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In addition, the G.L.F. carries the following stock of standard 

 ingredients for home mixing: 



Choice recleaned yellow corn 46-pound barley- 

 Yellow sifted cracked corn Corn gluten feed 

 Fancy yellow corn meal Choice white hominy 

 Yellow corn feed meal Standard bran 

 Corn and oats half and half ground Standard middlings 

 Recleaned white oats Choice flour middlings 

 40-pound white clipped oats Wheat mix feed 

 Crushed oats Cottonseed meal 43% 

 Ground oats Choice alfalfa meal 

 Fancy feed wheat O. P. oil meal 30% protein 



125. Manufacturing the feeds. — The American Milling 

 Company, Peoria, Illinois, one of the largest and most modern 

 feed-mixing plants in the country, watched the development of 

 farmer-owned co-operative corporations like the G.L.F. , and its 

 president and directors became convinced that the movement was 

 sound and likely to endure. Mr. H. G. Atwood, its president, 

 therefore entered into negotiations with the managers of the 

 Co-operative G.L.F. Exchange, the Eastern States Farmers 

 Exchange, the Pennsylvania Farmers' Co-operative Federation 

 and the Michigan Farm Bureau, and finally contracted to manu- 

 facture for them under their supervision the feeds recommended 

 by the agricultural colleges. 



As a result of all the co-operatives contracting with the American 

 Milling Company for the manufacture of their feeds, a tremendous 

 purchasing power was built up. This immediately placed them in 

 an enviable position as regards purchases and low manufacturing 

 costs. The feed department of the G.L.F. Exchange — and what 

 was true of it was equally true of the other co-operatives — found 

 itself in a position to furnish its members with high quality ready- 

 mixed rations of known ingredients and with public formulas at 

 lower costs than the most optimistic of its members had ever 

 anticipated. 



126. A successful feed pool.— During the fall of 1922 it 

 appeared to the management of the G.L.F. and Eastern States 

 Farmers Exchange that feed prices would be likely to go higher. 

 Both organizations accordingly got in touch with their members 



