The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1921, Page 6

hit THE BISMA: RCK TRI This indicates, in the opinionsof the department, that the creation of the | State-wide exchange has hi the effect | of bringipg up the prices ‘to the farmy| ser at competitive - points. The bene- | fit_of Such price finncrease; ‘of course, | goes to all fatmérg in the trade area. | suming 3. exportable, group: of 20,000,000, abushels (12,000,000 vwt.), the spread.@f.$..93. per,cwt. indicates 7 * wie 8 | that had’ all’ the potatoes of the state S z 2 " a = been marketed :around ‘November 1, ; the co-opéritive price level would have‘ given the. farmers. $1,0%6,(:#-more <~ unin’ thegew#eo-operative price., ! ; heey proxtmate.y one-fourth of the potatoes* are: being marketed’ co-'. | operatively through the exchange, one-. {fourth of this: amou-t, or $21 (9), may be regarded as the direct saving - + to the farmers through the use of co- operatiye. marketing: This does not. < take into ‘copaideration tlie. general boosting ujward of prices, due to the competition \between, co-operative ‘and | NOn-co-operative: buyers. .n this sav- ; ing, not only the tarmers using the exchange,: but all the farmers in the / state benefit.” Ub oey dealers have been forced:to take nalrower.and narrower margins. Is. gf theexchange edtimate that |, _ the exchange has.put more than @, mit | (lion doMars intg sthe-, pockets of ‘the _fermers ‘through ‘this general, upward +, boosting’ of price: : You know RERSEY CITY , /EWARK are two theories of :o-operative enterprise,” Mt. Hughes explained. “One’is that you must con- trol enough of crap) to coustitute-2 Vir? |-tual Monopoly’ and be able. prectically | to,set a price: Tle other theory, is th S'long ag:you‘have a guaranteed quantity, whethép big or little, you will |. get the best’ pride the market can q ee ——— \‘bring,, and benefit not only -the farm- , Te @ Man O' War and“His Home Ringing His. Front Bose aah nee fe o-operdting, but’ their neighbors HE a dae ob old gaye who kitted + phat i ‘cna ssniary jobsigediot care tains " ‘ 3 *, *, A Rn wanna! - . y own live gt in meat from your meat from these packing plants to pvei World’s Fastest Horse Lives in’ 2 : ibs opekatyys marketing: o petting ae ma live Mejeastiems-oor langer teens partotthe country parsing pans 0.9007, fs and, He was a pioneer and didguodservice ~~ << Dealers in towne and villages ate, supplied . But more than; that, it istend- directly and segularly’ from these refrigerator cars. | ing to stabilize-prices. It'is the same K lines zof' co-operative market: cooperative. marketing. ' pt he'couldn’t ‘keep up with his job. Crude methods had to give way to new ideas in sanita- tion and distribution. 4 Concentration of population drove the peddier Where Co-Operation Starts at\High Speed Minnesota Farmers Combine to. Market Potatoes » ‘~ Luxury in Kentucky (N. Ee Ae PEN And in cities the refrigerator car ig unloaded / Lexington. K: i 4 i H . whinny of Man een rani oa “: he this’ 8 ace saucer! and his wagon out and breast the modern pack- into branch. houses, chille# and sanitary, from by his priva alet i = . - — : air t ‘pro 5 \ ing industry and the néighi retailer in his which deliveries are made to your meat shop. sce i it if you don't appreciate how readily | the exchange, according ta.its officials. h,a certain. part of the year’s crop } st SEEN And all ‘the time the meat.is kept so.chilled that There's not an hour th of the greatest race horse of all time isn’t in attendance., Ldftus sleeps near the paddock. “I am Man o’ War's valet by sc?f- appointment,” says Loftus. “T attended him? during his rating N chi ig] .Jneldentally, Minnesota coxtmands | tions are springi in tke ‘prod: ¢ rs ee e change., ‘Now, the potato exchange is| a¢¢, z eae é nging up in the produc< \ career. I learned.to love him. r an infant as far as’age is concernd. | five waebencee i nee ee ing end of the game to sell mare ef: “When Mr. Riddle decided to retire Man o’ War I asked to be allowed to care for him. r) Busy Valet. “I'm kept busy, too. “There's exercise for\Man o’ War} farmers may'solve their own market- ing problems in lenge measure, a isit | to Minnesoti will prove instructive. | (here, in a ‘state that has heen a pio neer in co-operative enterprise, you will find tlie Minnesota Potato Ex: but potentially it’s a young giant, elo- | quent of the new-found power of the | farmers through organized effort. Per- haps no group of farmeys,,to antici | pate this story apmewnel. a8 been able } to get syén far-reachin§ resus in a and from dne-third to Mianesota -crop. will through the exchange. . That’s how fast co-operafive pro- jects get under way in Minnesota. gaehalt of the e- ‘marketed the various co-operative enterprises in the state run from $10U,UL,000 t'o 0,0.0,000 agyear in value. A, D. ilson, director, of the ‘extensioif di- vision of the Minnesota College of Agriculture, is althority for that state- | pledged,-will go:to the: consumer. and *How mu‘ | say, | crop? : sat é “Pyoducer ‘aud» consumer will agree on a price. Everything is working in | that directil Jo-operative organiza- ill/you give for the fectively, and:,in the consuming* end | ofthe cycte' to.buy more effectivel: More and-more we are coming to elim- | inate the middleman. As co-op | marketing develops, seasonal’ flu¢tua- | tions in prices’ will decrease. Tem- | porary inability, to zet cars: and, like tive |” you use, place. ‘ x : _ (Nand the modern packing b@iness means this: ~Thatinear the farms and ranchea, the centers Of live ‘stock production, are packing plants that assémble and manufacture the meat Products, \ Swift & Company, U.S.A. ’ deterioration is prevented. . ti Bwift & Compsny’s plants and branch are cpondcehe lnemtentna eieay and su; te ing each other, wherynecessary, so that no ion of thécountry may ever lack its daily. meat. each morning. / short time, ;And no rew-fangled laws ment.; He. placed the value of ‘live| , i = “How he loves it! He strains to weresfécessary: t i, rsh te) SY isteab | factors will pave less affect on mar- ee CRs \ ane REE be ee ane noeete the cedale' Ie pte} Leuched by a small group of farm-| $100k, markeree, tBrough co operative kets. Buying will be over longer pért- STEST HORSESHOER Aa \ PUTS POTATOES FIRST. _ on; ers in/the winter and spring of 192() var, eGaihe ania niisines oP ie | ods and in. bigger quantities. ‘ SINGS WHIL E . Three. Lakes, Wis., Feb. 23.—Fred A "Sbuck in is piace theres» rub-| he Mnesata olsto Bachangecae| State Samat Bia nants ges Reenie s | NGS EEE BE REE S | cseran soni of the Clr Hele, down and manicure. into, Sxistence On i =| a year. oe ainties” focal’ is a seed potato fafmer here. Fred “Anot y-time is ta the pledges of thirty local shipping as- ag Jel _| certainties of a local inarket. 4 f iy a 5 up laying with wae, net soojations of potato rowers—not a Wits, ‘e ee iicatal eooabaien Tj{ Potato Exchange, placing right at the won't play baseball untess he can get } on the gloves and box him. He blocks | Ver® pretentious number—and_ that | the" cotleg, ot dgricultare, Cho has | ume oné-fourth of ‘the state's crop in a suitable man to hoe his “spud™ and taps back with his rincel: head. | W485 about all except a conviction that made a 8) ve of the’ 96-0} perative re the hinds ‘ofssisingleiselling agency, crop. . % mR ul | the growers could save money. by| mace @ SUrvey OFT SO-op ative of and opening wp to the farmers daily aS Visiting Hours. shipping and marketing their own| S#nizacions of the farmers in the state the markets \of the entire country, al- ScoTT B ROOKIE. Vd “Then there’s the visiting hour 2 recently, put the number at 3,634 Ot’ peady has done wanders toward strb- a wanes \ this’ number, 1,747 are marketing ‘as: Toledo, Feb. 23.—Roger Bresnahan each day. In six months seventy additional lo- ais lizing prices, getting for teach expeits: something” good: ‘uf Harry |7 sociauons ‘purely; 190 are producers’ | farmer-the nest 35, buying _ organiza Ket: affords.”,/- and the rest are} “The Migfiesota,Pbtato Exchange is entirely under producer, ownerchip and “Mason, an Eau Claire, Wis. recruit. Mason has never played in organized ball. Everett Scott’ of the Red Sox says the kid is a wonder. e “Admirers always find Man o’ War] cal shipping associations of potato ; t the season’s mar- standing in his door to welcome them. | growers in all rections of the state had Pepe OM. associations; toes; Ii finangial, miscellaneous. He seems to enjoy their worship.” The padlock in which he lives isn’t -@ mansion from an exterior view. Inside Nt resembles a studio—tiled, drained, lighted,, spotiess. His stall, roomy and comfy, isn’t padded. eo His home is made of oak planks. He has a three-acte\front yard all to himself. f He eats his food from specially made. tubs. His menu,prescribed by his dietician consists of oats, bran, barley mash, finely chopped hay, car- rots and. occasionally/ a little sugar. Star Boarder, Man o’ War weighed 1,150 pounds on his arrival at Hinata Farm to be- come the star boarder of Miss Eliza-| gan, and spent a week studying the made 63 per cdnt pt the butter in Min: ing the purchase. |All’ tHe, potatoes ythii beth Daingerfield. Now he weighs tem of the Michigan- Potato Kx-| nesota in 1918. st ' are pooled by, the growers. In other Salen ta than anything ise. 1,175 chahge. ‘ In other words, cooperate market’ words, if one retailer biys a car at a . Alfred Robertson—King Horseshoer | ne, Biome ae Mis3 Daingerfield says: , “He's a vigorous, healthy horse.| state heaaquarteis of the exeaaage s IN. E...A. ‘Staff Special). © - Seems to havg.a five, disposition, We] tuere August 1, Aud there were fow growers caught the fever oi eae | no intore’thn the others. Each gets! 7ioh' city, IIL, Rake 23—Alfred \ aa } shall be friends. | | we'll get| jumps to spate. One week*'later, potatoes wes ditterent from selling) (He pest the market offers on that par-| por otson eaceabes a: horse quicker ! wheat or live stock. There wa8 00! ifcular day. If there are profits above r ‘ along, splendidly {o; 5 Hundreds of people flock to Miss Daingerficld’s farm partly to see the great horse, partly to compliment her in obtaining his’ guardianship. ability to build winning g central exchange. Five ‘thousand po- tato grower’ ‘had pledged their crops to the *.ew, venture in farmer market- ing. Meeting in Wadena. Minnesota; July 12 to 21, 1920, the grower! perfected a permanent organizatioh, and when thelr crop* wasvalmost ready. for the market, weut about the task of setting up the machinery to market jit. Jusv then, they were not-very many jumpy ahead of the gethe. First thing. they ad to. have-a manages... (Looking! around for‘a man who knew the prob- lems of the farmers, they employed W.-Aamodt,/county agent of Bel- trami couity. /That was on July 21. Aamodt took the first train for Michi- | been sexcgan and affiliated with the Returning to ‘Minneapolis, heopened the Jirst of the Minnesota potato crop, pping and sold by tne producers, was going’ tlirctigh tie exc! ze, And apr csincer marketed potatoes hhve been oing to market*in rapidly increasing volume ever in (Minnesota. more than $1, sh 11919, Mr. Blaék reported, cd-oper. atiye live stock shippin handled & shipped to the S from Minnesota farms. W. A, McKer- row, secretary of thé, Minnesota -G@n- tral Co operative Farmers’ Live, Stock, Shippi-.g such. ldcal associations in the state, and that tffey are handling fully 80 per gent of the live stock snipped to, Soutn St. Paul from Minnesota farms, i ; There’ are 427 elevators, shipping 39, per cent of the grain shipped jn the crop year of 1918-19/ Ri BRE ‘vhere are (63 creameries, which ing'is in the air/in Minuegota, was no’great wonder that the potato convenient oxchange or market offer. ing at dne point the advantages of world prices, So the potato rowers, early in their organization efforts, de- ded to overcome this handicap as ‘ar us possible and incidentally-go Oae ssociation, says there are}, big, natidnal disti controk . Real.“dirt’“armers, men who grow potatoes, are ita officers and di- Yectors, ‘Hach grpwet pledges his cro | to the exchange. ,At.present: product! are distributed through a private com: | pany under contract. . Thi @ grow: ing movement, however, / to develop; ‘ibutive /organiza- ition, serving alf the:‘various co-opera- | tive fruit and farth, industries.* ( | [Each -evening Aamodt. wires’ mar- | Kets over thé country’ the quantifies of : potatoes to be shipped ‘the next morn- \ing and’ gaks for bids, To. the ‘bist | bidders hd dirécts the shipments, send- | ing the cars ‘dipect fromy the ‘local as- | sociation to the’ retailer or jobber! mak- | high ‘figure, ayd other cars must ve | sold gt a lower figure, one grower. gets the nominal handling charge,‘ the ‘far- mers get the dividends: “Tha first week was a wild on Mr. Aamoit said-'!“We had to build up our whole organization and get ready‘for the potato shipment: in six’ than any man in: the world. -He sings while he “shoes,” ] It cook him jast 18 minutes to shoe a big’ coach hors® here: at his. shop. Patritk Mcinigsh: held. a watch on him:: “ 7 you may rest assured that he knows that it will fill the need better cee TD KATTLE KING IT FILLS THE NEED When your doctor decides that you need 97 _ | E8cott’s Eniulsion | : ‘ - 9 aps . has, long been establi z i . o> ops . . eee Oth harvarte Wort of potatoes had? been! step farther than the, other cooper Gays, It sure, kept.us fumping. Now,| This betters the Canadian record marketed through the exchange.\and | tive RA Rh ata a Tee TLOle we are able to catch our breath for the] by several putee It. is believed : and his keeper, ‘| officials of the riew organization, sur-}a ventral selling ege Ee © first time.” i ck to be a-worlt#s:tetcrd: : : Man e’ War tae a: flock~of oth | veying the amounts pledged by the lo-| Stat Their marke.ias bingy nut the working ob te xchange did]: Combined with: the Zion City ath- all rubber uppers : . . ‘al associations, estimated’ that The) would have to reachall t1e revéal the speed’ with which ithis| lete's sré'wag ‘ood ‘workman- : , tendan They include'a veterinary, ¢ tist and a vegetarian. An equine die to growers have: Fshed) ia an F first seascn. J ato growers haves a Ree much like a..veteran.* » Di - ngands a ie wey “brent "Approximately Gne fourth’ of “the | these few menths. hs f ea nonnth, Michigan and Wisco: The job Paley rre off caulks, ches and dinn is being . Marketed But quit produce annually more: than’ 90,000,- turning of heels, dressing the feet Man o’ War is h every bit of the attention he receives. In two years he set three world’s track ‘records, and. earned. for _his owner, Samuel. D.- Riddle. § b Riddle has: turned. down off half a million \for \his ‘horse. wants him ‘to sire otler Man o’ W Both money and* more honors are f the exchange would | Y's busine’ —not go bad for the 1y reach $4,609,C0 Os crop through the exchange. By. January. | more than 2; cars of potatoes had been sold through it, and thousands of dollars had been saved to the ‘produc- ers. ‘Prices-paid farmers were ranging from 10 to 30 cents 4 hundred pounds | higher than private shippers were pay- ing, while there was no. way of estt. | mating. the extent to which. competi: tion of the farmers’. organizations had they de sad. pi ged. that is the t ig the with, whi veloped, . on prices piiid b; other buyers of-po- tatoes. ~ \ “Owing to inadequate, facilities, the association at Blackduck had to. step 4 taking -potatoes,” Mr. Aamodt said Prices dropped 20\ceuts immediately. t East Grand Forks, it was the same jay. The warehousé thére ‘became piled so full that’ the assoctation had indesota po - 00 a-year. enterprise came into The infant was acting very ate nf petotoes, almosti ‘a {, production. in. the Ss! fe p ‘suiccessful_er- akg ia n ence: i A the néw cuterpfise in orming ¢. very,fousiderable por: -sota, farmers in th states soon will tion of the job of marketing their‘own patatoes:—Dearborn, dependent. (> (here ‘are three: aaa ship. “97 be a No. 3 shoe. The horse wore and shoes ‘and nailing themon. > Robertsgn sings a song. about Old Tubal Cain, supposed tobe the first blacksmith, when he. is nailing’ on shees., ~~ ‘Ap runs:like thi es “3 Old Tubal Gain was a man of Jnight In: the days when the: earth’ was) th fi ‘young; | S ‘i e 1r. forced up prices. of the EN puyers : ie bayitie ti aly aioe pea PE Arar ae ae cht zi i i : as ean tunes in most of the ‘potato producing cen-| to quit buying for a day. -Frie a vidower in the U: y ,the: fierce ht. of his anvi 4 ¥ an : There were 3,300 business failures,| ters. Next yells there’ Will be fully | by other buyers dropped 25.cents." ~ | mesa ake an ) OBribht ees i ape ol ae and thousands of wearers know that. “North Branch wes: one, of the poor- His, werful: blows ‘they’ rung./ { me the HOOD. PRESSURE PROCESS still makes ; with a loss of $30,000,000 last year. 140 ‘local. associations of growers ‘in Zz if a est paid points in- the whole: potato produciag. area; Aftér:jthe .co-opera- tive association went-into tie business, New Zealand, 18: years.ago. Robertson‘ cajie to don City ‘from Wine put our best into the Kattle King. Our bestinde- sign, in material i it outwear all imitations. _ st Kattle King- » UG ce You ‘Save 2 M n 7 7 the other dealers not’ orilly ‘came ‘up ze Ce) e on their prices, but actually paid 10/ - and alway in up-to-date construction. iS oy, / “| eents more than the Chicago market to Teisan ‘deal overshoe and fully tative of the name { says the Good Judge ek Mer Bet jporators. ee, fh one 6 —a name on footwear which you can make your ' 4 . e 5 guarantee. The sturdy Kattle King soles. i p And get more genu' ing satisfaction, when you use this class of tobacco. ine chew- getting 20.to 25 ceitts more for pota- toes than farmers, at surrou:d ng towns where there were no co-operative ai sociations. x “Where there weré no co-operative | in 6 to 14 Days An druggiots ore. siathdrized to ney if PAZO Left Earful. ing guide of tire-tread stock give fhonths of hard The hese brow fleece Tinie k s aye the name “HOOD. Ask srt gangs became they fic” well, clean easily and cost least for the season’s wear. we ‘ associations, the farmers could hardly . nl si - : ‘ “This is because the full, rich, sell their potatoes,at all niavy times.” | | Jack Dempgey’s going-overseas / ofsk any dealer or ~write j ‘ z al bac Hugh J. Hughes, djféctor of markets To: England and to. France— HOOD RUBBER PRODUCTS COMPANY, INC, _ real tobacco taste lasts so | T fore oF eh: pairs : ’ of the state department of agriculture. | wo lands he hasnt seen before \ WATERTOWN, y fe - long, you don’t need a fresh late in'the year sent out an jnouiry | Although he had a.chance. MASSA ones : : 3 to-all county agents in the state as ‘| to prices paid at co-operative and non: - | ec-operative points. “The co-operative. market prices quoted indicated an average price cov-' ering the last tea days in October of $1.0125,” Mr. Hughes said, summing up Right Earfal. - The keeper of thé Tigers’ field - Was glad‘ to ‘see Hugh go‘ For Jennings:absence’ will. allow The struggling grass to- grow. gigs ‘ League «of golf succeeds where} chew nearly as often. And q small chew gives more ‘real satisfaction than a big chew ' of ‘ ordinary kind éver did. could be,’” White Rock wearers tell us. That will be your experience, too, Any tan wh his findings. © “Compared e 4 ees the Real | the non-cowonerative prices show al} League of Nations doesn’t make first because not a single pair leaves the! obatco Chew will tell you \ average of $.9185, The-spreac amounts: 4 hole. ‘ “ ety 41000- plant without fll inspection. © that. + 3A \ \to $093 x \ SB Sturdy, ay tire-tregd. P 5 “The widest. spread between co-oper-+ Landis warns indicted Sox to lath> soles joined to heavy , 3 i E ut up in two styles ative and non-co-operative. prices ap-' {er wp for a closé shave. i -black uppers by the é te - 0+ 3 Hoppe’s carefulness is about;~ris only advantage compared with ‘Hore- mane pears at points where there is co com- WB CUT is is e L | petition. In seme instances the vari- ; : long fine-cut tobacco . | ance was as much ‘as 25-or 30 cents, | . RIGHT CUT is a shortecut,tobacc | and in-one case 40 cents, Wheré com-/ petition: is active betwen the private ee shippets and the co-operative organiza-| | pie Tad Jones and hf Elis sre out