The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-12-10

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church, in Washington, and finds
that the preparation of the Christ
mas musical programme takes up
a good deal of his spare time.
At that, however, he manages TO
get in a round of golf occasionally
! at the kirkside links, Chevy Chase,
and also to indulge now and then
! his fondness for artistic nhoto-
| graphy. Lately he took a strik-
ing picture of the Capitol dome at
night under it's food of exterior
electric illumination, fxinp his
camera upon the balcony of Sena-
tor Pages Office in the Senate Of
flee Building Just across the corner
of the Capitol plaza.
Apropos of discussion going
on in the Vermont press, certain
Census figures lately made public
cast some light of statistical
character upon the subject of CO.
operative marketing and purchas-
ing by Vermont farmers. While
they show clearly enough that
these aids to profit in the pursuit
OF agriculture are not taken advan-
tage of in this state to anywhere
near the extent that they are util-
lied throughout the Middle West,
yet they also make it plain that
Vermont farmers are awakening to
the benefits thus to be derived and
are already taking the lead among
New England agriculturalists in
availing themselves of such assis-
lance.
The 1920 Census of Agriculture
credits Vermont with 29,075 farms.
OF these only 1898, or four and
three-tenths per cent. report sales
of their products through farmers
marketing organization, and but
1872, or five and eight-tenths per
cent, testify to having employed
farmers organiza tions to aid them
in the purchase or-* supplies.
Maine, with a total of 1927
farms, reports but two and six
tenths per cent of them as dispos-
inc of their goods by this method,
while across the Connecticut river
in the Granite State the percentage
is only six-tenths of one per cent,
but 1872 farms out of 20,523 taking
advantage of cooperative market
ing agencies. The average for the
whole of New England is two
and six-tenths per cent, which is
the exact ratio for Connecticut.
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island,
each field for considerable So
called "intensive farming" report
two and three-tenths per cent each
Thus it appears that Vermont
heads the New England list in this
respect.
The Green Mountain State does
mot lead Maine. however, in the
percentage of farms reporting the
purchase of supplies through CO.
operative channels, the Pine Tree
tatc's rate being seven and one
tenth per cent, as against YER
mont's five and eight-tenths. New
Hampshire farms number four and
six tenths per cent engaged in CO.
operative purchasing; Massachu-
sets, three and two-tenths; Rhode
Island, two and one-tenth; and
Connecticut, two per cent.
80 Seven and nine-tenths of all the
farms throughout the United
States report cooperative market
ing of products, and the individ-
ual per centages run as high as
AZ and nine-tenths, in Minnesota,
where there are manv cooperative
elevators and cooperative cream
cries. Other states with large per
centages are: South Dakota, 271;
Nebraska, 26.2; Wisconsin, 22.6;
North Dakota, 22.4; California,
PIG; Michigan, 21.4; and Kansas,
20.4.
These same states report extern
sive use of cooperative agencies
for the purchase of farm supplies,
the highest percentage beng y,
in Nebraska. The average for the
country as a whole is five and one
tenth per cent, which is slightly
below Velmont's record in this re-
spect, and somewhat higher than
that of New England, namely,
four and eight-tenths.
The value of farm products
marketed by Vermonters in 1919
through cooperative aids was
$1,449,385, which is the highest OF
any New England state with the
exception of Massachusetts, where
the value figures are given as
S1,671,09 The average amount
of products thus marketed PEI
Vermont farm footed up TO
s1.17O. In Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island the average value
ran up into the $4,000 class. But
little more than one-third of the
money obtained through the CO.
operative marketing of their out
puts by Vermont farms was spent
for supplies purchased through the
same class of aids, the value OF
these purchases in 1919 beng
S510,3O5, an average of $500 per
farm in Vermont.
Charles M. Cox of St. Adams,
representing the st. Adams Grain
Company, is expected to appear
before the Senate Finance Com
mittee shortly after the resump-
ton of Tariff hearings on Deem
Der 7th, to present arguments on
Schedule 7, agricultural Pro-
ducts and Provisions" Mr.. Cox
has already been in Washington in