Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-03
BUYING POOL
 ORGANIZED BY FARMERS

The same kind of cooperative buy ing pool that has operated for the past two years for the farmers ot New Lon don county has again been organized to handle fertilizers. seeds and lime for the spring Of 1923. Organization was effectd at a meeting of the New Lon don county farm and home bureau this week at which W. W. Service is chair man.
 Mr. Owens, crop specialist of the Con- necticut Agricultural college was called upon. He discussed the present situation in which the farmers find themselves with 9 comparatively low buying power com pared with men in other industries If the farmer is to get by in any kind of shape he must be able to buy cheaply. MT. Owens outlined briefly the present situation in fertilizer. From the present indications it would look as though the fertilizer price on raw materials at least, would be very reasonable for the spring of 1921. Although indications point to the fact that large fertilizer con- cerns have been endeavoring to. pull to- gether all of the fertilizer industries to maintain at least uniform level of price # not a higher level. In discussing the value of mixed as against unmixed goods MT. Owens said that there would always
 be. fairly large margin between the two and the farmer who is willing to ge to the inconvenience of mixing his own
 raw materials on the farm will always be the winner as far as price is con- cerned.
 In buying seeds quantity is always the first consideration. Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania formerly grew a great deal of Eureka corn for silage until the introduction of a large l type of Leaning proved to the farmers that it was worth while using this corn At the present time through the work
 done in demonstrations both at the Con- necticut Agricultural college and through the local Farm Bureau it has been pretty well established that corn bought directly from farmers in northern Penn l sylvania, and leaning bought from farm
 CTS in southern Ohio, will give us two very valuable varieties of silage corn
 If seed for these two varieties is bought
 in any other place it will be well. tc
 know where it was grown. MT. Owens advised that it is the best plan for farm CTS to attempt to buy their seeds as
 near direct from the men who grow | them as is possible. ! The question of whether to organize 2 buying pool for 1923 was then taken III and representatives of the different ex
 changes were called on for their opinion Everyone seemed to be highly in favol
 of the proposition and a motion wal
 made and carried that a pool be argan ized for fertilizer, lime and seed pota toes and that A. l.. Shedd of Preston be appointed buyer the same as in tn, past two years. A motion was also mad
 and seconded that pool orders be closet the first of January.
 ] A discussion then took place as t. the value of organizing a seed pool t. take in farm seeds such as clover. timo thy, seed oats, seed corn, etc. It was Vot
 ed that such pool be organized an, that NJ. H. Bartlett, manager of tn Jewett City Exchange be the buyer fo this pool. Following this action it wa voted that all farm seeds bought il 7 the pool should be bought from source approved by the county farm bureau ex tension service.