Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-08-14
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This Is the Great Problem Of the
Day For the Farmer.

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Day For the Farmer.
Some Instances Whore Cooperation 10
Highly abie-statistics Of Great
Co operative Enterprises That Are
Worthy Careful Perusai--Good BUSH
/ ness Management tho Secret. #4s##'5.
| In these days of much talked Of pro-
posed cooperative enterprises 1t Is
well to consider some Of the enter
prises that are already proving their
right to existence There are many
of them. A few only will be consider
ed here. The figures given for these
various enterprises are the latest OBJ
tainable and deal mostly with trans
actions for 1912 @s..a ~ s33.. 49, j. s>@s
| The Farmers Cooperative society of
! Rockwell, Ia, Is in the twenty fifth
year of its existence or it 1t is said
that success has characterized its op-
erations from the beginning. This So
ciety blazed the way for the farmers
Of Iowa toward the goal of freedom
to handle their grain and other prod
uce, to buy their machinery and other
articles as they chose and where and
of whom, regardless Of the wealth
which has been combined against
them. Note some of their larger trans
actions last year. Sales-Oats, $780,.
500 bushels; corn. 142,200 bushels;
bran and middlings. 333, 900 pounds:
oilmeal. 81 500 pounds; barbed wire and
nails, $3.50 pounds: Irvine. $4,000
pounds: timothy seed. $4,000 pounds:
salt. 264.90O pounds; -four, 3,941 sacks;
coal. 1876 tons: lumber. 75OSOO feet:
shingles. $4,000; clothing in amount.
$2S,686. or a total business in sales of
all goods and articles of $605,152.44.
And this total amount of business was
done at an expense Of only $s,05s for
the year, The total net assets Jan. 1.
1918. were $27. 476.13. OF the society a
local paper says, 1T is doing finely
and rings up a. good dividend every
year for it's stockholders -. =.
NJ Coming back east to New Jersey, we
find the Monmouth IN. J.) County
Farmers Exchange. organized FIVE
years ago with paid up capital of
$4,000. Its capital stock today amounts
to $4,000, upon which 5 per cent
dividend was declared at the: end of
the year Capital and surplus now
amount to SOL, 1926 Potatoes are
the prineipal crop handled by the ex-
change. and last year it was short, but
j there were 1891 carloads handled.
worth .$941, 765 at that. In 1911 It
amounted to $1.4OO.OOO In~ the FIVE
years the exchange has done a total
business of 1920. 748. There are 1927
members of the exchange. They are
satisfied with results. In Burlington
county. N. j.. Is located the Burling-
ton County Farmers Exchange. or
|ganized three years ago, which sold
during the season! Of 1912 over 1000
cars Of potatoes and other produce to
the amount of S515, 900 and bought sup
plies to the amount Of 100000.
On Long Island is located another
prosperous, cooperative association It
is the Long Island Potato Exchange.
months from August to Dec. 81. 1912,
Of $151.S6471. on which it made a
gross profit of S6S15.66. or net earn
ings of more than $4,000 over the cor
responding period of the previous year.
The gross amount of potatoes, sold was
sos. 1858; grain, $27 ,25124; miscel-
laneous. $15,S63.S9. making the total
Ind u OF in 20
, short period of five months. Taking
the figures for the. previous full year.
we have the following record. of sales:
Potatoes S9O,447 40 fertilizer $SS.-
!164SO, feed S26,155o4, seed potatoes
So So. ,7724 SO. -four $5.75641. chemicals
! SGO7O37.s " BARRELS and sacks S3,775.
/ seed S2.214.o5. oil and gasoline 81 400
miscellaneous s2.O1o52 The, grain
business increased last year over S11,-
{ 600 On the single item Of paris
green there was a large saving. 1t
cost the potato growers from 25 to So
{ cents a pound before the exchange was
( ablished, but since then they have
never paid over II cents. On fertilizer
( the saving was very large About
y GO.UOO lO1lS ttlc SCdIlt IL lily C-A
! changes territory, and on this amount
{ there has. been a saving of at least So
on a tonaor S6o,o0Oa year, and in the
three years up to the completion Of
the above report a total Of $1S00Ot
4 Ehas been left in the pockets Of it's GOO
SImembers. ]. $e$<!r2 44$alfE fS55If5 EFg3 s& IN /
& / II" Down in Maine we find anothe
! Turner {: Center DairyingS Il association
{ 1T sold butter during the past year t,
i 1.-THE value of $223,S72.9 6; cream am
: Emilk. ss 81, 1Sl.361.33:: eggs. S .o2
4 general trade III it's stores. s 73,1 Oh D. g
Il Hand miscellaneous making a total in
\ come Of ST ,664 .O39.77, which, with /
: balance Jan. ! !, 1912. gives the gran,
y tota sof $1,730. S22. Is. The III expense
\ were such as to- leave Al balance q
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