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VOL. LXVI INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 3, 1911. NO. 22 hknefit op farmers organizations. Editors Indiana Farmer: In your issue of April 29th there was an excellent communication from "E. H.' under the caption of "Organization" which I believe every intelligent farmer should endorse and accept as a Vjflnew proposition that deserves al. Why is this? Lack of organization. That is all. Now getting down to the business Advantages to be Gained Through Cooperation as suggested by E. H., let me quote from a man who is familiar with the shrewdest business tactics in commer- the number. The farmer is saying the fewer of these non-working profit takers along the line, the better, and he ls reducing the number, selling through Established Agencies of His Own Selection taking part of the returns himself, and willing to divide the savings with the importance. A man haa only performed half his duty to himself and family when he produces a crop. Tho other half is to market it to the best advantage. This Is a Day of Cooperation. "This is a day of cooperation." The success attained through organization iiiil ^0 S^^W .*^ffn "■ -£_* ■r* \ : V * ' iX '• -: , >v ^ST-Vs Showing the herd to a visitor; one of the uses of the automobile on the farm. •^option. He says: "Can't we see *We we are drifting? Every busl- "•H in the United States is organized 'or self-protection but the farmer. The Products of every factory in our dominion are governed by a well organized '**' that when sales decrease, or prices '*". they put down the production." In another paragraph he says: "If we rould buy at wholesale, direct from the manufacturer and eliminate the agent, "il'ldleman, jobber and retailer, an im- saving would remain in the t for the poor farmer. This can f««ily be done." To one who has been raised on a »«rm and is yet personally interested lhe farm as a financial investment, * question of organization is a most S "Hal one. It is the only way whereby * farmer can come to his own in a lu»lne»g an(i political way. There is '* much to be said along this line in ^or of the organization movement, *at it is hard to know just where to *«*• and there is no place to quit, as argument seems to be in favor of Why every farmer cannot take to ;■» policy Is beyond the understanding 'he writer. About one-third of the voters of this ' ry are the farmers, yet see what 1™°* DU" they have with good whole le le8islation, both state and nation- cial life, a man who makes commercial business his study and has made a great success, B. F. Yoakum, head of the Frisco System. In his address to the Farmers' Congress and the Live Stock Associations at Lincoln, Neb., recently he made this important statement: "The growth of the organizations of farmera will be the next Important step In the development of the country. We will then have commercialized farming." It is the writer's belief that Mr. Toakum gave the Tamers the very thought that never had come to them before, in that light. It is a suggestion at least that every farmer should take to himself and consider that this business man was talking to him individually. To illustrate what he meant, Mr. Yoakum went on and showed the farmers what really can be done by "commercialized farming." Quoting from him again: "There are now in this country several thousand farmers' organizations which have been created for the purpose of getting greater returns to farmers and to make reductions of aelllng costs of their products in the markets. Too many retail middlemen are to the farmers what the drones are to the bees. The bee said the fewer of these non-workers the better, and he reduced consumers. This movement has made much greater progress in the United Kingdom and continental countries than in the United States, but we are learning rapidly and adopting the methods slowly. The organization of cooperative societies in England commenced in 1844 with 28 members. In 1908, the last statistics we have, the members are given as 2,516,000 and the profits $55,665-,000. They show over 33 per cent advance to the producers without hurting the consumers. In Denmark in 1881, when cooperation was first tPken up, the producers received for butter, eggs, and bacon, $12,000,000. In 1906, the last statistics we have, though cooperative organizations that business had increased to the farmer to $78,000,000. Their cooperative dairies number 162,000, and the egg export societies of Denmark have 22,000 members. This Industry Is bringing them 10 million dollars a year. Denmark Is a low country with an area of 15,000 square miles. Nebraska is five times as large as that country, yet for the past 25 years Denmark's history is unparalleled for prosperity among Its farmers, principally due to the business way In which the producers handle their products. As in older countries, cooperation among our farmers is of the greatest with our timber lands, coal landa, minerals and manufacturing districts, and liy our merchants and organizations of commerce, could not have been realized by individual effort. These industries have their agents for buying, for selling, and have forces working together to make every dollar in profit by saving every dollar in expense. "It would be unreasonable to expect the farmers of the country to advance their interests through individual effort. It can only be done through organization. To illustrate: If a community of farmers owns a million bushels of wheat which is worth 90 cents in the market, and it costs say 12 cents a bushel for elevator charges and transportation, a purchaser must furnish over a million dollars in cash to pay the farmers and hold the wheat for a favorable market to sell. The farmers are the owners of this million bushels of grain, and the cash required by them, if they are organized to bold their grain for a favorable market in which to sell, would only be $120,000. Therefore, they can carry and ship their own grain to market with a small cash requirement, as against the present method where they haul their grain to market with a small cash requirement, as against the present method Continued on page 4.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1911, v. 66, no. 22 (June 3) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6622 |
Date of Original | 1911 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Transcript | VOL. LXVI INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 3, 1911. NO. 22 hknefit op farmers organizations. Editors Indiana Farmer: In your issue of April 29th there was an excellent communication from "E. H.' under the caption of "Organization" which I believe every intelligent farmer should endorse and accept as a Vjflnew proposition that deserves al. Why is this? Lack of organization. That is all. Now getting down to the business Advantages to be Gained Through Cooperation as suggested by E. H., let me quote from a man who is familiar with the shrewdest business tactics in commer- the number. The farmer is saying the fewer of these non-working profit takers along the line, the better, and he ls reducing the number, selling through Established Agencies of His Own Selection taking part of the returns himself, and willing to divide the savings with the importance. A man haa only performed half his duty to himself and family when he produces a crop. Tho other half is to market it to the best advantage. This Is a Day of Cooperation. "This is a day of cooperation." The success attained through organization iiiil ^0 S^^W .*^ffn "■ -£_* ■r* \ : V * ' iX '• -: , >v ^ST-Vs Showing the herd to a visitor; one of the uses of the automobile on the farm. •^option. He says: "Can't we see *We we are drifting? Every busl- "•H in the United States is organized 'or self-protection but the farmer. The Products of every factory in our dominion are governed by a well organized '**' that when sales decrease, or prices '*". they put down the production." In another paragraph he says: "If we rould buy at wholesale, direct from the manufacturer and eliminate the agent, "il'ldleman, jobber and retailer, an im- saving would remain in the t for the poor farmer. This can f««ily be done." To one who has been raised on a »«rm and is yet personally interested lhe farm as a financial investment, * question of organization is a most S "Hal one. It is the only way whereby * farmer can come to his own in a lu»lne»g an(i political way. There is '* much to be said along this line in ^or of the organization movement, *at it is hard to know just where to *«*• and there is no place to quit, as argument seems to be in favor of Why every farmer cannot take to ;■» policy Is beyond the understanding 'he writer. About one-third of the voters of this ' ry are the farmers, yet see what 1™°* DU" they have with good whole le le8islation, both state and nation- cial life, a man who makes commercial business his study and has made a great success, B. F. Yoakum, head of the Frisco System. In his address to the Farmers' Congress and the Live Stock Associations at Lincoln, Neb., recently he made this important statement: "The growth of the organizations of farmera will be the next Important step In the development of the country. We will then have commercialized farming." It is the writer's belief that Mr. Toakum gave the Tamers the very thought that never had come to them before, in that light. It is a suggestion at least that every farmer should take to himself and consider that this business man was talking to him individually. To illustrate what he meant, Mr. Yoakum went on and showed the farmers what really can be done by "commercialized farming." Quoting from him again: "There are now in this country several thousand farmers' organizations which have been created for the purpose of getting greater returns to farmers and to make reductions of aelllng costs of their products in the markets. Too many retail middlemen are to the farmers what the drones are to the bees. The bee said the fewer of these non-workers the better, and he reduced consumers. This movement has made much greater progress in the United Kingdom and continental countries than in the United States, but we are learning rapidly and adopting the methods slowly. The organization of cooperative societies in England commenced in 1844 with 28 members. In 1908, the last statistics we have, the members are given as 2,516,000 and the profits $55,665-,000. They show over 33 per cent advance to the producers without hurting the consumers. In Denmark in 1881, when cooperation was first tPken up, the producers received for butter, eggs, and bacon, $12,000,000. In 1906, the last statistics we have, though cooperative organizations that business had increased to the farmer to $78,000,000. Their cooperative dairies number 162,000, and the egg export societies of Denmark have 22,000 members. This Industry Is bringing them 10 million dollars a year. Denmark Is a low country with an area of 15,000 square miles. Nebraska is five times as large as that country, yet for the past 25 years Denmark's history is unparalleled for prosperity among Its farmers, principally due to the business way In which the producers handle their products. As in older countries, cooperation among our farmers is of the greatest with our timber lands, coal landa, minerals and manufacturing districts, and liy our merchants and organizations of commerce, could not have been realized by individual effort. These industries have their agents for buying, for selling, and have forces working together to make every dollar in profit by saving every dollar in expense. "It would be unreasonable to expect the farmers of the country to advance their interests through individual effort. It can only be done through organization. To illustrate: If a community of farmers owns a million bushels of wheat which is worth 90 cents in the market, and it costs say 12 cents a bushel for elevator charges and transportation, a purchaser must furnish over a million dollars in cash to pay the farmers and hold the wheat for a favorable market to sell. The farmers are the owners of this million bushels of grain, and the cash required by them, if they are organized to bold their grain for a favorable market in which to sell, would only be $120,000. Therefore, they can carry and ship their own grain to market with a small cash requirement, as against the present method where they haul their grain to market with a small cash requirement, as against the present method Continued on page 4. |
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