The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-11-09

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.pckota during the>I s year accord
lag to Gordon w. Ra !, t, director OF
the state extension & on.
For an agricultui ollege or
county agent to mis- cooperative
marketing of farm |, ucts OF farm
financing "a decade ..p~ would have
been considered heresy," declared Mr.
Randlett today. ..1 Z :
Developments of the past few
years, however, bring out most en-
paat;cally that problems of production
only do not make up well-balanced
program. of extension work. Each OF
the 36 county extension agens in N.
D. is making a study of the particu-
lar local problem and with the coop
GRAFTON Of our state agents and of the
farmers in the county is putting into
operation as rapidly as possible pro-
gram calculated to bring about effic-
lent production, economic marketing
and adequate financing. Full opera
ton of such a program will result in
a maximum price to the farmer fol
his products and minimuml price to
the consumer happy condition for
the public in general. :
"Last spring the Extension Division
and the North Dakota Agricultural
college, together with the county ex-
tension agents, openly advocated a
reduction in the acreage Of wheat due
to the excessive carry-over from the
1921 crop and the indications from ev-
cry quarter Of large crop this year,
with a consequent flooding Of the mar
ket and a small price per bushel for
the crop this fall. Present prices JUS
tify the attitude taken by the extern
sion agents last spring.
"tGo slow on potatoes was the adj
vice from the extension staff to the
farmers Of the state last spring. Small
acreages and thoro grading Of the pro
duct before marketing were advised.
Many farmers, influenced by the sue
cess of their neighbors with potatoes
the previous year, plunged heavily,
with the result that at the present
time potatoes which are not strictly
graded, are nearly worthless.
"Our work has not been confined to
calling attention to market and crop
conditions. At all times we have fur
nished farmers with information re-
garding existing marketing agencies.
County agents have held meetings at
which they have presented the various
cooperative plan for marketing wheat,
such as the u. S. Grain Growers, Inc.
the North Dakota Wheat Growers and
the Equity Farmers have not been adj
vised to join any particular agency,
but they have received valuable infor-
nation regarding the fundamental
principles of successful cooperative
marketing. S..>- ..r.,
"One Of the most successful market
ing projects which was formed largely
through the activity of the county
extension agents is the North Dakota
wool pool, which has just closed out
the 1922 clip at prices netting the
growers an average of 35 cents per
pound, or from five to ten cents more
than was realized on the acreage by
growers who sold thru other sources.
"Scores of local potato marketing
associations have been organized by
county extension agents and plans are
well under way for statewide po-
tato marketing organization in CO.
operation with the Farm Bureau.
Nearly fifty livestock shipping asso-
Citations have been formed, and more
than a dozen cooperative cream ship
ping associations. County agents
were also active in organizing a num-
ber Of the seed marketing associations
for such products as alfalfa, sweet
clover, bronze grass, etc. Within the
last few months a full time marketing
specialist has entered the employ OF
the extension division, and it is plan
ned to elaborate considerably on this
type of work in the future.
t'In the western part Of the state
county agents have helped farmers
secure seed loans from the federal
government, and in those counties en-
ploying agents more than twice as
many loans were secured than in the
counties that do not. Agents have al
so been active in organizing so that
farmers could secure long time loans
at reasonable rates from the federal
/. farm land bank"
REVOLT EMINENT in BEvARIA