The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-11-25
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Members of the South Dakota Du-
roc association were able to buy tank
age, oil meal and other hog feed at
savings of from ten to thirty dollars
ton by buying comparatively.
Seventy per cent of the prunes
grown in California are now sold
through the prune growers organiza-
ton in that state.
The Wisconsin Cheese Producers
Federation last year marketed nearly
100000 pounds of cheese for its
T120 cooperative factories. Too bad
they can't cooperate!
Cooperative bull associations are
now to be found in more than thirty
states. These associations or rings, as
they are frequently called, result in
breed improvement because they af-
ford an opportunity for joint owner
ship, use and exchengc of high-class
bulls. Territory covered by an associa-
tion is divided into three or more
breeding blocks, and bull is station
ed in each for the service of the fifty
or sixty cows in the block. Every two
years bulls are interchanged. At the
initial cost, therefore, bull is pro-
vided for six or more years for every
sixty cows. With the cost of bull SER
vice reduced the most outstanding
bulls can be obtained and the farmer
with limited means is enabled to i'm
prove his herd. And they say farmers
don't cooperate!
Cooperative cow-testing associa-
tions grew from single association
in Michigan in 1906 to ASP associa-
tons in 1921. These associations in
some forty states embraced 11,209
herds, numbering 1892 cows, an
average of APO cows to an association.
Nearly twelve thousand dairy farmers
cooperating to improve their herds!
The Chautauqua and Erie Grape
Growers association in New York
and Pennsylvania handled $4,000,000
worth of grapes during the 1920 sea-
son.
Many of the farm bureus now have
bule-sky committees to protect their
from INSCRIPTIONS sales
men of worthless stocks and bonds. A
year ago such a committee compelled
the return of $4,000 collected from
the farmers of Cerro Gordo county,
Iowa.
More than $4,000 dairy farmers are
members of the New England Milk
Producers association. They have
found it pays to cooperate to get a
fair price for their milk.
During the first six months of the
present year the G. l.. F. Exchange
in New York state did business of
close to $2,500,000, of which sales of
grain and feed formed the largest
part. The full title of this coopera-
tive organization is the Grange
League-Federation Exchange, it rep
tripartite cooperation be-
tween the Grange, the Dairymen's
League, Inc, and the
New York State Federation of Farm
Bureaus, to assist their members in
getting feed, binder Irvine, seed, fer
spray materials and other ne
tessities.
Through the agency of the Ameri-
IAN Farm Bureau Federation wool
pools We're developed in ten states
last year which. handled 40,000,000
pounds Of wool for their flock-owner
Potato growers all over the coun-
ny have watched with interest the
progress of the Michigan Potato
Growers Exchange during the past
hree years. In 1920 it sold $3.50 car
Dads of spuds.
OF the 1857 elevators and grain
in South Dakota 445 are
armer owned with a capacity of 49,
10000 bushels.
Sixty-five per cent of the citrus
ruit grown in Florida is marketed
One of the Oldest forms of cooper
ltion in this country is the mutual in
urance company. 1t is estimated that
here are some 2100 farmers mutual
Most of them insure
against loss by fire, but there are also
that write protection
against hail, cyclones and tor
ladoes. In Minnesota where they
ire called township mutuals, there
are more than $50 of these farmers