The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
SOLUTION OF HIGH
LIVING PROBLEM
Continued from Tuesday, bv r. j.
Dyer.)
Tobacco Growers Cooperate.


rate by centralizing their sales, estab-
fishing district warehouses in charge
OF sales managers, and establishing a
minimum price for different grades of
tobacco.
At Gypsym, Ohio, fruit growers or
! ganized a cooperative association to
pack and market their product. The
members own a commodious and we'll
arranged packing house with side
track, and building in which extra
help needed during the packino season
can be accommodated. Each grower is
credited with the exact amount of
fruit of each grade he turns in to the
packing house, and then the fruit, uni
form as to pack and grade, goes out
under the label of the association, to
be sold at the place and manner die
tated by the board of directors Better
markets have been obtained in this
manner, and even the larger growers
not in the association have benefited
by the cooperative work
The cooperative plan has been
worked out with success in the sale of
grain by farmers and they have re-
ceived better prices than when they
have sold Independently Cooperative
grain elevators have become a feature
in some localities.
Reclamation of dry lands by irriga-
ton, or wet lands by drainage has
been accomplished with benefit to
many communities by cooperative
effort. These projects, it may be not
ed, range all the way from the CO.
operative arrangement among a few
farmers to unite in constructing a gen
eral drainage ditch or irrigation canal
with no public aid or supervision, up
through the various proportions of
public participation to the gigantic
irrigation project carried out on the
public domain. preparatory to Offering
homestead farms free except for the
cost per acre of the reclamation works.
Minnesota has taken a prominent
lead in another form of cooperation
than dairying, namely in "co-opera-
tive circuit breeding' The depart
ment of agriculture, the Minnesota ex-
pertinent station and score or more
of breeders joined in cooperative
breeding of short horn cattle for milk
ing. The national and state govern
ments joined in providing a public
fund to encourage, aid and direct the
joint enterprise of the cooperating
farmers engaged in breeding pedigreed
stock The plan. it is stated, is to use
public money in this way to induce a
group of breeders to develop a sub
breed of short horn cattle which will
have peculiar value to the farmers of
the country
A similar circuit association for
1 breeding Holstein cattle has been or
ganized in Dakota.
Michigan and other states are CO.
operating with the department of ag-
riculture and the farmers in testing
chiefly the efficiency of cows for dairy
purposes, thus aiding them to discard
all but those proved to be especially
profitable. This plan results in great
ly increasing the productiveness of the
common and grade herds of cows in
localities where such tests are con-
Quoted.
Cooperation Abroad.
Canada, New Zealand, Denmark and
other countries have made notable
progress in cooperation. Dairying, the
sale of meat and eggs, testing dairy
cows and other things form the basis
of cooperation in Denmark Here is
how the handling of eggs is describ-
ed
"Each egg is marked by the owner,
u.
The eggs are all assembled at store
and are candled by an employee of the
cooperative association. All bad eggs
are not only returned, but the farmer
supplying them is fined. The eggs are
then sold on a guarantee, mostly to
London merchants. and the returns
are sent by the cooperative manager
to the respective growers. In this
way eggs are sold on the market upon
their reputation, as what is sold is by
sample. The Danes have somewhat
similar plans for selling their poultry,
bacon and other meats
Canada has indirectly promoted the
sale of its cheese, butter and bacon in
Great Britain enabling the Canadian
farmers to increase enormously their
exports of those products. At the same
time the provincial government con-
tributed money to aid the farmers in
turning out better products. One re-
suit of this work was the breeding of
a better kind of Yorkshire hogs for
bacon.
New Zealand ships large quantity
of frozen meats to England. Here the
government co-operated with the
growers to dispose of the meats
through government sales agents, ad-
vancing almost the full value of the
shipments to the growers.
All of these enterprises are helpful
in reducing the cost of living either by
helping the producer to get more for
his products, by aiding him to improve
his products, or by enabling the con
sumer to buy at lower prices, or by
two or more of these achievements,
There are also in Ontario, Canada,
36 cooperative fruit associations. The
| operation of these was described by
Consul Felix S. 5. Johnson, of Kings
ton, in the Daily Consular and Trade
Reports for October 10, 1911
Florida has it's successful fruit ex-
changes, doing much for the industry,
and American growers of citrus fruits
in Cuba have organized the Cuban