Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-09
STATES AGRICULTURAL
INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE
Millions of Dollars Have Been
Saved Farmers of the East
in Past Two Years

fort during the present period Of
readjustment and confidence in their
| ability to do so successfully, was the
I keynote of the third annual meeting
of the Eastern States Agricultural
and Industrial League which took
place. in the Municipal Building,
Springfield, Massachusetts, the first
Of February.
Important progress in the accom-
plishment of the aims and purposes of
| the Eastern States League has been
made during the past year according
to the annual report which was made
/ public at the meeting. The work Of
the cooperative purchasing and mar
I keting department of the Eastern
States Farmers Exchange has been
exceedingly successful and has dem
onstrated the efficacy of combined
purchasing effort. Extensive and
! significant strides have been made in
the boys and girls work by the Junior
| Achievement Bureau Of the League
! and the work of the Home Bureau
| only recently organized, has met with
| enthusiastic response and hearty CO.
operation.
According to the report the volume
| of business handled during the past
| year by the Eastern States Farmers
| Exchange aggregated $1,612,O 10000 as
| compared with 1867 ,224.OO in 1919.
The tonnage increase over the pre-
vious year was 1850. This repre-
sents ga cars of grain, feed, fertiliz-
err and farm products. It is pointed
out that through the direct and in
direct influence of the Eastern States
Farmers Exchange a saving of pos
sibly several million dollars has been
effected for the farmers of the East
during the past two years. Estlmat-
| ing an average saving of twenty per-
| cent would show a saving of $780,
| 100000 to the farmers on the actual
| purchases of two and half million
dollars worth of supplies during the
| past two years. These actual saw
| ings, however, are a very small part
| of the total savings effected through
the influence of the Eastern States
Farmers Exchange and in many cases
! local associations have been able to
buy in carload lots for their members
on better terms through regular trade
channels than through the Farmers
J Exchange.
The report shows that Massachu-
sets led in the volume of purchases
while Vermont, New Hampshire and
Connecticut show substantial increas-
IS over the 1919 volume. In Con-
necticut the increase of business
handled by the Farmers Exchange
was 253 percent over the previous
year. A beginning has been made in
the Standardization and marketing
of potatoes. The standardization OF
farms products is an essential step
in cooperative marketing and in the
creation of a profit for the farmer
and satisfaction for the consumer
The report summarizes the years &C
complishments and calls attention tc
the Unprecedented business conditions
and cites the ability of the Farmers
! Exchange to grow and expand un.
, der those circumstances as definite
instance of the permanency of the CO.
operative movement. 1t says: "Las1
years unparalleled conditions cons
tituted the most severe test which
could have been applied to the co
operative movement. The manner lr
which the farmer has stood the test
is an emphatic answer to the oft-made
question: els the cooperative move
nent among the farmers of the East
temporary activity or is it one which
has come to stay? "There can be nc
mistake about it. The cooperative
movement has come to stay and is
each year growing, solidifying ane
rapidly working toward success"
) The work of the Junior Achieve
ment Bureau of the Eastern State:
League among boys and girls is a
present attracting national attention
According to the report more thar
six thousand boys and girls were di
; rectly reached and organized int
Junior Achievement clubs. These
clubs consist of teams and working
group of boys and girls who make {
came of work and who have become
! Interested in industry, commerce
trade, agriculture, home-making ane
craftsmanship. 1t is estimated tina
, about twenty thousand boys and girl:
E were indirectly reached through thi:
work.
The organizations which are cooper
ating in this work rank among the
i, highest in their communities ant
many of them are of national i'm
oortance and influence. Among then
!, are such organizations as the Inter
national Rotary Club, the New Eng
; land Rotary Club, the Associated In
dustries Of Massachusetts, Manufac
: tUrers' Association of Connecticut
New Jersey State Teachers Associa
! ton, local Rotary clubs, chambers o.
commerce and numerous women's or
CARNATIONS.
One of the outstanding features OF
) the work was the organization II
Massachusetts of a Baby Beef Club
Sixteen baby beeves, totaling 1856.
: pounds, were purchased by boys ano
. girls who fed ard cared for them for
Eve. months and then placed them or
competitive exhibition at the Eastern
States Exposition where they We're
sold at auction. The gain in weight
Of the beeves amounted to 4,295
pounds. This demonstration is
significant of the possibilities of de-
veloping the baby beef industry in
New England. The increased inter
est as a result Of this competition is
shown by the fact that after the ex-
position fifty-two animals were re-
auested by boys and girls and We're
distributed and will be put up for
sale next Fall.
The report also makes feature OF
/ the boys and girls work which was
, carried on during the Eastern States
!, Exposition when three camps were
: conducted on the exposition grounds
One was known as the Junior Ack:o-.
ement Village, made up Of boys arr
| rirls belonging to various Junior