The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-07
Living Issues.
AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS IN
FRANCE.

have fixed a market day for Especial
product. One has established ii fair
for the exhibition of certain prod
ucts. Another syndicate has de-
voted all its energies to the sale of
green peas. 1t obtained low freight
rates, entered the largest market,
and enabled the producers in Vile
neuve-du-Lot to pay for their lands
800 per acre in one season. The
farmers brought all their products
TO one common center, where they
were transported in one train of Cars
to Paris. The expense of the freight
and sales amounted to 2 per cent. of
the gross receipts. In 1898, ole syn
dictate sold over $4,000 of products.
POsTAL-PARCEL SERVICE UsED
The syndicate organized In Brit
tany and Normandy makes import
ant sales of table butter and cheese,
using the postal parcel system for
reaching d large number of custom
ers. Parcels weighing 20 pounds or
less can be sent by mail Tor 80 cents
TO a large number of customers. In
the same way, the Individual wine
grower sends two bottles of his wine
by postal parcel as a sample, and, if
an order is received, Il public official
certifies that the barrels purchased
are the same as the sample.
APRICoTs.
The experience of the apricot
growers in the cOmmunes of Rogue
vaire and Lascuurs is wJrth speak
ing OF In detail. In former years,
the sale of their output hardly paid
expenses. Since the apricot men
have been placed under the direction
of a syndicate, their harvests are all
brought to d place agreed upon,
where d sale agent takes charge OF
them. The stones are taken from
the fruit by children and are sOldfOr
from 6 to 10 francs (S1.15 to 81 $50
per 100 Kilograms (22O.46 pounds.
During a good season, ) 1000 kllo-
grams (55, 600 pOunds) of stones have
been picked from the apricots by one
hundred and fifty women and chill
dren. The stones + sold to COnfeC-
TONERS and manufacturers of sirups.
The meat is placed in basins, where
it is cleansed and whitened and then
packed in 10 pound cans, hermetic-
ally sealed. In 1895, the village of
ROquevaire sold nearly 1000, 900
pounds of canned apricots, the
greater part of which fOand no mar
ket before the sales we're placed IN
der the direction of a syndicate.
Most of the aprico6s T sold in Bel
ium, H Hand, England, the United
States, and Brazil.
OLIVE OIL.
In the town of Istres, Department.
of the Bouches -du-Rhone, the olive
raisers complained of the bad mar
ket for their olive oil, cOntending
that middlemen so adulterated the
product that consumers had acquired
a distate for the pure article. Their
syndicate bought a CO operative mill,
in which pure olive oil is produced,
and the farmers are hoping for bet
ter prices for their product, notwith-
standing the competition of the oiive
growers of Tunls.
b SALE OF OTHER FARM PRODUCTS.
The syndicates have been most
useful in the sale of all farm prod
ucts. The one in Romorantin, in
the center of France, about 40 miles
from Paris, un tertoOk to sell ali the
vegetables raised by its members
The goods were carted to "a given
point, weighed, prepared for ship
ment, and the next morning they
were off rec for sale in the Halles,
the great Paris market. The sales
of green beans ana asparagus by this
syndicate amounted to $3.50 francs
($4,80O) in One year, and the action
of the syndicate raised profits 3 per
cent. in that time. Now, tie syndi
cate has its own agents in Paris at
the great market, who have no other
business than t. sell its products.
To furnisha an idea of the purchases
of the different syndicates, 1 quote
those made this year by the Union
of the Southeast, which has its head
quarters here in Lyons:
Tons
Fertilizer. 1863
For the use of wine growers. 1,4S5
Seeds IS
Fodder for cattle. $50
Ma tarynI for h1jlliur 1lA