Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-05

ed one man to have charge of the buy
ing of fertilizers, seed potatoes, lime and
seeds for the county. The different ex-
| change managers got together the or
ders from their exchanges and passed on
these to the head buyer of the county
A summary of the business done through
this county exchange pool showed that
Is cars averaging % tons per car of
feti!izer We're bought. Approximately
three-qusrters of this was in chemical
| form and one-quarter in mixed goods A
Careful record was kept of prices and
! it is known that at least $40 per ton
saving was made on the mixed goods
| bought and at least S26 per ton saving
made on the chemical fertilizers bought.
This is together approximately a saving
| of S94O on the mixed goods and $1,000
on the chemical fertilizers. A total saw
| ing Of $1,000 on the chemical fertilizers
| ing for the men buying through this
pool of around $500. In addition to this
another community bought q. IS con car
| of fertilizer at 2 saving of S25 per ton
which gave $3.50 more saving, while in
still another locality garmers received
a reduction Of several dollars per ton
on IT'S tons of soil IN this place The or
ganization of this cooperative pool on
fertilizers alone meant a saving Of well
| over IS, 900
| III OLtE lil4S Sdlilt pun VISllI NclS VI
lime We're handled while in three other
communities a car each of lime was
handled making a total of eleven cars
Of lime SHIPPED in during last sring. Two
thousand bushels of seed potatoes We're
also handled and around $1,000 worth
of seeds including grass sed, clover. oats
and the like were handled.
Early in October another county meet
ing was held to determine whether or not
a county pool should be organized to
take care of these different conmodi-
ties for next spring and it was unani-
mously voted that such a pool should be
organized leaving the same man in as
head buyer. At this county meeting
the crop specialist gave a discussion on
the purchase of lime, pointing out tht
value of using a much higher grade of
lime under the present prices than the
exchange bought this past year. AS a
result one cooperative exchange is to
purchase two 25 tons of lime saving
thereby several dollars per ton in the
actual value which they receive on their
: lime Without doubt the other cooper
. ative exchanges will buy the same kind
of lime and indications at the present
time point to a larger amount of lime
being bought comparatively this fall and
next spring Before this time it was
; extremely difficult for farmers to se-
cure lime as they had no organized way
, of buying this commodity.
BY far the larger part of the business
. Of these cooperative exchanges has beer
feed Before these exchanges were or
, j ganized a price reporting survey was
. started whereby local directors and com
5 mittee men of ths Farm Bureau reported
, to the Farm Bureau office once a week
: on prices cha rged in their locality for si1
> standard grains. These price quotation;
covered all the principal towns in the
, county covering a period of six month:
: from July l, 1920 to January I, 1921
n One particularly interesting phase wa:
r brought out in the case Of the New Lon
/ don Anarket During July, August ant
: September of 1920, the averageeper tor
: on bran, middlings, oats, cotton seed mea
/, and gluten was $154 per ton above tina
4 Of Norwich New London dealers wer