The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-11-30

ington State College, Pullman, at the
State Unity Day program, sponsored
by the Washington State Press asso-
citation, at Ellensburg, August "A. In
stallments of this address will be
printed in the Gazette from week to
week until the entire article has been
published.)
The United Dairy association OF
Washington and associations which
are members of or closely affiliated
with it, in 1922 marketed over $4,000
900 worth of dairy products, accord
ing to reports of Mr.. j. A. Scollard,
president of the association. This is
approximately onethird of the dairy
products marketed in the state of
Washington. 1t is estimated by Mr..
Scollard that with the dairy products
marketed by cooperatives outside of
the United Dairy association, all CO.
operatives together are marketing in
the aggregate approximately one-half
OF all the dairy products produced in
this state. Dairymen are thoroughly
alive to the value of cooperative man
ufacturing and marketing of their pro-
ducts and large numbers are con
WINGED that it is indispensable to their
success.
Among the apple growers there are
at least five leading cooperative mar
keting associations and II number of
others which are more than local assO-
Citations. About one-third of all the
apples produced in the state are mar
keted through them. large number
cooperative apple marketing asso-
Citations has been the result in part
perhaps of sectional differences be-
tween the several apple growing dis
tricts. The associations have begun to
ing apples independently Of each other
they not only compete against the APP
pie growers of the east but against
each other. This has been brought
home convincingly within the last
few years and there is now strong
movement on foot among the north
west growers for a federation of CO.
operative marketing agencies of this
and adjoining states to coordinate all
efforts in marketing the northwest
apples. This seems a thoroughly log
ical and practical development and
should prove of outstanding service to
our great apple producing industry.
The Washington-Idaho WheatgrOw-
ers association with headquarters at
Spokane, is one of the newer cOmmod-
ity marketing organizations and was
organized in 1920. In that year it sold
over a million bushels of wheat and in
1921, 6,27O,OOO. In 1922 fewer bushels
were handled largely as the result Of
short crop and the extremely diff
cult financial conditions of the farms
which made it necessary for many of
the growers to mortgage their crop be-
fore ready for market. While this as
ISOLATION has encountered most of the
difficulties of cooperatives blazing
the trail on q large scale, this year 1t
will market the largest bushelage in
it's history. Because of criticism of its
work by large number of members
and others not affiliated, it recently
gave its members opportunity to vote
Oh disincorporation. OF total of 2997
members, only $50 active members
voted to disincorporate and 1923 voted
against disincorporation, more than
two to one thus voting being in favor
of continuing the association. As a
two-thrds vote is necessary to disin-
corporate and every member was full
ly informed as to the purpose of the
vote and understood that failure to
vote counted the same as a vote for
the association, it was the opinion of
the directorate that more than 70 per
cent of the members wished to con-
tinue. The association is now going
ahead with renewed vigor and has
U1dQe SUCH ClduStS It's toiltiuNtS as
three years experience indicates
would be helpful. In 1922 and 1923,
Washington wheat has been selling
on the coast markets at a higher
price than is received for the same
grade of wheat on the Chicago mar
kets. The Washington Wheat Growers
association is thoroughly convinced
that it has been a large factor in
bringing about this condition and 1t
Is safe to assume that its influence in
this direction has been marked.
While cooperative marketing asso'
Citations have met many obstacles ana
reserves in the last two years, they
have gained Tremendously in prestige
not only among their own members
but with the public at large and the
principles and policy of cooperative
marketing have been endorsed moi
only by farm leaders but by bankers
leaders in large industrial enterprises
by legislatures, by congress, by cab
lata