Evening star., 1926-11-17
.JARD|NE |ND0RSES
MARKETING UNITS
Secretary Tells College Group
Cooperation Is Para
mount Issue.

Formation of large federated COM
modify organizations for the CO.
operative marketing of farm products
Is the most important advanced step
to be taken toward success in agri-
cultural cooperation" Secretary Of
Agriculture Jardine declared today at
the convention of the Association of
Land Grant Colleges in the Willard
Hotel.
Rapid progress is being made toward
this end through the colleges and the
educational work of the Department
of Agriculture, Mr.. Jardine said, with
resultant increase in efficiency of
production and marketing.
Agriculture in the past has suffered
for lack of ability to cope with modern
methods of urban business, but the
widespread movement toward CO.
operative marketing is bringing about
an improvement, the Secretary stated.
Four Important Factors.
The proposed commodity organiza
tions, he explained would apply to
farming the principles Of large-scale
industry THE individual farmer,
under such a system, will belong to
commodity association for each of his
principal crops, usually total OF not
more than two," the association was
told There will be, of course, an
organization for each important COM
modify in his community, but the local
commodity organization will be part
Of the big federated organization for
that commodity. Such organizations
is the Land O. Lakes CreamerieS, Inc;
the American Cranberry Exchange,
the Poultry Producers Of Central Cali
fornia, the Interstate Milk Producers
Association and numerous other com.
modify associations are examples.
This principle needs to be extended.
Particularly in the field of grain crops
should it prove very valuable. Indi-
vidual farmers elevators have little
bargaining power. Federate these,
however, and form big central sales
agency, and you will have an organ1-
zation to reckon with.
I'VE should not neglect the I'M
portant modern applications OF eng1-
neering to agriculture. Much of the eff
cheney Of the American farmer Is due
to the development of labOr-sav1ng
machinery. Modern marketing meth
ods are made possible not only by the
use of motor trucks, but by the high
way development carried on in accord
ance with the best engineering prac-
tice. Drainage and irrigation have
made possible the utilization for crop
production of land which otherwise
would be waste.
Need Cultural Subjects.
"We also need constant attention to
what are commonly termed cultural
subjects-subjects that are designed to
prepare for life rather than simply for
a livelihood. Music, literature, home
decoration and countless other sub
jects that might be mentioned should
be as much the possession Of the boy
or girl, who comes from the country
and expects to return to the country
as sof the city-reared boy or girl.
ION the side of research and investi-
CATION, the outstanding developments
of the past year have been the fine
beginning in home economics re-
search, upon which field three-fourths
of the States have entered under the
Purnell act, and the remarkable ac-
tivity in developing research in agri-
cultural economics.
1--WE must keep constantly in mind
all of us, the three-fold function of
the land grant college-research, resi-
dent instruction and extension. No
one of these stands or can stand alone.
The research worker needs to have
a vision of the practical needs Of the
farmers The teacher Of students on
the campus needs to realize constantly
his indebtedness to the research worker
for the facts which he Is presenting,
and to keep in mind at the same time
that the young men and women whom
he is instructing are the potential
leaders Of American agricultural and
rural life. The extension worker must
not fail to recognize the constant need
of new information and a freshly
trained personnel.
1T is only through constant CO.
operation of these three agencies that
we shall attain the ends for which
land grant education was established
better educated men and women on
the farms and in the rural communi-
ties, a more prosperous agriculture, a
more fruitful and satisfied rural
culture"
Burnett and Mann.
E. A. Burnett of Nebraska, presi-
dent of the association, spoke on The
Responsibility of Land-Grant Institu-
tions in Promoting a Sound and For
ward Looking Agricultural Policy"
stressing the necessity Of establishing
an economic land policy and devoting
close study to such problems as the
distribution Of the tax burden, obtain
ing reliable statistics on world pro-
duction, and research to develop the
industrial use of farm products. The
economic policy of the United States
should have as much regard for the
welfare Of the farmers as for our
manufacturing classes, he declared.
Dean A. r. Mann of New York told
Of recent developments in agricultural
education and research in Europe. In
addition to the general session the
program today provided for numerous
divisional and executive meetings, af
fording opportunity for the practical
d;ucuSCio,, of adpi n iSt ra tive research