The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-26
BUREAU
DIRECTOR NAMED
New Man Engaged For An
Important Task
OF TEXAS
Fight of Farm Creameries Being
Made Against the Cen
tralizers

VcnJlOn OF Inc american Farm BUT =
eau Federation re-dedicated the
movement to obtain better markets
for American farmers and instructed
the new administration TO organize
marketing division and place the
best man obtainable in charge.
This week, Walton Peteet secre-
tary OF the Texas Farm Bureau
Federation, it is announced, was Sc
lected for the job and will begin
work February /. He will receive
$4,000 a year. The selection ends
more than a month of continuous
search and the examination OF the
records of scores of possibilities"
Mr.. Peteet's selection is generally
approved by Minnesota farm lead
ers.
Mr.. Peteet has been in Farm Bur
! eau work for years and has been a
leader in the Texas Farm Bureau
business activities. President o. e.
Bradfute, in making public the news
OF the selection, said the Federation
had sought the best man in the
country for the job and that Mr..
! Peteet seemed best qualified for the
work.
His training" said Mr.. Bradfute,
gives him admirable qualification
for leadin gthe Farm Bureaus Su-
preme effort to secure for Amer
ican farmers the free exercise OF
1 their undisputed right to have
something to cay about the price of
his products"
The Texas Farm Bureau has more
than 10000 paid members, of which
tnearly 10000 are members of com
modify marketing organizations
with which the state federation is
closely linked. Producers of cotton,
hay, syrup, wool, alfalfa onions,
melons. sweet potatoes, tomatoes,
wheat and milk have been organ
lied and the volume of business
handled last year was approximate
ly $50, 100000.
Creareries Fight centralizer.
Facing the unyielding and I'M
compromising competition OF a
powerful, wealthy and well organi
zed cream centraliZer, dairymen OF
Dodge, Stearns and Benton coun-
ties have, united for self protection.
They are signing a voluntary con-
tract under the terms of which each
farmer agrees to deliver all his cream
to his own or some local CO. opera
tive creamery. This is their first
step 10 uclcdl CcLupOid dry ptiSc az
vantages and other tricks of the
trade" that are used to wean TAR
mers away from their own market
+ ing organizations.
Steps taken by the Blue Valley
Creamery company to break into the
Minnesota field a. Sank Center and
it's reported plan to branch out into
other dairy sections of the state
have resulted in, renewed loyalty to
local creameries on the part of far
mers. ....-
in the Sank Center territory.
creameries have organized to JOIN
the Minnesota Co operative Cream
cry association, according to A. j..
Nc CURE, general manager.
The proposed contracts, says Mr..
Nc CURE, run for two years and will
continue thereafter automatically,
keep cream away from any central
Eizer. rather than TO have it deliver
ed to any one local creamery.
The district, to be known as No. z
in the state association, has hired
for it's manager NJ. p. Mortenson of
Austin, formerly manager OF the
state creamery at Albert Lea and
rated as one of the best butter
makers in the northwest. W. r.
Linyille of Long Prairie and George
Strass of Sank Center are chairman
and secretary, respectively, OF the
new district ...-
Adequate Car Supply Sought
more equitable and adequate
distribution OF freight cars is the
object of the Northwest Regional
Advisory Board to the Car Service
Division OF the American Railway
Aer ;af YnrfnnfnH n Minnna M
lis last week. President J. r. Reed
of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, representing farmers, is
chairman.
The meeting was called by ID. d.
Conn, director of public. relations of
the American Railway Car Service.
Present at the meeting were men
from Minnesota, North Dakota,
South Dakota and Montana, repre-
senting farmers, farmers elevators,
livestock shippers, coal dealers,
commissioners, bankers and the
railroads doing business in the four
states. T.. Il. U.s..
The undertaking is called the
most important step yet taken to
end the car shortage that has
the crop movement started last fall.
Sub committees, representing live
stork, coal, grain, -four, hay and
feed. fruits and vegetables and mis-
cellaneous freight interests, we're
formed TO compile data for presen
tation before meeting Of executive
committee, which will be held at
Minneapolis Feb. / , ..&
The conference will seek, first, to
obtain an adequate supply of cars,
and second, to assure adequate dis
tribution. .-... ... r.,
The conference developed the fact
that farmer elevators have been es-
pecially hard hit this fall. E"s
Similar organizations are to form
at Chicago. New York, Boston and
san Francisco, ..-
Committee to Aid Potato Growers
Initial steps to remedy adverse
marketing conditions that last fall
spelled extreme hardship for thou
sands OF potato growers in the
Northwest were taken in st. Paul
last week at a conference called by
n. J. Holmberg. Minnesota's Com
missioner of Agriculture
The conference authorized The ap
poiDtment of committee repre-
senting Minnesota, North and South
Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and
Michigan to work out plan TO OBJ
tain balanced production, standard
ization and a more satisfactory
marketing organization than exists
at present. A. M. Dunton, manager
Of the state Potato Exchange is the
Minnesota membef.