Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-15
Big Attendance
At Annual Meet
OF Central Coop
Problems of the Livestock
Industry are Discussed by
Specialists.

No less than 500 livestock feeders
and stockmen of practically every
area in the five Northwest states con-
vened at the Lowry hotel in st. Paul
February Is and IA, to talk over their
livestock marketing problems and dis
cuss marketing policies of the future.
This great gathering of farmers were
delegates to the 10Th annual stock
holders meeting of the Central Co
Operative Association, farmer-oWned
livestock sales agency, with head
quarters at South ST. Paul and a
branch office at West Fargo, N. D.
c. B. Crandall, president of the
Central, and a veteran livestock feed
er and cooperative leader in this sec
ton, opened the meeting Tuesday
morning, giving full credit for the
success of the Central Cooperative
Association to the integrity, sound
business policies, good fellowship and
determination of the strong member
ship, which dominates every prin-
cipal livestock area of the Northwest.
"A successful cooperative organiza-
ton first must be soundly conceived
and efficiently operated" stated MIR.
Crandall. There must be needful
service rendered to its members, and
it must be efficiently financed and
managed. want to congratulate the
strong membership in the country,
for the present enviable success OF
the organization at South st. Paul
is due to their wisdom, determine
ton and loyalty. This has provided
the organization with the volume OF
business so necessary to the success
of a cooperative organization"
Against Trade Agreement.
In dealing with some of the prob
lens which confront the livestock
industry at the present time, Mr..
Crandall strenuously opposed the
Federal Trade Agreement Act, which
creates a flexible tariff at the option
of the President and Secretary of
State. 1.-THE present function of this
Trade Agreement Act invites foreign
competition through lower tariff
he said. This has imposed hard
ship upon American agriculture and
is not consistent with the intention
of Congress. No farm commodity in
this country is bringing parity prices,
yet this is the objective sought by
the AAA program. The plans are in
conflict with each other"
In talking about the agricultural
conditions in relation to industry,
Mr. Crandall had this to say, "Polit-
ical leadership of this country should
formulate a program which will re-
lieve agriculture of the need of sub
sidy, price fixing and government
domination. Put agriculture on an
equal basis with industry and labor
and return to a policy that will bal
ance the national budget by reducing
expenditures, and our farms will be-
come profitable institutions and again
prosperity will prevail"
Farm Bureau Secretary Speaks.
Following Mr. Crandall's address
was talk given by j. S. Jones, secre-
tary and treasurer of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation, who gave
personal observations of European
agricultural conditions, which he re-
ceived during a trip to that part of
the world last summer. Said Mr..
Jones, For several years we have
read and heard that American agri-
culture has lost its foreign markets.
From interviews and observations,
that viewpoint was confirmed when l
saw the evidence over there of the
adoption and use of policy of self
sufficiency on the part of the coun-
tries in the production of the neces-
sites of life. In England, l found
agricultural foundations set up by
private interests. One of these, con-
sisting of 1900 acres, demonstrated
to the English farmers that they could
produce their own pork, the equal of
that which they had formerly i'm
ported from America"
The program for Tuesday afternoon
included an interesting talk on "Agri-
culture and the Business Outlook"
by Phil S. Hanna, editor and bust
ness columnist of the Chicago Journal
of Commerce. In his talk he placed
emphasis on the fact that big in
dustry more than ever realized the
importance of farm production on a
profitable basis to the producer
Grass would grow in the streets of
our cities all over the country, if it
were not for agriculture"
Harry E. Reed, assistant chief,
Agricultural Marketing Service, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, D. c., talked to the group
on livestock marketing problems, and
the Packers and Stockyards Admin
istration Act.
Other Speakers.
L. B. Mann, senior Agricultural
Economist of the Farm Credit Ad-