Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-31
URGES GREATER
COOPE RATION
AMONG FARMERS
Cooperative Producing and
Marketing to Solve Farm
Problem Is Belief

Cooperative producing and market
ing Is the key to unlock moro money
for tho farmer. ranchman and dairy
man. SO thinks County Agricultural
list W. II. Sawhill THE Cooperative
Creamery at Rye is II case In point
said he. and perhaps it is next to
stration OF the effect OF real cooper
alton. There are farmers whose
monthly check for milk is two hundred
dollars. and taking into account the
additional income from their herds IN
the way OF manure and calves, they
are living on Easy street. Dairying
permits of closely knit cooperative or
ganization. Only one expert has to be
hired. And such n plant tends to BRING
higher grade COWS into the conmun-
ity."
pasture Tuesday evening to consider a
cooperative method of marketing their
milk. II the grade of milk is kept high,
it is possible to make more money
than by sending 1t to distributors in
the city. Some of the city distributors
are demanding a lower price from the
farmer, and that Is one reason for the
agitation for cooperative selling.
Mr.. Sawhiil has been out in the
northeast part of the county. and says
that the dry landers have done well be-
cause what rain they had this year
Cdne at the rlSHI DctteE ndio
wheat has come from the northeast
part OF the county than from the
southeast where more attention is be-
ing paid to feeding. There Is to be an
effort made to sccare some OF the
loan money administered By the gov
ernment farm loan committee in the
dry farm sections. These loans are
made at per cent with three year
term, and privilege OF renewal
Some farmers could make use OF
such facilities and have time to grade
up their herds.
Mr.. Sawhill is interested in Kanred
hard wheat which he says laboratory
tests show is superior to Turkey red
In fact it started from a single select
ed head of Turkey red, and has been
cultivated until now it is in demand
by some mills even more than the old
or grade. The trouble with wheat in
the southeast part of the county has
been that while the quality has been
high the quantity has been low. Mr.
Carter OF Highlands. says that 1t costs
SO much to get it into the ground and
to get 1t out TO the mill, that cattle
are "A better proposition. Mr.. Harmon
from north of the city is interest
cd in high grading or cattle, and it is
such men who help To make ccnters of
cooperative activities.
A community testing of cows is one
form in which cooperative work is
done. An expert Is cnplOyc0 VINO
knows the game of getting milk of
high grade. Ho is assisted to secure
twenty-five patrons, and he visits their
herd. milks their cows night and
morning; weighs the milk. tests the
butter fat. gets line on amount of
their feed, and such items. and is able
10 show which of Their cows are prof
liable to keep. 1t i5 just the same
work with cows that Mr.. Jameson
does with poultry. and which he is
expected to demonstrate at certain
points in Pueblo county the latter part
of this week. such cooperative work
assures larger production from the
plant known rs farm.
Another side of this subject, Mr..
Sawhill sets forth as he quotes govern
ment figures tina. show for every dol
lar received from tho public in certain
lines of farm produce, the producer
gets but thirty cents. And when CO.
operatice producing and cooperative
marketing is employed the producer
gets from forty to fifty
cents of the dollar. That Is why
such an official is concerned to inspire
associated effort that shall be prof
table to the communities. And when
one line of production shows an in
creased profit by such method 1t
stimulates efforts In other lines. We
have not begun to got tho benefits to
he derived from cooperative activities
in our farming sections