The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-11-25

! companies. Not long ago L saw
the statement that the farmers"
companies of Michigan save the farm
ers of that state $2,000,000 annually
in that they carry their insurance for
thirty cents a hundred as against
seventy cents charged by the stock
companies. The Farmers Union CO.
operative Insurance company of Ne
braska has more than $10,000,0O0 OF
insurance in force.
More Proft-Paying Teamwork.
In many rural sections telephone
service is given by farmers mutual
company. 1t is said that there are a
thousand such companies in Minneso-
ia alone, though the tendency is to-
ward a decline in numbers, as little
companies everywhere are combining
in the interest of better service.
The farmers of Willard county,
Utah, covered 1920 acres with poison
that killed 42,030 ground squirrels at
an estimated saving through cooper
alton of S21 900 Some $4,000 acres
were baited for jack rabbits and 5O,-
900 were killed.
Reports to the States Relations Ser
show that in the northern and west
ern states last year county farm bu-
reaus and county agents helped to or
ganize 1888 cooperative associations,
which did a business of nearly S40,-
100000, saving the farmers $780,
764. The total business done by all
the cooperative association coopera-
ing with the farm bureaus and the
county agents in this territory
amounted to 1915, 100000.
In Kansas the leading statewide
organizations are affiliated in the
Kansas Agricultural Council. Drawn
together to improve agriculture, the
State Livestock association, the State
Grange, the Equity Union, the Farm
ers' Cooperative Grain Dealers asso-
citation and the State Horticultural
Society.
There are some $50 individual or
CARNATIONS of the Farmers Union in
Nebraska. Their combined business
last year represented a turnover of
$125, 100000 The Farmers Union Ex-
change, with headquarters at Omaha,
reported net sales of $2,384 SIG.
There are also branches at eight. 9TH
er Nebraska cities on the chain-store
plan. The Farmers Union Livestock
commission of Nebraska, with houses
at the stockyards at South Omaha,
st. Joseph, Missouri, and Sioux City,
Iowa, handled 1886 cars of stock,
with saving to patrons of nearly
100000.
Of the 465 farmers elevators in the
state some 200 are Farmers Union
enterprises. There are sizable flour
mills at Sciibner, Snyder and Crete.
There are numerous Farmers Union
stores and mercantile associations,
large centralized creameries at FIRE.
mont and Superior, and other activ-
tiles. Can't farmers work together?
The Michigan Fruit Growers Elk
change, with headquarters at Benton
Harbor in the fruit belt of Southern
Michigan, handled a million dollars
worth OF fruit for its fourteen men,
Der associations last year.
Through it's various departments
the Michigan State Farm Bureau is
setting the pace for cooperation for
the other farm bureaus of the coun-
try. Last year its seed department
alone distributed 100000 pounds of
guaranteed seed to thousands of
farmers through 800 cooperative as
sociations located in seventy-nine of
the states eight-three counties.
Other Striking Examples.
The Michigan State Farm Bureau
wool pool totaled 3,500,O0O pounds |
last year, and it is expected to go to
4 100000 pounds in 1921. BY arrange
ment with several factories much of |
the clip is being made into virgin
wool blankets and suitings which are
being marketed by the bureau. Suit
lngs and blankets were being sold at
the rate of a thousand dollars worth /
a day this summer and $4,000 blank
cts had been ordered for a fall sales
The Michigan State Farm Bureau
Elevator Exchange, with nearly 100
of the states IT'S cooperative eleva-
tors as members, is handling 25 per
cent of the grain, hay and beans ship
ped out of Michigan.
Forty dairymen supply the citv of
tucson, Arizona, with milk. Through
the Tuscon Cooperative Dairymen's
association they are doing a business
Of S15, 900 a month