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purchase fertilizer cooperatively. The value of the fertilizer so pur- 

 chased by these organizations was $3,630,195, and the estimated sav- 

 ing due to cooperative purchasing was $532,100. 



Gakdexs. A part of the general work in the Southern States in 

 1018 was the campaign for home gardens. Other forces were in the 

 field, but the county agents organized this movement in practically 

 every county in 1918, and the success of the movement was due mostly 

 to them. Special agents in charge of the garden work were ap- 

 pointed for the States of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, 

 North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. 

 In all of the other Southern States the specialists in horticulture and 

 the county and district agents conducted the campaign. Under war 

 conditions this campaign was definitely aimed at city and town 

 gardens as well as rural gardens. Complete data are not available, 

 but it is estimated that a total of more than 3,000,000 gardens in the 

 Soutli were the result of this campaign. 



COOPKRATIVE MARKETING AND PI KCIIASIXO. TllC Statement oftCU 



made that the colleges, the county agents, and the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture put all of their emphasis on production and 

 are not assisting the farmers with the difficult problems of market- 

 ing may be answered by saying that the county agents have every- 

 where worked with lx>dies of farmers organized for the purpose of 

 purchasing farm supplies and marketing farm products. Where 

 the marketing problem has been critical, the county agents have not 

 hesitated to quickly assist farmers and farmers' associations to 

 organize on tlic proper basis for making purchases or marketing 

 products. The South is just building its new agriculture, and in this 

 building problem many difficulties regarding the marketing of the 

 new i^roducts have arisen and all of the extension forces have realized 

 that it was necc&sary to help farmers to solve these problems. This 

 the marketing specialists and county agents are doing. The Bureau 

 of Markets of the department has a specialist in marketing, either in 

 direct or very close cooperation with the extension forces of the 

 colleges, in the following States: Virginia, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and 

 Kentucky. 



There have been many reasons for greatly extending marketing 

 efforts, as for example, the increased production of hogs and cattle 

 in the South, the necessity for organizing new systems to take* in 

 farjn products locally produced and distribute them to local markets, 

 tlio increased production of food and feed which had to be dis- 

 tributed through local organizations, the drought conditions in 

 western Texas and Oklahoma, and the Government sale of nitrate of 

 soda. 



The main items of business of this kind, in which the county agents 

 assisted, w^ere as follows : 



Fertilizer, lime, and the like, purchased amounted to 64,382 tons 

 valued at $1,900,122, exclusive of nitrate of soda; carloads of cattle 

 marketed 751, valued at $1,034,295; carloads of swine marketed 

 1,530, valued at $2,748,948; corn, wheat, and other grain marketed 

 1,395,900 bushels, valued at $1,590,448; miscellaneous agricultural 

 products marketed valued at $2,631,985. The grand total value of 



