Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
MARKET BUREAU is
ADVOCATED BY kOlNER

w. kO1ner, neeQS mar
<et bureau connected with the
State Department of Agriculture
and he will ask the members of
the General Assembly, which
met January II, to make suf-
ficient appropriation for the es-
adjustment Of this adjunct to
the department.
In discussing this subject Com
Koiner said:
There are thirteen States
having market bureau in their
Department of Agriculture. and
their work has proved very help
full to the farmer. The reports
of the National Department OF
Agriculture show that the
farmer gets less than half of the
price of his products which the
consumer pays. The reason for
this is the farmer permits it. He
is content to receive the price the
other fellow offers, and he is
content to pay the price, whe n
he buys, that the other fellow
asks. The farmer is isolated
and has not tile opportunity to
get the desired market iuforma.
ton when he needs it. Neither
has he the information regard
ing locations and conditions of
markets requiring his kind of
products. The farmer needs
practical help very badly in these
matters. He needs also CO.
operation. Some intelligent
system should be adopted that
will help the farmer to get his
share of the value of his crops
and to avoid gluts in the mark.
cts as much as possible. Over.
! abundance of products on certain
days to be followed by a deartll
of supply Is condition that
must harm all parties interested.
TO ASK APPROPRIATION.
I'VE shall ask our General
Assembly to make an appropri.
alton to the Department of Agri.
culture 20 enable us to establish
: a MAJ ket bureau to assist our
farmers as much as possible by
giving all the information OBJ.
tainable as to market locations
and conditions. One instance
will illustrate the helpfulness OF
this kind of work. In this in.
stance a wholesale house was
getting beans from a distant
State, paying a high freight
rate, while in the same State
where this wholesale house was
located there was a section Where
the ia rmers were growing large
guam titles of beans and were not
able 10 find a market. Tile
market bureau found this out.
putting the sellers and buyers in
touch with each other, and the
result was the wholesale house
gave the farmers one-ha]f of the
price Of the freight haul over
the price paid by them to an.
other State. The farmers re-
ceived good price, and the deal
erS also were benefited"
AIM TO LOCATE MARKETS.
The average farmer has no
opportunity to find the best
markets or to be familiar with
the grading and packing neces-
sary to place his products in the
most advantageous condition on
those markets. A market bureau
in this State could be made a
valuahl help to our farmers in
the preparation and marketing
of their crops. In fact, such
practical help would greatly en-
courage many farmers to diver
sify their crops more than they
are now doing by enabling them
to profitably market their pro-
ducts. Egg routes have been
established in these States where
there is a market bureau, and
strictly fresh eggs are shipped
weekly to the best markets. Tie
poultry crop in this State is
about seven millions of dollars;
it should be double this value.
There are other States with no
more advantages than this State
that ship from twelve to seven
teen million dollars worth of
per year. One county,
in this State, sold
IN 1915. two million dollars
worth of poultry. Not only
would the farmer be helped by a
market bureau, but the consumer
would also share in the benefits"
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