White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-10-11
FIRST NEED
SAYS FARM BOARD

Initial steps have been taken to
corelate the work of the Federal
Farm Board, Federal and State ex-
tension forces, and land grant col
leges and universities in national
educational movement in agricultural
cooperative marketing. Full support
of these agencies was pledged IN
meeting held in the Boards WASH
ington office recently.
The meeting was attended by the
Executive Committee of the Associa-
ton of Land Grant Colleges and
Universities, the Committee on Elk.
tension Organization and Policy OF
the association, and federal extension
workers. 1t was preliminary to the
annual conference of the land grant
institution, which is to be held at the
Stevens Hotel, Chicago, November
IL to IA, inclusive. Several MEM
bers Of the Federal Farm Board will
attend the Chicago meeting, where
an effort will be made to develop an
effective educational plan that will
farniliarize farmers and their market
ing agency officials with the COM
modify marketing system that is to
be put into operation.
To avoid duplication OF existing
machinery, the Board officials point
ed out at the meeting that they were
seeking the support of the federal
department of agriculture, the forty
nine agricultural colleges, including
the one in the Hawaiian Islands, and
the fifty-seven hundred extensions
agents in carrying the new program
Of selling farm products into the
farming areas Of America
The fullest cooperation of the col
lleges and the universities was pledged
by DR.. Arson Marston dean OF en-
| gineering, Iowa State College and
President of the Association of Land
Grant Colleges and Universities, and
DR.. r. A. Pearson, President of the
University of Maryland and chair
man of the associations executive
committee.
! nr. Pearson said that the colleges
and universities could support >the
educational movement in three ways:
I First, by training men IN the colleges
of agriculture in sound cooperative
marketing leadership. Second, through
the college extension army OF county
agents the proper information can
be carried to the farmers to aid them
in organizing new associations and
improving old ones SO that their pro-
ram of marketing will fit into the
national commodity selling plan.
Third, by using experiment station
experts to make studies in marketing
lust as has been done in the field OF
I production.
4 Or. C. w. Warburton, director OF
\ extension work Of the department of
agriculture, believes that the extern
sion forces will be the biggest factor
in putting into effect the educational
program. He pointed out at the meet
ing that the state extension DIVISION
needed additional specialists in mar
keting to strengthen the hands OF
county extension agents by grounding
them in principles and practices OF
cooperative marketing.
u A. I. Meyer, state director of ex-
tension, Missouri College of Agricul-
lure, and chairman of the committee
on Extension Organization and Poll
cy emphasized the reed of getting
} competing cooperatives together
With the proper encouragement coun-
ty agents may help eliminate this
competition, Mr.. Meyer believes.
Dean Frederick B. Mumford of the
: Missouri College Of Agriculture, sale
that one of the greatest needs Of the
! colleges is national agricultural
policy to guide them in their efforts
; to aid farmers through cooperative
! marketing. If this national agricul
Z, tural policy were established the prob
lem would be tremendously simplified
When the colleges are united on tn
! program of instruction in cooperative
! marketing the farmers will get be
. hind it. The competition among far
) mers themselves often prevents TIN
, colleges from getting behind the co
operatives, according to Dean Mum
u ford
J. The college and extension met
e were told of the Federal Farm
: Boards efforts in beginning the de
: velopment Of national cooperative
= marketing policy.