The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1911-02-17
WORK OF FARMERS EXCHANGE
Organization In Monmouth County,
New Jersey, Made % Per Cent
Profit Last Year.

That cooperation of husbandmen
is of inestimable benefit is well illus
rtrated in the annual report of the
Monmouth county On j. farmers
exchange. Just made public by the
manager. w II. Ingling of Freehold
The conditions will interest farmers
and truck growers The report coy
.ers the year ending November 80. 1t
shows that the members made a net
profit of % per cent. on the capital
stock. the years business totaling
nearly million dollars, writes John
r.. Quinn in the Orange Judd Farmer
This great volume of business was
due in large part to the bumper crop
of potatoes in Monmouth county, ad-
mlttedly the largest yield this section
has ever had.
The managers report shows that
total of 2,575 cars of farm products
were shipped by the exchange dur
ing the year OF this number over
1000 cars were potatoes. an increase
>cnf 1,2S3 cars over 1909. or an increase
of 1853 cars over the combined ship
ments of 1908 and 1909. This large
shipment of potatoes represents AL
H9S barrels
Other produce sold through the
exchange during the year includes
1929 barrels and 1887 baskets of ap-
pies. $3.50 barrels and SEQ baskets of
pears. 1896 barrels and 50 baskets of
cucumber pickles. 500 crates OF to-
matoes, Sol crates of berries, 100
barrels and 210 baskets of melons.
! GIT packages of miscellaneous prod
ucts. S.57S crates or pos. SSS punches
of asparagus. $50 crates of celery.
21l crates of cranberries. and 1000
bales OF hay and straw These goods
gere placed in 1916 cities in % states
ara in one foreign country In add
don the exchange sold direct to its
members 20. 900 barrels of seed pota-
toes and handled $4,000 bags of fer,
1iizer.
During a part OF August and Sep
tember there were several weeks
when shipments from the exchange
averaged so to Go carloads of pota.
foes alone a day On August 12 IS
carloads were shipped, representing
$50 600 as the days business The
exchange manager could have used
100 cars with ease that day could he
have procured them from the rail
road authorities. who were not pre-
pared to meet the rush.
" is freely admitted by members
that without the exchange they could
not have received for this immense
crop the average price, $l35. paid
them Membership in the exchange
has increased during the year from
$50 to 500, aud the capital stock has
gone mp from $31 PA to $40.370 at
the time Manager lngling made his
report the other day Since then |
understand there has been a further
increase in the capital to nearly S55..
600 II Is the purpose of the direc-
tors to increase the stock to see 600
or $4,000. after which not more than
ore share VIII be sold at time and
then only to new members An in
noyation is to be made by the ex.
change next year when all potatoes
will be purchased by weight Mem.
bers have been warned against dig.
ging potatoes faster than they can
gather up. to avoid having them sun
pricked and they were advised fur
Their that 1t would be to their advan
tage to grade their tubers.
So far as this exchange is con
-csrned | can say It Is a success with
capital S. But for 1t many farmers
and growers would be houndering
around alone. pursuing a goas-you
please policy and selling their prod
uce for whatever they could get
without possessing any knowledge OF
the bigger and vastly better market
offered through the exchange