Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-06-02
FAR ! | ] | E|R|l AVE !.
500 A WEEK
COOPERATIVE cREAnlERIEs AS.
soCIATIoN SHIP As CARS
EVERY. 4 DAYS UNDER PLAN
s5(By Farm Bureau Service)

creameries8 q composing the statewide
cooperating creameries association are
saving $4,000 every sevens days.
The association announced today
that: As carloads of butter. are being
shipped by Minnesota farmer owned
creameries every week, under the con-
by the state organization The diff
ference between freight rates on car
lots and on less -than-carlots amounts
to about 500 on every carload shipped,
according to A. J. McGuire,> manager Of
the Minnesota cooperative Creameries
AssOcia tion,. Inc. =, -:
The $l0O savingsin freight on each
car is net gain, he said, after all eX-
penses of assembling the butter at a
central point have been paid.
Farmer. Win Reserve Post
F.. Another of the legislative demands
which farmers of this county helped
to write into the agricultural program
of the Farm Bureau q few months ago
has been granted by congress.
The bill charging the federal re-
serve band board, and instructing the
president Of the United States to re-
cognize agriculture in appointments to
the board, has been passed by both
houses of congress-
The Minnesota Farm Bureau Fedora
tions agricultural program for 1922,
drawn up and adopted in the third an
nual convention of the organization
most every county in the state, says:
1--WE further demand that the control
of the Federal Reserve System be no
longer vested in a board made up SOLE
ly of bankers. lawyers, and professors,
but that basic productive industry, in
Guiding agriculture be accorded direct
on the board or boards
governing the Reserve System and any
other governmental agency involving
credit distributiOn.'
OLE II oS 10 a.
cognized the farmers right to collec-
tive bargaining, which the Farm Bu-
reau had asked in ats legislative pro-
gram for 1922. The federal co-opera-
tive marketing bid was passed early
this year. IS
State weighing Still in Force
South st. Paul, May s1:-Whos who
in regulation Of the South St. Paul
livestock market is still puzzle.
State Weighing, demanded by the al
most unanimous voice of the livestock
producers Of the state, is still in force.
All supervisory work OF the state rail-
road warehouse commission is going
on as usual, in spite OF the tact tnat
the federal law has been held constl-
tutional, and the United States depart
menr Of justice has declared the feder-
al law entirely supersedes state con-
troll.
Under this ruling, state weighing
pervision which is supported by the
Weighing fees, would be destroyed.
But the state has checkmated the
federal authorities. A temporary court
government from interfering in any
way with the enforcement OF state su-
perNision and weighing.
Meanwhile, Minnesota farmers are
urging the agricultural committee OF
the lower house of congress to get be-
l.; prevent
any interference -witH--stat te supervisor
and weighing by the federal govern
ment County Farm bureau directors
and officers in every important nFe-
stock producing county IN the state
have voted unanimously in favor OF
Two other cases involving the right
of the public to supervise distributor
of it's food also are marking tlme
The courts have yet to decide whether
the state has the right to enforce re.
ductions in livestock commission rates
and charges for hay and bedding IN
the South st. Paul market. Inc rail-
road and warehouse commission sever
al months ago ordered drastic reduc'
tions; the orders have been tied up II
the courts ever since on appeals. IL
The meantime, the private commlsslo1
companies were directed by court Or
der to set aside in a trust 1und I'M
rates ordered by the commission. ih'
stockyards company was given orders
to set aside in a similar fund the oil
| ference between prevailing charges TO
hay and bedding and those ordered ps
| the state. ...
The trust fund covering the differ
! ence in commission charges amount
| to more than $2O0.000, according to OF
! 1icials in charge of state regulat1on'
State Agricultural Loans $12,OOO,OOO
| Loans for agricultural purposes
/ granted in Minnesota by the; agrlcul
! tural loan agency Of the War Flnanc
| corporation, have reached total o
more than $l2,O00,000. Application
from Minnesota, North Dakota an
South Dakota have been approved TO
more than $46,000,000. Bankers ar
! quoted by the Minnesota Farm Burea'
! federation as saying that it it had no
been for the loans obtained from th
War Finance corporation, thousands 0
| farmers loans would have had to b
! called instead of being carried owe
into another season. The agrlcultura
! loan agency was created by a Law
| backed by the Farm Bureau.
VERNON ENDORSED BY MORR1
SON COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION
The Morrison County Bar Assoc1a
ton, which includes all the members o
| 4sE 49,