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nie fen / 
f up our cooperatives know very little about their 
year they'll get a lot of the story. This begins the 100th 
tivity conducted on Rochdale principles. There were 28 weavers 
, England, who organized in 1844. The one-member-—one-vote, 
apital, return of savings to patrons in proportion to their pat-— 
ronage, open and vo tary membership -—- these are the simple, effective policies 
underlying the Rochdale pattern. Your Eastern States is essentially "Rochdale." 
That bill before Congress to require cooperatives (and labor unions) to file 
income tax reports has been receiving the attention of the National Council of 
Farmer Cooperatives. Council stand is that filing reports is OK provided they be 
filed on forms suitably adapted to the non-profit aspects of cooperative business, 
and also that these reports go to that division of the revenue office which deter-— 
mines tax exempt status of cooperatives. 
Best advice this month: Put your order in for Eastern States vegetable seeds 
NOW. Delay may run into "exhausted" items and mess up your plans and preferences. 
Even with Christmas behind us, don't forget to get a copy of that delightful 
Many of the 
background. Well, 
year of cooperativ®é 
in Toad Lane, Roch 
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new Eastern States recipe book —- FOOD, AS WE LIKE IT. One of the most satisfactory 
50-cent deals you ever made! 
Seed potatoes —- will there never be enough? Trouble is it takes two years' 
planning behind the stock the farmer plants. That's why Eastern States is coura- 
geously trying to line up 1945 needs right now. Speak up —- tell your Eastern 
States local representative what you expect to want. See the story in this issue, 
page 24. 
Looks like we're in for another year of living with a feed shortage. First 
month sees feed suppliers scrambling for barley and oats lately made harder to buy 
since the new ceilings were put on them. Corn-hog situation very slightly improved 
by higher corn ceilings, but still too cock-eyed to assure corn's moving into milk 
and egg country. New oil meal order may help in equitable distribution of some of 
the protein items now painfully short in Eastern States operations. 
So --— more eastern feed resources depend on grass and gumption than ever. 
Plan and plant with that in mind. 
Subsidy fuss may be settled one way or t'other ere this is printed. More 
subsidy means another round of marvelous hocus pocus for everybody. Less subsidy 
isn't all velvet either —— for then we take up with grim pee a lot of the prob-— 
lems we've been sweeping under the national carpet. 
HAPPY NEW YEAR just the same! 
EASTERN STATES FARMERS’ EXCHANGE 
