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produced that can be handled as a staple commodity, 

 and if milk powder can be revived with all the physi- 

 cal and chemical properties of fresh milk, it may 

 take away the special advantage of New York in 

 the dairy business. Milk is produced cheapest where 

 feed and forage are cheapest and on the whole this is 

 recognized to be in the Middle West. 



5. In marketing, manufacture and distribution, 

 the following subjects are of outstanding importance : 

 Conformity on the part of farmers to a normal unit 

 of shipment, which is usually the carload ; establish- 

 ing of standard grades of farm products ; storage for 

 seasonal products; effort to put the products of the 

 farm in such preserved and manufactured form as 

 to make them stable articles of commerce the year 

 round; publicity on the visible supply and current 

 prices for all food products by grades; encourage- 

 ment of community assembling and packing facilities 

 as the starting-point of the handling of farm pro- 

 duce. The ultimate object in all plans is to insure 

 to the producer a fair return on his effort and to 

 the consumer a reasonable price. The taking of toll 

 by a large number of intermediaries reveals the crude 

 nature of the present practices in distribution and 

 selling, and works injustice at both ends of the line. 

 Public oversight of many of these practices is a neces- 

 sity if justice is to be accomplished. 



6. The rural educational and social facilities need 

 great extension, particularly in these lines: voca- 

 tional training in the grades as well as better teach- 

 ing generally in the rural schools and in larger units; 



