The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-01-26
GROWERS PATRONIZE
FEDERATED AGENCY
Fruit Vegetable Cooperative Finds
Hearty Response at $50 Markets

Fruit Vegetable Cooperative Finds
Hearty Response at $50 Markets
Thirty carloads of fruit and vege-
tables handled on the Chicago market
represented the first days business OF
the Chicago sales agency of the Fed
Grated Fruit Growers Inc, which
opened for business in Chicago jan
uary 2.
The Chicago sales agency was one
of $50 other cooperative sales agen-
cies which opened on that day in all
/ sections of the country and brought
to actual realization the dreams Of or
chardists and vegetable growers for
the last 25 years.
The interest of members of local
cooperative organizations in this new
cooperative selling machine is indi-
Gated by the numerous inquiries that
have been coming in from all sections
of the country to c. E. burst, secre-
tary of the Federated Fruit and Veg
etable Growers, Inc.
| The thirty carloads marketed In
Chicago on the first day were sold in
car lots to South Water Street mer-
chants.
The Federated Fruit 'and Vegetable
Growers, Inc, began active business
operations on January !, 1928, with
salaried statesmen, division offices and
bonded representatives in more than
$50 cities The division offices have
approximately 70 per cent Of the pop
ulation of the country. The sales or
ganization will be steadily expanded
until more than 200 cities will have
representatives Of this cooperative or
ganization stationed in them within
the first six months of operation.
The Federation is the first national
cooperative grower-owned sales or
ganization serving the growers Of per-
ishables from all states. The COM
modities being handled by this ma
tional sales federation include apples
from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Col
orado, New York, Ohio, and Michigan;
potatoes from Maine, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, North Dakota, Michigan and
Colorado; Sweet Potatoes from Tex
as and Georgia; citrus fruits from
Florida; tomatoes from Mexico, and
miscellaneous vegetables and fruits
from other states and from the Pa
cific coast.
BY the absorption of the North Am
erican Fruit Exchange, the Federated
Cooperative organization has acquir-
ed an established national business Of
IL years standing together with the
personnel and complete organization,
and experience Of the executives and
sales staff throughout the country.
This has given the new grower-own-
ed cooperative growing business,
with sales, traffic, finance and ac-
counting departments completely ess
tablished
The Federated method Of sales and
distribution provides the quickest
possible collection and distribution
of proceeds to the grower members.
No small part Of the successful oper-
alton of national service is the ef-
ficient system Of handling shipments,
making collections, safeguarding the
CIculIb, dnu IceulhiA6s luhuo W 1hS
growers. Contract forms, inspection
service, traffic and <arious other de-
tails are all worked out and in COM
plete and smooth running order.
Illustrative Of the work Of this
selling organization is a report just
issued covering the marketing Of g.
500 cars Of grapes for Michigan COOP |
erative growers associations during |
The season just closed.
Sales Of the Michigan crop totalled
more than $2,000,000. Members Of the
associations Jared better
than their homeopathic neighbors,
Tor the $500 cars so4d for a premium
Of 100000 increase above the prices
paid by spectators to non members
prior to and at opening of the season.
The slogan of the Federated Is "Or-
sanize, Standardize, Merchandise,
Advertise"
The National committee OF 81 ap-
pointed by the American Farm Bureau
Federation spent more than year in
! study Of the problem Of marketing
,erishable farm crops on a national
ind international basis. The Feder-
tied Fruit and Vegetable Growers was
hen formed as an outcome of these
nvestigations. The acquisition of the
North American was one Of the first