

Another Instance was in the repor 

 of wheat plantings^ in Bombay. Th 

 report reached the farmers of the Mid 



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die West only an hour after the plant 

 ings. This, too, was owing to change 

 of time. 









Perhaps you, Mrs. Householder, won- 

 dered how It happened that the price 

 of lemons took such a jump just on the 









day that you had promised to con 

 tribute three dozen for the Sundaj 

 school picnic. Tour grocer merely ad- 

 vanced the Information that "lemons 

 were up," but neither of you knew that 

 a storm in Sicily and information from 















a big clearing house in Rome had any- 

 thing to do with it. 



VALUE OF CO-OPERATIVE SERVICE 









Mrs. "Ware could have told you just 

 why. She receives the reports and 









knows what is responsible for this con- 

 dition, and for that. And her great in- 

 terest In life today is to make the 

 Maine farmer, the western farmer and 

 the southern farm-er realize just what 

 co-operative service means to him and 

 to the public, as well. For co-operative 

 service Is a sutiject that enters into 

 the general scheme of thinsrs. ton. anil 





















a matter that was being given close 

 attention in Europe long before Ameri- 

 ca had awakened to the advantages of 







co-operative associations among its 

 farmer folk. 

 Rurope was far in advance of iis on 





this subject back in 1013, Mrs. Ware 

 1 concedes, and realizes today the ad- 

 1 vantages of worklnfr throuffh an an-' 





soclatlon rather than through middle- 

 men and individuals, each of Avhom has 

 to have a piece of the oroflt. Tndav 





the Maine potato . farmer belongs to 

 sorne co-operative potato growers' as- 

 .sooiatlon which operates thrnuE-h nno 





agent and one clearing house. The 

 strawberry growers on Cape Cod. the 

 poultry farmers in Vermont and New 

 Hampshire, all pattern their co-opera- 

 .^^foc'ations on the European 

 such is the case. 



The Maine farmer pays nothing for 

 such service, neither does the mfn in 

 California, or Texas, or South Caro- 

 ihT'-^ir. maintenance of 

 the institute is borne by the various 



















governments and their quota is allotted 

 to them on a treaty basis. The United 

 States, with Its dependencies, would 

 pay more than Chile, and Great Brit- 

 fi".^ ^^^^ ^" e'^cesa of 

 that of Denmark by this arrange^nent. 



Leased wires direct to Washington 

 make it a simple matter to get in touch 

 with the very latest information from 















Kome in the shortest possible time 

 Consequently, when a man actually 

 walked into the department and asked 







what the imports of 'butter from Den- 

 mark had been in the pa,st month, It 

 was an easy enough matter to find out 







A query to Washington, another to 

 Rome, and inside of one half hour the 

 correct figures were at hand. Every 







state has a sl.milar service, if the farm- 

 er and the agriculturist would only im- 

 prove the opportunity and learn how 







to make use of it. 



Spreading this information, dissem- 

 inating the facts of the institute and 





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aiding in its efficiency is Mrs. Ware's 

 job, as secretary of the American com- 

 mittee. It is to do this work to the 







best of her ability, to function to the 

 utmost of her capacity, that slie- trav- 

 els to Rome as a delegate each alter- 







nate year and makes innumerable trips 

 to Washington in the interests of the 

 committee's affairs. 



Her desk is littered with mail bear- 

 ing all sorts of foreign stamps and her 

 telephone bell is constantly ringing. 

 And the more ^rnail she receives, and 

 the more telephone calls that come to 

 her, the better Is she satisfied that the 

















plished and that the dream of its 

 founder, David Lubin, is coming some- 

 where near to reallocation. 







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