The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-26
A REAL SERVICE
FOR H FARMER
THAT is PLAN OF WHEATLAND
COUNTY COOPERATIVE MAR
KETING ORGANIZATION
Head OF HarIowton High School Will
Cooperate With Association in the
Matter of Handling Eggs and
Poultry.

At a meeting held recently, tn
board of directors of the Wheatlant
County Cooperative Marketing asso
citation decided to get the machiner.
of the organization in readiness Il
handle the produce of farmers.
Already arrangements have beer
made for marketing wheat through
Montana Wheat Growers with a large
percentage of the wheat growers il
the county signing contracts to mar
ket through the association. The
local association is making plans fol
handling the crop at threshing time
and will provide loading places at
the different loading stations where
members deliver their wheat. This
cost to the members.
Eggs and Poultry
Mr.. Border of the Harlowton high
school offered to cooperate with the
association in the matter of handling
eggs and poultry. He has agreed to
put in what time is necessary in sort
ing, Gambling and packing eggs de-
livered to him by persons who desire
to market this class of produce CO.
operatively. His plan was to have
every producer deliver his eggs at
the school house in Harlowton and
with his help grade and sort ready
for shipment. This service will be
free to association members and will
be a great help in getting a better
quality of goods on the market. The
first class eggs that will go out I'M
der the association label will be in
fertile, good size and clean. Fertile
eggs will be sent out as common eggs
but packed and graded the same as
the others.
Arrangements are being made at
the present time for the handling of
turkeys and chickens later in the sea-
son. If there are enough poultry
raisers in the county who want to
market live or dressed poultry the as
sociation will have a Chicago buyer
stop over there during the fall and
take the entire stock for the holiday
trade. This buyer took one a out
of Montana last year and paid 35
cents live weight for a." rkeys. The
birds we're brought in alive and kill
ed, dressed and packed by experts.
Every farmer has a few head of
cattle each year to sell, but usually
he does not have enough to ship and
had to depend on the local market to
consume them. This is usually un-
satisfactory as the market is soon
The association plans to
these few head of cattle, held
by each member, and ship them to
the markets where they can get as
good a price as the big cattle men.
There are selling organizations at
he big markets who handle such
and prorate the returns
such a way that each shipper is
)aid for the animals he ships.
Buys for Farmers s
This organization will buy as we'll {
Is sell but in it's buying it will give l
he local dealer the first chance at !
Ill orders. At the present time Irvine l
are being taken and as soon as I
his work is done, bids will be asked i.
,or. The firm offering the lowest
satisfactory bid will receive the Irvine )
from the association.
This organization is only one of {
many springing up over the country
hat are organized for the purpose
If getting a better product on the I
market for about the same money as q
he consumer now pays for a poorly z
,acked, poorly graded product. f