The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1923-12-05
Dairy interests
Hear Address
Sacramento Man Tells
of Work in Cooper
ative Management

Last Saturday morning the meet
ing of the dairy interests called by
members of the Northern California
MIX Producers Association was wei.
attended and while the meeting was
a bid for cream products from this
section much was discussed that was
OF more than passing interest Fol-
lowing the meeting members of tho
| association visited a number of the
dairy farms and the situation has
been pretty well gone over. Undoubt-
edup this cooperative concern will
handle some of the products from
this county and as the herds increase
so will the shipments.
OF the several speakers who ad-
dressed the meeting that of Mr.. ]. n.
Henderson of Sacramento was prob.
ably the most pointed in its general
tiles. A summary of his remarks are
as follows:
Pioneer American agriculture has
faded into memory. The old front.
Ter has gone, the wilderness Is con-
quered. The pioneer farmer was self
sufficing, the modern farmer Is
specialist. Metropolitan growth made
specialization of agriculture necer-
sary and opened the way to a COM
plex and costly distribution Ameri-
can farmers are the most efficient
producers in the world. their bounty
always feeds the nation.
Around distribution. not produc-
ton are centered modern agrfcul-
lures most pressing problems. There
are constantly reoccurring faults In
methods OF distribution. 1t is neces-
sary to enter this field through CO.
operative enterprises.
Primarily the development OF CO.
operative marketing is the producers
challenge to the 37-cent dollar and
to the conditions which continue to
exist. Farmers believe thoroughly
that their business of feeding and
clothing the world is worth more
than two-thirds as much as distribut-
ing the fruition of their labors, and
they resolve that IL the system OF
distribution, prevailing won't give
them more than 81 cents Of the con-
sumer's dollar they will establish one
that will.
"The propriety of producers as
suming to distribute their products
is strenuously questioned in certain
quarters. The favorite argument that
farming is production and that the
farmers business is to grow abun-
dant crops, deliver them at harvest
time to the highest bidder, and then
go home and produce more.
'The cooperative associations feel
keenly the obligation to get food
products to the consumer with the
least possible waste and at the least
possible cost consistant with good
farming. This obligation is just as
sacred to them as the obligation to
produce these crops in the first place.
There is no more reason that the
farmer be expected to confine his
effort solely to the production of his
crops, than that the manufacturer
should be expected to confine his at.
tention solely to the mechanical
proposition of manufacturing his
goods.
Under cooperative marketing all
selfish interests are set aside and
the producer pools mis- crop with that
of his neighbor. For like quality and
grade they receive the same price
Their crop moves to the market from
the common supply in very orderly
fashion. There is no surplus bugaboo
relentlessly on their heels and fore
ing ruinous price for their produc-
tion.
'The farmer retains his individ-
ualism as a producer and puts his
product on the market as sales man
ager. Neighbors join with neighbors
Each man has one vote In the or
ganization, and they share alike In
new system of economical justice for
agriculture"