Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-02-14
CENTRAL COOP
HAS GROWTH
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statement that it is not a stock pro-
motion project.
'tCash benefits to farmer stock
holders i'm the Central Cooperative As
ISOLATION for 1894 amounted to $50
stock dividend and 800 refund on
commissions collected. This amounted
to $123,348.32 for the past Is years
that the Central has been in business
at South st. Paul, patronage dividends
and refunds have amounted to $1,442,-
1885,"
After pointing out the depressing
effects that the practice Of direct
buying has had on hog prices, Mr..
Carnes said, What the thinking pro-
Queer is demanding today is the es-
tablishing of exact equality of con-
ditions between the price-est ablish-
ing markets and the so-called con-
centration points or direct buying
stations. When direct buying sue
ceeds, cooperation receeds. Direct
buying decentralizes; cooperation cen
tralizes. The producer will have
nothing to say about the price of his
commodity unless he has centralized
control of it's SALE"
In regard to the recent government
report on direct buying, released by
the Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
Mr.. Carnes pointed out that the re-
port was exceedingly inconsistent.
in this report the government main
tains that the evils of direct buying
do not exist, but in about the same
breath they prescribe remedy. It
is rather unusual it seems to me, to
prescribe a remedy for an evil that
does not exist.
Dealing in Futures.
j. o. Christensen, superintendent
of the School of Agriculture, Univer-
sity Of Minnesota, spoke to Central
stockholders on Dealing in Futures"
He pointed out that all young farm
people should have the opportunity to
avail themselves of broad agricul-
tural education so that when they
return to their farms they will be
able to do their own thinking and
| choose their own leaders in their farm
organization. Mr.. Christensen brought
out that at the winter session of the
School Of Agriculture, $50 men and
women from Minnesota farms were
| attending classes and preparing them
selves for their future work and life
in their respective communities.
StresSing the need for higher i'm
port duties on fats and oils to pro-
dustry, Prof. Howard j. Gramlich.
chairman of the Department of An
imal Husbandry, University of Ne
braska, gave statistics which pictured
clearly the serious competition that
imports from the Philippines Is hav-
ing on our domestic market for fats
and lard. I'VE are importing duty
free, from the Philippine Islands each
month, enough cocoanut oil and copra
to replace the amount of fat produced
in one million 100 pound steers, fg-
uring 100 pounds of rendered beef
tallOw per steer. Putting this an
other way, we are importing dutyfree
from the Philippines each month
enough cocoanut oil and cOpra to re-
place the amount Of fat produced In
three million 200 pound hogs, produc-
ing 30 pounds of rendered lard per
head.
F. w. Peck, cooperative bank COM
missioner, Farm Credit Administra-
tiOn, Washington, d. c., told how his
branch of the government machinery
was helping to foster the cooperative
movement among farmers. I'VE have
passed through several stages in the
development OF cooperative enter
prises. For some time we were con-
cerned largely with the mechanics
of the marketing machine and paid
particular attention to the cost Of
these operations, believing that i'm
portant savings could be effected.
Real progress has been made in this
direction.
"Then we passed into the fever
stage of organization with promises
of the millennium. Now, we have
passed into another stage in which
1t is being demonstrated that we have
profited by the lessons OF experience.
This stage is the management stage
Of the cooperative movement"