rience is quite inadequate. This limi- 
tation will be swept aside by 100 
percent participation of all represent- 
atives in submitting their seed po- 
tato applications by February 1, 1944, 
for 1945 distribution and each year 
thereafter for the subsequent season. 
(3) Very few individual members 
were even consulted concerning their 
future plans for potato acreage and 
seed requirements. In the future rep- 
resentatives will welcome such guid- 
ance from members. At their discre- 
tion, some representatives will use 
return postal card forms to members 
ascertaining their probable seed re- 
quirements in 1945. The postal reads 
as follows: 
mating their 1945 requirements by 
February 1, 1944. The Eastern States 
Farmers’ Exchange will then plant 
an acreage of each variety, within 
the limits of available tuber unit 
stock seed to fulfill these require- 
ments. The seed produced will be 
allotted to representatives within the 
available supply according to their 
applications and reserved until No- 
vember 30, subject to members’ or- 
ders. In this manner there should be 
seed reserved for every member who 
participates and who cooperates now 
with his representative. 
This program is an outstanding 
example of a farmers’ cooperative 
purchasing service in which its own 

Dear E. S. Member: 
It is necessary to produce during 1944 Eastern States seed potatoes for planting in 1945. 
January 1944 
In order that our cooperative organization may know how many acres of each variety to 
grow this year, I have been asked as the Eastern States local representative to report prior 
to February 1, 1944, the estimated requirements of members in this area for seed to plant the 
acreage of potatoes they may grow in 1945. An allotment of seed will then be reserved sub- 
ject to members’ orders prior to November 30, 1944. 
I will appreciate your guidance in arriving at the estimated requirements of Eastern States 
seed potatoes for this area in 1945 by informing me prior to February 1, 1944, of your own 
probable 1945 seed potato needs by varieties in comparison with your plans for this year’s 
(1944) acreage. 
E. S. Local Representatzve 

Dear E. S. Local Representative: 

January 1944 
I estimate my 1945 Eastern States seed potato requirements in comparison with my 1944 
acreage as follows: 

Variety 
Acres Acres 
1944 1945 Bags 
Per Acre 
Bags Needed 
In 1945 

Cobbler 

Chippewa 

Mountain 

Katahdin 

Russet 


Sebago 





Total 
This 1s not an order. 

Sig led emer me rane ree era 
EB. S. Member 


Whether a member or patron re- 
ceives such a postal or not, this will 
constitute the official appeal to pre- 
vious Eastern States seed potato users 
to aid their representatives in esti- 
producing members function to com- 
plete the cycle of ‘Cooperative Pro- 
duction for Use,’’ such as does not 
exist, to our knowledge, anywhere 
else in America. 

Nags. 
S)nenee Gates 
‘Hop into the truck,’’ said old man 
Gates. “We'll go to the store of East- 
ern States. They have greater bargains 
to save our dough than any other 
place I know. They seem to be always 
in the lead in furnishing things that 
the farmers need, and all their stock 
is fresh and new and their prices are 
most attractive, too.”’ 
The engine started with a din. The 
family all tumbled in. As down the 
hill they quickly sped, who should 
they see but neighbor Fred. They 
halted just to say ‘‘Hello,’’ and Fred 
jumped in and said, “‘I know it’s 
down to Eastern States for you and 
that is where I’m going, too.”’ 
Again they started down the hill 
and bumped right into neighbor Bull. 
He hopped aboard and said, “‘OK. 
I’m going to Eastern States today.”’ 
And so it went for mile on mile. Each 
neighbor stopped them with a smile 
and climbed upon old Gates’s truck 
and each remarked, ‘‘What perfect 
luck.’’ Across the town sped old man 
Gates and stopped in front of Eastern 
States. All clambered out with light- 
ning speed and purchased what they 
knew they’d need. The pile grew 
bigger, hour by hour, necessities 
including flour and bran and oats and 
rye and wheat that stock upon the 
farms could eat, and then when all 
the bills were paid, to fill the truck 
each lent his aid. They had to use, to 
load them there a slide rule, compass, 
plumb and square. When everything 
was placed aboard they all climbed 
in, the engine roared, and none re- 
membered such a load had ever passed 
up Gates’s road. Now, that’s the way 
the farmers do; they help themselves 
and others, too, and thousands more 
like Mr. Gates appreciate the East- 
ern States. — Nathan Marshall South- 
wick, Leicester, Massachusetts. 

Des) 
