The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1921-10-12
Market ASS n
Hears Norcross
Farmers Are Told That Future of
the Project is Bound Up In
Dairying
(By AL Reed)

Saturday was circus day and incl
dentaliy the day set for the meet
ing to consider the new marketing
association. 1t turned out that
some of the farmers found it neces-
sary to take the kids to the show
but almost without exception they
came back for Mr.. Norcross' talk
on marketing. Before the meeting
opened the farmers gathered enjoy
ed the parade. Nothing could be
done until the attractions of this
feature had drawn its tribute from
the onlookers.
Mr. Norcross gave the best talk
of the many he has favored Fallon
with in his recent meetings That
the project was essentially a dairy
country and that everything possible
that could be done to augment the
dairy industry should and would be
done by the new association, and
tnat cows were the real goal that
the farmers here should go after.
Feeder stuff (cattle and sheep)
should be brought in. There are
according to Mr.. Norcross sufficient
sheep in this state known as mouth
sheep that could be brought into
the county and fed for from one to
two years and then turned off in
fairly good condition. The associa-
tlon having a man in the field look
ing for just such buys and locating
them successfully with the hay pro-
ducers. Ii such coordination is pos
sible the new association will be a
success from the start.
An association that has the big
majority of the farm crops signed
up In the contract forms, will be in
a much better position to ask for
loans for the use in the bringing in
of the necessary cattle and sheep to
handle the surplus of hay here. 1t
can readily be seen that the combin-
ed efforts of any group, will accom-
plish the desired results where indi-
yidually nothing could be obtained.
The fact that the money is need
ed and according to a recent state
ment there was some doubt as to
whether the local institutions in
tended to handle this money, seems
to be another fact showing the ne
cessity of the market exchange
which would be in a better position
to act for the producers.
The fact has become clearly es-
tablished also that the price of Cali
fornia hay on the San Francisco
market is established and held by
Nevada hay. Hay on this market is
at the present time S14.00. This
when analyzed is exactly what il
costs the commission man to export
the hay. Hay is selling here at
$3.50, freight rate $3.50 total
Sl4.O0. The reason that price of
hay on the Los Angeles market is
higher than these hgures is simply
because the Nevada hay can not be
shipped there because of the high
freight rates. Nevada hay has even
set the price of western hay on the
New York market through the same
line of reasoning. The idea is that
If the Nevada hay producers were
organized the price of hay could be
raised s2.00 and held there by the
work of the two organizations. In
other words just as much hay can be
sold for two or three dollars more
per ton as is now being sold at the
present price. A fine example of
this is shown by the work of the
cotton producers of the South. Cot
ton was selling at lac per pound
and the price after the organization
went into effect was Immediately
raised to zoe. Simply through the
use of the right methods of DISPOSE
ton and distribution. 1t might be
well also to mention that the cotton
growers were paid $4,000 per bail
on each bail urned over to the as
sociation. California organizations
have the same record behind them.
Meetings are to be held at the
following community eenters this
week Tuesday night at the Island
district; Wednesday night at
Northam; Thursday night at Union
district and Friday night at Lone
Tree district. Mr.. Noreross will be
on hand for each one of these meet
ing and any one that has heard him
will know that the evening will be
well and profltably spent in coming
out and hearing the details of the
Market Exchange.