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Country  Wide  Produce  Condition* 
PRICES  IN  THE  AIK ;  GRAIN  SHIPPERS’  BIG 
EXPERIMENT ;  HARD  CONDITIONS  IN 
,  NORTHERN  POTATO  COUNTRY. 
The  air  is  full  of  market  prices  nowa¬ 
days.  Many  farm  folks  are  picking  up 
the  daily  reports  with  radio  outfits,  home- 
built  or  ready-made.  There  are  about  a 
dozen  large  sending  stations  covering  the 
greater  part  of  the  thickly  settled  regions, 
besides  many  small  stations.  A  new  series 
of  reports  is  being  sent  out  from  the 
powerful  Arlington  Station  near  the  Na¬ 
tional  Capital,  with  wires  500  feet  in  the 
air  and  higher  than  the  Washington  mon¬ 
ument.  It  is  just  across  the  river  from 
Washington,  and  the  sending  field  reaches 
up  into  New  England,  down  through  the 
Carolinas,  and  west  to  Pittsburgh,  or 
further  under  favorable  conditions. 
FARMERS  LISTEN  IN 
Practically  all  sorts  of  farm  products 
are  kept  going  out  the  greater  part  of  the 
day,  but  fortunately  one  may  skip  any 
or  all  of  it  or  he  may  listen  in  at  about 
the  time  his  own  lines  of  holdings  are 
quoted  on  the  big  markets  or  at  country 
•shipping  points.  County  farm  bureau 
agents  sometimes  do  the  listening  for  the 
whole  district  and  pass  along  the  market 
news  to  those  interested.  It  is  not  quite 
so  easy  now  for  the  dealers  to  catch  the 
farmers  napping.  That  is  fortunate,  be¬ 
cause  every  hard-earned  penny,  the  crop  is 
worth,  is  needed  on  the  farm.  Even 
though  the  farmer  is  still  helpless  against 
conntry-wide  low  prices,  it  is  some  ad¬ 
vantage  in  the  long  run  to  have  the  facts. 
Then  a  man  has  an  equal  market  chance 
with  his  neighbors  and  competitors. 
GETTING  TIIK  MONEY 
After  knowing  the  price  the  next  thing 
for  the  farmer  is  to  get  more  of  that  price 
into  his  purse.  Will  co-operation  do  it? 
Many  of  the  successes  in  co-operation 
among  producers  have  been  with  products 
<»f  varieties  grown  in  such  a  limited  area 
that  the  growers  could  get  together  easily, 
but  the  staple,  crops,  including  grain,  hay, 
cattle,  cotton  and  potatoes  are  grown  by 
millions  of  farmers,  and  it  is  hard,  slow 
and  costly  to  get  any  kind  of  united 
action. 
HOW  GRAIN  GROWERS  WON 
The  Western  grain  growers  seem  to 
have  scored  the  greatest  success  so  far. 
They  started  co-operative  grain  elevators 
at  one  station  after  another.  The  private 
grain  buyers  had  been  paying  almost 
whatever  they  pleased  for  the  farmers’ 
grain  and  there  was  no  other  place  to  take 
the  crop  and  get  the  money.  The  dealers 
fought  hard  for  some  time.  Not  a  city 
receiver  would  handle  the  farmers’  grain 
direct  because  the  old  line  elevator  men 
said  the  new  scheme  would  fall  through 
and  then  they  would  have  nothing  to  do 
with  city  firms  who  had  handled  grain 
from  the  farmers’  co-operative  elevators. 
After  a.  while,  one  Chicago  firm  dared  to 
buy  of  the  farmers.  Others  followed,  and 
soon  they  were  all  begging  for  the  co¬ 
operative  grain.  Eater  the  old  elevators, 
owned  by  the  dealers,  were  given  up  or 
sold  to  farmers,  and  over  large  regions 
the  grain  growers  have  the  country  end 
of  the  business  in  their  own  hands. 
POTATO  GROWERS  TRYING 
McCormick-Deering 
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Tillag 
Implements 
The  McCormick-Deering  Disk  Harrow  i9  a 
simple  and  efficient  implement,  built  and  trussed 
like  a  steel  bridge,  to  serve  many  years.  You  will  like 
the  details  and  conveniences — the  dust-proof  bear¬ 
ings  and  the  bearing  oil  cups  set  above  the  frame, 
the  built-in  angle-steel  weight  boxes,  the  oscillating 
disk  scrapers,  the  forecarriage,  etc.  Made  in  sizes  for 
everybody — 4  to  10  feet.  All  sizes  can  be  equipped 
with  the  tandem  attachment  which  is  shown  above. 
Double  disking  is  popular  —  farmers  know  that  it 
more  than  pays  for  itself. 
SEED- bed  making  will  call  for  fast  and 
thorough  work  this  year  as  always.  The 
planting  season  will  roll  around  in  a  twinkl¬ 
ing,  but  no  matter  how  few  the  days  between 
plowing  and  planting  you  can  have  a  profit¬ 
building  soil  by  using  efficient  equipment. 
McCormick-Deering  Tillage  Implements 
combine  the  three  essentials — good  work,  long 
life  and  convenience.  They  are  of  practical  de¬ 
sign,  their  construction  being  based  on  ninety 
years  of  farm  and  factory  experience.  They  are 
priced  on  the  basis  of  economical  quantity 
production,  and  as  an  investment  they  offer 
you  attractive  returns. 
To  Fill  All  Your  Tillage  Tool  Needs  See 
the  McCormick-Deering  Dealer .  It  Pays! 
INTERNATIONAL  HARVESTER  COMPANY 
The  McCormick-Deering  Lever  less  Disk  Har¬ 
row  is  a  genuine  tractor  disk,  not  a  made-over  horse 
harrow.  It  is  built  for  heaviest  duty.  It  is  controlled 
entirely  from  the  driver’s  seat,  without  levers,  yet  it 
is  very  simple.  Merely  backing  the  tractor  automati¬ 
cally  sets  the  angle  of  both  front  and  rear  gangs.  When 
the  tractor  starts  forward  the  gangs  hold  that  angle 
until  released  by  a  pull  on  the  rope.  In  5  to  10-foot 
sizes  to  fit  your  power. 
CHICAGO 
OF  AMERICA 
(INCORPORATED) 
USA 
The  Dunham  Culti-Packer  has  no  equal  as  a 
seed-bed  finisher.  It  pulverizes  the  soil,  fills  out  air 
spaces,  and  saves  moisture  content.  Following  the  drill, 
it  helps  the  little  plants  to  gst  a  quick  start,  firmly 
set  in  finely  mulched  soil.  Use  it  to  prevent  winter- 
killing  of  wheat;  to  rejuvenate  meadows,  etc.  It  is  far 
ahead  of  a  roller  for  small  grains.  Made  in  eight  sizes, 
lor  horse  and  tractor  use. 
In  half  a  dozen  States  the  potato  grow¬ 
ers  have  been  trying  to  organize  to  sell 
the  crop.  These  State  organizations  are 
composed  of  a  large  number  of  local  co¬ 
operative  associations  which  market  the 
crops  of  their  members  with  the  aid  of 
the  State  organizations.  Many  thousands 
of  carloads  have  been  handled  by  associa¬ 
tions  of  Minnesota,  Wisconsin,  Michigan, 
New  York,  Maine,  New  Jersey  and 
Florida,  and  by  similar  associations  in 
many  other  States.  Few.  if  any  of  the 
larger  associations  have  been  operated 
long  enough  to  be  considered  a  sure  suc¬ 
cess.  The  present  year  with  its  desperate 
conditions  for  potato  growers  many  help 
drive  them  to  new  and  possibly  better 
selling  methods. 
The  Minnesota  farmer  submits  a 
cashed-in  cheek  for  $1.30,  representing 
the  entire  net  proceeds  of  a  carload  of 
700  bushels  of  sacked  potatoes  shipped  to 
Minneapolis  through  a  potato  growers’  or¬ 
ganization.  The  potatoes  brought  nearly 
50c  a  bushel,  which  was  not  very  bad  for 
that  market  at  the  time.  The  freight 
charges  took  over  half  the  money,  and 
the  commission,  heating  charges,  shrink¬ 
age  and  incidental  costs  took  the  rest,  all 
hut  $1.30.  (No,  I  do  not  mean  $130.) 
The  farmer  had  paid  $35  for  the  bags 
alone,  not  to  mention  buying  the  .seed, 
•nising  the  crop  and  getting  it  ready  for 
shipment.  There  are  other  reports  from 
the  Northern  potato  country  nearly  as 
bad,  and  it  appears  that  even  ivhen 
shipped  through  large  organizations  the 
returns  are  not  necessarily  much  better, 
in  a  season  of  bad  market  conditions. 
Some  of  these  returns  show  nets  of  much 
less  thau  lc  per  bushel.  No  wonder  the 
farmers  in  remote  producing  sections, 
who  left  the  crop  in  the  ground,  feel  in¬ 
clined  to  congratulate  themselves.  The 
old  saying  “land  poor”  might  have  been 
superseded  with  “potato  poor”  the  past 
season.  g.  b.  f.  j 
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irv  ff  Jim  Brown 
i  Ft/ ff Jim  Brown 
Has  Done  To  Prices 
Bigger  Savings  Than  Ever 
onFencing, Gates, Posts, Paint, Roofing 
I’ve  knocked  the  bottom  out  of  prices. 
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PRICES,  FREIGHT  PREPAID, 
means  enormous  savings  for  you. 
Quality,  as  always,  the  best  in  the 
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GUARANTEE. 
Direct  from  Factory 
FREIGHT  PREPAID 
Yes,  I  pay  the  freight.  You  pay 
>nly  factory  prices— l  ship  di¬ 
rect  from  my  3  big  factories 
at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  Adrian, 
Mich.,  and  Memphis, 3Tenn., 
also  from  warehouses  at 
Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and 
Davenport,  Iowa. 
FREE 
My  big  new 
BARGAIN 
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Okolona,  Mies. 
Saved  $50 
"The  Wearbest  Paint  is  more 
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