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on unofficial returns, with 83 doubt- ful "ballots to be settled. The labor forces turned out to vote in spite of a blizzard - which their opponents thought would defeat them. The labor votes also defeated the proposed city manager form of government, planned in such a way .as to kill labor’s polit- ical aspirations. Stephen Ely, president of the Mon- tana Federation of Labor, has issued an appeal to farmers to help the work- ers in driving the so-called “Ameri- can shop plan,” a new anti-organized labor scheme camouflaged under a pa- triotic name, from the state. Montana women have organized a state federation of Women’s Nonparti- san clubs. Mrs. Wearn Rowe of Fort Benton is permanent chairman until the next state meeting is held. W. R. Duncan is holding a series of meetings in Broadwater, Gallatin, Madison, Park, Yellowstone, Mussell- shell, Rosebud and Custer counties. NEBRASKA Members of the Nonpartisan league, organized labor and progressives throughout the state will attend a monster massmeeting May 4 to de- termine what course the League will follow in the coming general election campaign. : O. E. Wood of the League national speakers’ bureau has been holding a successful series of meetings in Ad- ams, Clay, Webster, Nuckolls and ad- joining counties. COLORADO Milk producers supplying Denver are forming a co-operative organiza- tion to handle milk directly from the producer to the consumer. The pro- ducer now gets 26 cents a- gallon, while the consumer pays 52 cents. League county conventions have been held in all farming districts of the state. All the conventions report- ed great enthusiasm. Egg Circles Promise Better Prices Marketing Methods of Denmark Taking Root Here — How League Program Would Help - BY A. B. GILBERT GG circles appear to be springing up in _ many parts of the country as a means of meeting some of the reasons for the low prices obtained for country eggs. = The “circle” is an association for co-operative marketing and large size does not appear to be essential to suc- cess, although the larger the volume of goods handled the better should be the returns. Lee county, Miss., established its first circle in 1915. At the beginning this circle had eight members and be- fore the year had passed it had 20. Some have as many as 60 members. In the egg circle plan better meth- cds than those commonly used are em- ployed in handling the eggs. Each egg bears the circle stamp and is guaran- teed. It is not just an egg and conse- quently it brings a higher price. Under the method by which most of our country eggs are sold, the farmer or farmer’s wife gathers them and puts them away until some one is go- ing to town or until there is enough to bother with. They then fall into the hands of the local merchant, who buys them just as they run, making the price sufficiently low to protect him- self against loss on the poor eggs. The retailer in turn waits until he has enough to pay to ship, and the egg dealer makes the price to him sufficiently low to cover losses on bad eggs. QUALITY MUST BE MAINTAINED Hence it is not difficult to see why farmers so frequently pay little atten- tion to the quality of their eggs. They get just as much for those earelessly gathered as for first class eggs. “One swallow can not make a summer,” nor can a farmer’s wife by herself get re- turns for careful handling of eggs un- less she has private customers. The dealer. blames the farmer for poor eggs, and the dealers in turn have been able to establish no standards among themselves which allow Ameri- can eggs to sell in competition with Canadian, Danish or Irish eggs abroad, not to mention the losses from lack of standards in home markets. Our eggs are about on the level with those from China in European markets. The Danes have been especially suc- cessful in getting away from these supposed advantages of marketing eggs on the individual profit system, and the best egg circle practice in this country is taken directly from their experience. Local associations gather the eggs from the individuals and ship them to a central egg-grading station. Each egg bears the number of the local association and the individual, so that there may be no question as to who is responsible for the bad ones. The fine imposed for a bad egg is heavy because the bad egg violates the pledged word of the co-operators. Hence when the egg buyer goes into the market he is willing to pay from 1 to 10 cents more a dozen for these co-operative eggs, because he knows that the case contains exactly what the label says it does; whereas in buying from athers he must take a chance that other dealers with an eye to immediate profit may be offering cases that contain from a few to sev- eral dozen eggs below grade. Up to the present our American egg circles are chiefly local. In general they have not reached the point of combining to maintain central grad- ing stations at strategic points, such as the Danes have, but there is no rea- son why, if the egg circle movement takes root rapidly, the co-operators can not in time take this larger step. The carrying out of the Nonparti- san league program regarding state- owned cold storage plants would be of great benefit to a co-operative work of this kind, because the state-owned plant, run at cost, would make the difficult task of raising capital for central receiving and storing stations unnecessary. Also egg circles could then hold their eggs over from the sea- son of plenty to the season of scarcity and thus keep some of the gains that now go to cold storage speculators. RESERVE BANK PROFITS For the past year the government system of federal reserve banks has earned 75 per cent on the capital in- vested. Out of these net profits 6 per cent is paid on the capital belonging to the member banks and the rest be- longs to the government. The Federal Reserve bank of Rich- mond, Va., for instance, has earned $3,902,796 on an actual capital of $4,392,000, or about 90 per cent. Of this sum the government pays $252,- 871 as a 6 per cent dividend to mem- ber banks and has a balance left of $8,649,925. The central state bank of North Da- kota, organized to do much the same work for that state as the federal banks do for the nation, is likewise making a good profit on its operations in spite of the fact that it is only in the early development period. ADVERTISEMENTS DE /4 THE EVERLASTING CREAM SEPARATOR There are thousands of vol- untary letters in the De Laval Company’s files, similar to this letter from Mr. Watkinson, of Iowa, bearing out the state- ments made in connection with the long service of De Laval Cream Separators. In fact, by averaging up the years of use, it has been found that the average life of a De Laval is more than 15 years; and that during that time they have required little attention or repairs, and have produced the highest possible quantity “My De Laval Separator has been in use about seventcen years and is doing just as good work today as when I bought it. I think it is good for ten years longer. With butter-fat at present prices no one can afford to use a cheap machine. “When looking around to see what kind of a separator to buy 1 found that all the creameries in our vicinity were using the De Laval. The thought struck me, what is good enough for the creameryman is good enough for me, and my experience proves | made no mistake." Ed. Watkinson and quality of cream with the least time and effort. That is why there .are more De La- vals in use than all other makes com- bined. Sooner or later you will buy a De Laval. @ The nearest De Laval agent will be glad to demonstrate a De Laval. 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