanan. Ves; so that they can improve their methods. 



INVESTIGATION OF MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTING OF FARM PRODUCTS. 



Mr. Anderson. We will take up the next item on page 275. '' For > 

 acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful 

 informafion on subjects connected with the marketing, handling, 

 utilization, grading, transportation, and distributing of farm and 

 nonmanufactured fruit products, and the purchasing of farm sup- 

 plies," etc. i 



Doctor Taylor. I shall ask Mr. Tenny to present the statement 

 on this item. 



Mr. Tenny. This appropriation corresponds somewhat to the one 

 that Doctor Tavlor has been discussing, in that it is an appropriation 

 for the study oi the whole field of marketing and distribution of farm , 



products. i 



There is an apparent increase in this appropriation of S79,220: but t 



due to the transfer of eight employees to the statutory roll with total 

 salaries of $10,780, there is an actual increase in the item of S90,000. 



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This appropriation is used to cover the research studv of the 

 processes of marketing and distribution, beginning at the farm and 

 moving through to the terminal markets, or practically all of the 

 work that is (lone in methods of marketing. The work that is done 

 in studying the costs of marketing, and practically all of the work 

 that is done in standardization of farm products and live-stock 

 products, is done under this appropriation. This is chiefly a research 

 field, but the language of the appropriation is sufliciently broad, so 

 that in connection with the extension service we do a considerable 

 amount of extension work also under the ap|)ropriation. This work 

 is divided into a number of very well-di'iined projects, and to get 

 the story of the wiiole appropriation it is necessary to take up the 

 individual projects. 



The first one is entitled "Cooperative j^urchasing and marketing." 

 There is no change in the amount of the allotment that we are pro- 

 posing for this project. The nature of the work in cooperative 

 marketing, as I think was brought out last year, has been consid- ^ 



(•ial)ly changed within the last tw(» yeai's. and now we are devoting 

 pi'actically all of this allotment t(» what might l)e termed economic 

 studies of cooperative nuirketing. 



These studies took the form first of an investigation of the legal 

 })hases of cooperative marketing, and that work has been earned 

 on and brought pretty nearly to a <-on(lusion. with a bulletin that 

 has just recently been published on the legal pha.ses of cooperative 

 associations. There has been a very wide demand for this l)idletin. 



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