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necessity for a definite policy with regard to the marketing and 

 distribution of agricultural products. Needless to say there is 

 disagreement on the details or even principles underlying such 

 a policy. Some points of general agreement are as follows: 



1. Much greater emphasis by investigators, educators, rural 

 leaders and administrators on the discovery and dissemina- 

 tion of facts and principles of scientific marketing. The 

 conviction that distribution problems have been slighted by 

 agricultural leaders and educators is definite and pro- 

 nounced. 



2. Business organization. Organization of farmers' corpora- 

 tions for marketing and wholesale handling of products. 



(a) The purposes are economic handling, preparation for 

 consumption, grading, standardizing, advertising, 

 eliminating wastes, storing, utilizing by-products, 

 transporting, equalizing distribution and providing re- 

 quirements of raw materials in quantity at wholesale 

 prices ; 



(b) Collective bargaining by farmers under adequate pro- 

 tective legislation to safeguard both farmers and con- 

 sumers; 



(c) Preparation, cleaning, packing and primary manufac- 

 ture of farm products, especially the manufacture of 

 byproducts and culls by farmers' corporations for the 

 purpose of conservation of food, saving of transporta- 

 tion and increasing returns to the farmer. 



3. Transportation. 



(a) Government aid in the planning and building of high- 

 ways. Government ownership of highways is sug- 

 gested as practicable and more desirable than owner- 

 ship of railways; 



(b) Encouragement of motor truck, freight and trolley 

 express for farm products; 



(c) Revision of freight rates with a view to agricultural 

 needs and economic distribution; 



(d) Shipment of partially prepared or finished products 

 rather than raw materials of agriculture. Approval 



