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munity organizations with warehousing facilities, in 

 order best to serve the farmers' interests. 



A little farther removed from the farm but still 

 directly related to it is the organization of coopera- 

 tive consumers associations for the purchase of foods 

 and other supplies for the home and household. 

 These organizations form convenient units for deal- 

 ing directly with farmers' marketing exchanges in the 

 purchase of farm products and are a promising de- 

 velopment in the marketing situation. They, with 

 the produce exchanges, form efficient centers on the 

 two sides of the producing and consuming business 

 on the basis of which the intermediate machinery for 

 more efficient interchange may be built. 



Two other factors in marketing are storage 

 facilities and credit. In 1911, there is reported to 

 have been condemned in the markets in New York 

 City 73,785 pounds of eggs, 35,755 pounds of fish 

 and 200,000 pounds of poultry. Storage develops at 

 two places primarily, at the centers of production 

 and at the centers of consumption. In New York 

 the various products are cared for by local, usually 

 private, storages, warehouses and elevator cold storage 

 plants at the local shipping stations. In the fruit 

 region in western New York, there are large refriger- 

 ation and common storage plants at the main fruit- 

 producing stations, mostly on the New York Central 

 lines. Most of this is said to be owned or controlled 

 by dealers. The storage facilities in the larger cities 

 are gauged to meet the requirements of the mini- 

 mum amount of produce and the highest practicable 



