Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-12
FOR FARM
MARKETING OPENED
BY AGR|CULTURAL|STS
American Institute of Agricul'
ture to Teach Selling
to Producers.

C~hicago.-A new national school
knoWn as The American Institute o.
Agriculture, to teach the principle.
and practices of the marketing of farm
products, has just been established il
chicago by a large group Of promin-
net agriculturists and marketing
specialists, according to announcement
mere, and complete marketing courses
VIII be offered in the fall and win
ter. The director of the school is
George Livingston, formerly chief OF
the United States bureau of markets;
and the chairman of the advisory coun-
Gil, which includes many widely known
men, is J. r. Howard, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton.
A number of farmers national as
Soclatlons are cooperating with the in
sltute, but the school will be indepen-
dent in administration and policies.
In the beginning, courses in the mar
ketlng of grain, livestock, fruits and
vegetables. poultry and poultry pro-
ducts. dairy products and cotton will
be offered by the extension method.
but later a resident school Of market
Ing and agricultural economics will be
established in Chicago. There will also
be an employment clearing house for
marketing specialists.
The significance of this new move
ment. according to the founders of the
institute, lies in the fact that it is
the first attempt to organize systema-
tic instruction in agricultural market
ing. which has been a subject of
rapidly increasing interest among
farmers and the trades allied with
agriculture. for the last six or eight
years. The institute in formulating
these courses has enlisted the CO.
operation of about seventy nationally
known authorities, each of whom will
write or lecture on the particular
through day-by day contact.
Some of the men on the staff of in
struction are Representative Sydney
Anderson, chairman of the congress
sional joint commission of agricultural
inquiry; Edwin T. Meredith, formerly
secretary of a%griculture; Julius Fl.
Barnes, grain merchant and business
executive: A. F. Lever, formerly mem
Der of the federal farm loan board and
author of many agricultural bills in
congress: Charles j. Brand. vice-presi-
dent of the American Fruit Growers.
Inc. formerly chief of the United
States bureau of markets; II. Parker
Willis. professor of banking. Columbia
University; Dean II. W. Mumford of
the college of agriculture, Illinois; Fl.
c. Taylor. chief of the bureau of
markets and crop estimates: W. J..
Spillman, formerly chief of the office
of farm management. United States
department of agriculture; W. s. Gull
bertson. of the United States tariff
commission. and E. Dana Durand, of
the department of commerce.
Members of the advisory council. in
addition to Mr.. Howard. are E. T.
Meredith. Sydney Anderson. Julius Fl.
Barnes. Harvey ]. Sconce and Brad
ford Knapp.
The course of instruction offered by
the institute will contain about fifty
lessons. and will last for approximately
one year. II lesson being sent to the
student each week. Half of each
course will be fundamental instruction
commodity lines chosen by the student
on agricultural economies, and the
other half will be along the special
for study.
Students will be charged enrolment
fees, and the institute aims to be self
supporting. Its original capital has
been supplied by about fifty agricul-
~turists. 1t is not an endowed institu-
ton. for the founders assert this will
make the school more responsive to
actual educational demands in the