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American Agriculturist, February 3,1923 
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YOUR HORSES 
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Farmers Forced to Organize 
Because They Were Between Two Fires 
O NE of the great 
industrial and eco¬ 
nomic movements of the last half cen¬ 
tury has been the centralization of the 
control and operation of industries. 
The village manufacturers have been 
displaced by great corporations own¬ 
ing and operating large central plants 
with sales agencies throughout the civi¬ 
lized world. Each of these great or¬ 
ganizations is composed of many per- 
sons, united in 
corporate form, 
and engaged in 
collectively pro¬ 
ducing and selling 
their respective 
wares. From them 
the farmers must 
purchase their 
supplies. 
While these 
great organiza¬ 
tions sometimes 
abuse their pow¬ 
er, as a whole, 
they stand for 
efficiency and 
economy, and are 
now' such a part 
of the business 
structure of the 
country that their 
overthrow would 
stagger com¬ 
merce. Nor was 
this process of 
centralization in 
m a n u f a 'c turing 
indusiries alone. 
The purveyors of 
farm .products 
did likewise until 
in course of time 
farmers found 
that usually the 
buyer of their 
products was a 
non - competitive 
one, and that 
they were the one 
great group that 
bought at retail, 
sold at whole¬ 
sale, and in both 
cases at prices 
dictated by oth¬ 
ers. 
Finding them¬ 
selves thus caught 
between the upper 
and lower mill- 
s t 0 n es, farmers 
sought a remedy, 
and soon found 
that they alone 
were to blame for 
their condition, in that while this process 
of centralization was going on all 
around them, they and they alcme con¬ 
tinued to attempt to market singly. 
Through great tribulation they came 
up to higher ground from whence they 
could see that it was their clear duty 
to follow in part the course of those 
engaged in other industries and to 
unite in large numbers and engage in 
collective marketing. 
The past ten years have therefore 
witnessed a remarkable gi’owth and de¬ 
velopment of farmers’ cooperative mar¬ 
keting associations. In ever-increasing 
numbers they have been formed and it 
is estimated that through them one 
billion dollars’ worth of farm products 
will be marketed in the year nineteen 
hundred and twenty-three. Experience 
has shown that this cooperative move¬ 
ment will in due time eliminate the 
speculator and gambler in foods, but 
need not mean the elimination of mid¬ 
dlemen performing necessary functions. 
Wages or Commissions? 
It is immaterial to farmers whether 
the expenses of distributing their prod¬ 
ucts are paid in the form of wages_ or 
by a commission to old agencies having 
marketing facilities if and only if, such 
old agencies distribute economically at 
a fair profit and do not use their con¬ 
trol of marketing facilities to unduly 
depress prices to farmers or to unduly 
increase prices to city consumers. 
Whenever and wherever such old 
agencies refuse to so ’cooperate farmers 
do not hesitate to create distributing- 
agencies of their own. 
' In solving the complex marketing 
problems, it has been 
found that, as to com¬ 
modities highly perishable, as' is milk, 
means should be adopted by which 
all surplus may be manufactured into 
by-products, and as to all commodities, 
marketing should be orderly so that 
each producer may always have a mar¬ 
ket and that each city should always 
be supplied with quantities adequate, 
and never more than adequate, to its 
needs. 
The general 
public now rec¬ 
ognize that these 
associations are 
for the publio 
good. Such op¬ 
position as they 
encountered in 
the early days 
was based upon 
a misunderstand¬ 
ing of their ob- 
j e c t s and pur¬ 
poses. By mar¬ 
keting their prod- 
u c t s efficiently 
farmers will re¬ 
ceive a higher 
price without in¬ 
crease of price to 
consumers, while 
such higher 
prices to farmers 
stimulate produc¬ 
tion, insuring 
adequate f u t ure 
supplies. 
In a larger 
way, these asso¬ 
ciations will pro¬ 
mote public good, 
in that through 
them the farmers 
will take the 
place to which 
they are entitled 
in the business 
life of the coun¬ 
try. As members 
of these co.nmer- 
cial o r g a n i z a- 
tions, far -n e r s 
must earnestly 
consider economic 
problems tr ereto- 
f'o r e 'S e e n as 
through a glass, 
darkly, and the 
discus si on of 
which was con¬ 
sidered as more 
or less academic. 
Selling their 
products singly 
to the first-com¬ 
er, they were re¬ 
mote from world activities and world 
problems. Now, the disorder in Russia 
and the cheap money of Gerniany are 
reflected in the check farmers receive 
from their association. 
It has been charged that these as¬ 
sociations are socialistic. This is er¬ 
ror. They are an aggressive negation 
of socialism. There is no community 
of property, but only a temporary 
blendinjg of products for marketing, 
and this for private gain. Based on 
the right of private property, they can 
not exist with State socialism and it 
may be that they have come in to be¬ 
ing for such a time as this when by 
their weight thrown into the balance, 
they may be the deciding factor in 
preserving the ancient landmarks, while 
by increasing the buying power of 
forty million people, they bring in¬ 
creased prosperity to all industries. 
POOLED PRICE LEADS COUNTRY 
Some statements by Albert Manning, 
Secretary of the Dairymen’s League 
Cooperative Association in regard to 
the December pool pi'ice are so im¬ 
portant that they should have consider¬ 
ation by every farmer. Mr. Manning 
says: ^ 
“So far as we have received reports 
as to the prices received by producers 
in other large milk consuming centers 
of the country, our net pooled price of 
$2.75 exceeds any other price from 25c 
to 50c per hundred and upward.” 
Progress is determined by compari¬ 
sons. The net pooled price of $2.75 
for December compared with price for 
By J. D. MILLER 
WORLD’S DAIRY CONGRESS TO 
BE HELD AT SYRACUSE 
T he greatest gathering of dairy in¬ 
terests that the world has ever seen 
will be held at Syracuse, N. Y., during 
the -tsecond week in October. The 
decision just rendered by the officials 
of the World’s Dairy Congress to hold 
its show at Syracuse is fine recognition 
of the great dairy interest of New York 
and other Eastern States. The show 
will be attended by representatives 
from nearly every ' country in the 
world. Speakers of world-wide renown 
will discuss the farmers’, and particu¬ 
larly the dairymen’s, many problems. 
Exhibits covering every phase of milk 
production, manufacturing and dis¬ 
tribution will be given, and the Con¬ 
gress will be attended by hun¬ 
dreds of thousands of people. The fa¬ 
cilities at the State Eair Grounds at 
Syracuse, the hotels and the homes of 
the city will all be taxed to the limit 
to house and provide entertainment for 
the thousands who will attend the 
show. 
For many weeks the citizens and 
press of Syracuse, farm leaders, farm 
organizations, the New York State Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture and the State De¬ 
partment of Farms and Mai’kets have 
been busy trying to convince the offi¬ 
cials of the World Congress that New 
York State, because of it's large dairy 
interests, and the city of Syracuse, as 
the center of the State, was the logi¬ 
cal place to hold the show. American 
Agriculturist is the only farm publica¬ 
tion in the East that has worked with 
other leaders to bring the show to Sy¬ 
racuse. It is one of the fundamental 
policies of this publication to con¬ 
stantly emphasize the importance of 
eastern agriculture and holding the 
World’s Dairy Congress at Syracuse 
will do much to advertise and empha¬ 
size the dairy and other faxmi interests 
of this section. 
