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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1913)
IF I7S CORRECT S ALLAN HAS IT M NOTICE Big Eruption Sale Will Continue for 15 Days Only. Buy NOW. M. 5ALLAN The Leading Clothier In Bank Building IF S ALLAN HAS ITS CORRECT IT, Str. IBALDA Summer Rates between St, Helens and Portland 50 cents one way 75 cents round trip Tickets good any time after April 4th Boatlmves St. Helens 7:55 a. m. Returning leaves Portland 2:30 p. ru. Arrive at St. Helens 4 -45 p. n. C 1. HOOCHKIRK Wood for Sale Good Dry Fir, Cut from Large Green Trees. Will Deliver to St Helens for $3.50 per Cord. To Houlton for $3.00 per Cord. 25c Discount on Ten Cords or More. Hard Wood $4.50 per Cord. Phone Bachelor Flat Line or write me at Warren, Ore. Vm. Skuzie. SYSTEMS OF MARKETING FARM PRODUCTS Systems of marketing farm pro ducts and the demand for them at trade centers are the subjects of a special report tr) congress by the ! secretary of agriculture recently j published. The report was made by I special direction of congress in order j that information might be at hand j concerning the establishment of a 'division of markets in the depart ! ment of agriculture. The secretary ' specifies various items of service common occurrence. Fruits and vegetables are often marketed through the aid of two middlemen, the city commission dealer and a re tail merchant. More than two intermediaries. A series of three middlemen may inclnde first the local buyer of the shipper; second, the commission dealer or the wholesale merchant; and third, the retail merchant. In the sale of fruit by auction, which is common in large cities east of the Mississippi river, the auctioneer is an additional middleman. He may sell for a commission doaler, to whom the consignment may have 4BatMB--4aBV"HB St. Helens Dairy I 1 1 PURE MILK AND CREAM From Healthy Cows delivered to your door every day George konopka PROPRIETOR that could be performed by such an office, with recommendations that ' heen made by a country buyer; and they be adopted if it is created. I purchaser at The report covers 391 pages and is crowded with information with re gard to the subjects treated. BY PRODUCERS TO CONSUMERS. The report treats of the move ment of farm products from the farm to consumer through a great variety of channels. The simplest distribution 13 the direct one of de livery by farmer to consumer and next after this is the delivery by individual farmers or associations of farmers to individual consumers or associations of consumers. In these direct forms of distribution the middleman is eliminated, although of course intermediate services are such an auction mav be a jobber, who in turn sells to a retail merchant Five middle men are thus concerned in such a transaction. Unions raised in Kentucky are sometimes bought by a local mer chant and shipped to Louisville; here they may be put into sacks and con signed to a New York wholesaler or a commission man who in turn sells to a New York retailer. Eggs and poultry frequently pass through the hands of at least four middle men. The marketing of clover seed is an example of a transfer from one farmer to another through a num- Derformed either by producers or by er of middlemen. The first middle- consumers or by both parties INTr RVENTION BY MIDDLEMEN. Among the varieties of middle men concerned in the marketing of man may be an Indiana jobber who consigns to a commission dealer iri Toledo, Ohio; here the seed may be purchased by a merchant and shipped Dangerous Bleeoimqs mmImi telisv YtKXa TaiM Oar Wra-to-nt 811k Elastic Hoalarr roller at on oftan lira. Stocking. Knoo Caps, Aaklata S!f-aiMMfiBal Mftnk pitaattoa WOOD AND. CLARK E CO. 1'ortlaod. Oilfuu For Sale and Want Ads Ada in Thaaa C jlumn Bring Reaulta WHY PAY RENT Buy a lot. Build a home. $10 down $10 a month, then you have it. See St. Helens Improvement Co. T.A. Laws, Mgr. FOR SALE; a set of Elks Ant lers, complete. On display at the Italian Importing Co's. store. See H. W. Cade, St. Helens. 100,000 Fruit trees., Write prices. A. Holaday Scappoo for CHURCHES Meib.-disi Kpi!0wl Clo Sunday School PrfflrhiuB EiWrth League Preaching MM-Wfk r ii-r ThurHav farm products are the traveling ( hucksters who go from farm to farm gathering eggs, butter, poultry. calves and other commodities which they sell to shippers, jobbers or re tail dealers. The country merchant is often the first receiver of such products as eggs, farm-made butter, poultry! wool, hides, cotton and sometimes grain and hay. In the regions where grain is the staple product the tendency has been to displace the country merchant by the grain buyer and the local ele vator man. Farmers commonly sell through commission merchants and to some extent directly to wholesale dealers and also to retail dealers. The farmer who employes a trustworthy commission merchant who will handle his products honestly and honorably will get the current prices for them within the range of the commission merchant's business, but the farmer often finds himself in the hands of a commission merchant who falsely reports that the products were received in damaged condition or that they were of a grade lower than they were in fact, or he reports re?eiv'ng prices lower than tho: actually received by him for the products. Worse than his, it is by n ) means rare that the commission merchant has sold the product ard fried to retarn the net proceed, Sar.iples of transactions in whi h 10 mi I 7 SHI 7'0 oily one middleman intervenes be ; to a wholesale dealer in a distant 1 city, ihe last middleman in this course of distribution is a country storekeeper or a city dealer in agri cultural supplies. MARKETPLACES AND WAREHOUSES. Public market places are estab 1 lished in a number of cities and towns, and in these places con sumers may buy such articles as fruit, vegetables, dairy products, poultry and eggs direct from farm ers as well as from dealers. Another institution which aids the producer to dispose of his crop is the public warehouse. Illustra tions of this are afforded in the mar keting of tobacco in Virginia and North Carolina, wool from the northesn Rocky Mountain states, and to some extent rice in Louisana and Texas. The growers or their representatives, with their produce, meet the buyers at these ware houses. DINERSION I.N TRANSIT. While farm products are in transit by rail, there are certain points at which the consignor may designate a fin il destination. The purpose of this practice is to enable the con signer to find the best market for his goods. This is the plan followed in shipping fruits and vegetables by rail from California to the East and from Southern States to the North. ASSOCIATIVE MARKETING. The secretary of agriculture has m.ich to say concerning associative produi ts, to sell to :i co: -Mer il V numlxr of markets, if not in ninny mar-it s, and to secure the var'o n otltr tononiic gains of assooiiki v jStlilf." j To arry out this Miggestion it m j recom nendeii that it' congress t tatl isles k division of murkeis, a j corps f traveling f eld agent be mriiit. il ed to assist farmers to f .ii ni a; -c i: t ons for 111 irketing I i !r pr.w u t:, ie o" KRi'ir anp vkckt. ' i.k SllTl-Y. j It is also recommended that estimates of the prospective supply of fruits and vegetables, and per haps other products not now repre sented in the quantitative estimates of the department's crop reporting service, be made a short time before harvest, so that the farmer may "have in mind a fairly definite idea of the volume of the crop through out the country in order that he may occupy a place in the market that is fair to the consumer." General market news service is not recommended. If such service were derived from telegraphic re poi ts the expense would be enorm ous. One farmers' marketing asso ciation spends $23,000 a year in telegraphing alone and a fruit growers' organization spends $75,000 for this service. FIELD AGENTS AND CORRESrONDENTS It is proposed that a corps of traveling field agents and a large corps of traveling field agents and a large corps of local agents and cor respondents be established for the following items of service: To help producers organize for associative marketing; to examine and remove local difficulties in the may of such marketing; to help producers to find markets; to report the current de scriptive condition of crops, in ad dition to the work already done by the department's crop reporting service; to estimate the probable production of crops a hort time be fore harvest; to report the beginning and ending of the shipping season; to report the crop movement from producing points through gate- lys" to principal markets. SUBSECTS FOR INVESTIGATION. Among the subjects whose inves tigation is suggested are the storage of farm products either on the farm or elsewhere pending their sale; the business of commission dealers; tne various costs of marketing, properly itemized, and compare with prices of products at the farm and wiih consumers' prices; a description of principal markets and of chief pro ducing regions; and some problems of transportation. Some informa tion with regard to foreign markets, it is advised, might be made useful to producers. It is proposed also to j keeD an elaborate record of nriees 1 1 O' ' 1 fi 11. I. M.I. p ! Xh , re 1- I at- : e I 'reif 'I as Ml, t :e t.u o' 11 to a un i' 1' sir'.1 . : 1 1. I'M I , Il vil M' 'OH ' !' ! is V '1 P 11' i 111 I ! iiii , 4 ... 1 l Ai'i'Ml'I'll ' I propriation be sot aside fr live stock premiums to go to Oregon exhibitors. An appropriation of $10,000 is H.-ked for puri'liainvr livestock for the Oregon experi mental station. This is to be aeon tintiing appropriation. It is recom mended that the premium fund for livestock at the state fair be raised and that an annual appropriation of $iilM)0 be made for the annual dairy show at Portland. It is also thought best to do away with district fairs anil establish a county fair in each county. It is recommended that no state fair be held in 1015, but that this state join with the Panama Pacific exposition to hold the biguest stock show at San Francisco ever known. Oregonians aboard the special Royal Rusarian train that invaded California the past week made many friends for this state in the South. Their route was marked by demon strations of welcome that proved the high regard in which the Heaver state is held and which will mean that Oregon w ill have a very promi nent place in the llMo exposition both at San Francisco and San Diego. Pates have heed fixed for the annual convention of the American Association of Nurserymen in Port land next June 18, I'M and -0. As this is the week following the lo'-e Festival an effort will be made to have the visitors come early in order to attend the (lower fete. It is ex pected that from 400 to .",(Hl eastern members of the association will at tend, ine 1 acitic v.. oast Associa tion of Nurserymen meets here at the same time, convening one day eaWier to transact the business of the organization. Oregon county school superin tendents convened at Salem last week took steps to encourage the country life movement among the school children of tile state. They asked that the state fair be held later in September to give nioie time for preparing sehool exhibits. It was also decided to foster poultry mining and several superintendents will try to get every pupil in their counties to raise not less than thirty chickens or ducks. Columbia County Abstract And Trust Co Attracts, Real Estate, Insurance. Loans, donveyancing St. Helens. Oregon liiUiliiLiJ'AiiUA-IAiiJaitiiiUL UHtLl If l.rtJ.,m si it V3r . ST. HELENS Harness t Shoe Shop 4 M"BNurf,-.,,,rtrY ST. HELENS, ORE. Tins u 5 UBS sat tt s ttt go gam 11 oj 1 jjt uirrini tr S St. Helens School Opens Monday. SeDtember 16th 2 FtEMCMncn WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FO 3 s School Books and School Supplies WE HAVE ALSO SiCURED THE AGENCY FO Grods WE CARRY ON K AN D A LARGE STOCK OF THE Celebrated Nyal Family Remedies '-CHOHa OKS ARE SOLD STRICTLY FOR CASH Start the New Year right opening an account with us. ami ,y prices ! assured of fresh vroeeries. fair of farm products in which prices at treatment and prompt delivery. 2 ; ,: E A. J. DEMING. Dh'uaoisT. ST. HELENS '". Ciit'itigtktiiiiHtgitiiigitgitiiitUMiitiiuiliii : 1'', 'a 1 t'veen prod ice r and cor turner in-! marketing by farmers, Congregational Church cl-de the Cfinmimion n an at a larte ' economic advantages are and the stated in 1 . . . ...fi. rrarket wno receives consignment j detail. A survey of the systems Regular services at the Congre- o:' livestock from farmers and sel of marketing farm products clearly g-ational church Sunday, January 12. ' t packers; the factor to whom tl e' d ; co r what the farmers can best Afominff, 11 o'clock; evening, 7:30, j planter consigns hs rice or cottf n do ti their advantage. They 11 u.st Strangers "will find a cord al wel- and from whom purchases are mare, associate themselves together for we'll do all in our power 1 by millers; the varehmiw rnen wro, the pi rpose of assembling their in vh goers t- come munase the wd" f a Vircir a di id i d contributions of prod'ts, the farm shall be paralleled by wholesale and retail prices. Among the other recommendations are the maintenance of a list of marketing associations and the collection of statistics concerning the business done by them; the investigation of systems of marketing farm products in other countries, with special at tention to those features which it may be assumed might be adopted beneficially in this country. PROPOSAL TO AIL CONSl'MKKS. The Secretary of Agriculture closes its recommendations by mak ing one concerning the participation of consumers in the solution of mar keting problems: "A cheapening of farmers' costs of marketing will naturally result in gain to the pro ducer rather than to the consumer. II the consumer is to gain by changes in the costs of distribu tion, it seems probable that he must do so through cheapening or elimi nating costs at his end of the chain of distribution. The consumers can cheajien the costs of farm products by cooperative buying and by re ducing the expenses of retail and other local distribution. The -,,n. sumers aspect of the problems of ' the distribution of farm products is, conspicuons one at the present1 time, and problems in distribution; that are concerning the consumer ; ramer man tne producer may well io 11 now. inn v, ,,11 t regret il I he .Muekle drocerv Co. I ODCEs M tliit mki.i:n camp ",e A . Me. I Vniiies!av". I. V. Cliirkr, 011-11I II. K. i.A l: A KK. CI. rk. If.ll. 'I..V . ". . t Women 1,1 Woodcraft, Intel tlic- ( oii.l i.ii.l fourth Til -m . ali.-rnonii of , , moii'h nt I Imiiioii, r tf. ms. K!-n Wilc-troiii, 'iimr.lhm Vi.-l,!,r S.M ioos.-, Or.-.; Minnie A. M, .,,. C;.-rk. o!io,il,u l-.ne.itii.tiiriit No. 7;, . o O t. im.-is in the I. (). o. .'. 1 1 ., n He -iroml Hint f.iirlh 1 li.irs.lxy e;ic, nnint'., 'ojournewiu Pati i.-.r.li most "" !y imi'e.l lo unci u l'h", S,im er, thi.-f Pi.tri.ircl. ' ' W 111 .kes'ev. Si-ril... .'0!.f;iA noMF.STHAP N, Pr..iierlioo. of Am. reaii Yeomen, ni. ttii the aecornl and fourth Wed neiday night of ecl month at V.mk ton.Orr. Visiting m. intern welcome. E. S. Minhov, llonorHhln rorrnun C K Lakh, torie-t,ii,r nt. MIZIVuI C':j.,'TKi. NO. . . Meets in Mas. nic I, ill ti, M., , "tili and f mrtt, Saturt-v-o -m l, ,, ,. I l)1-n-f.i. ,. . . 1 1 ki i'f. t (JI.I.INS, v M. re it. OPEN FOR BUSINESS The Italian Importing Co, DF.AI.F.RS IN Cror.rirs, 'tJt t,,l,l, '.v ,nf ',(, l Ct in nil Hi, ii rlmhl .Yrrrssitivs lKH,l,tV III All k'ie !c ,.f . - - .nti.L vimi n I ), . , , , i c !.:. - 'iiuinir j.n i-irhi cjass hip D-miestic Wiiu-s of all Kinds I-ice !t livery to any part .f St. Ilckiis or Hou'.ton U'f ke.aa fully S.li.it a Share of the Patronage Wh dtc oiesaie t '- "" ,r sr. m;u:xs ru iJs nil $ f aiUiUiLliiiiiiiiUilhUi iAiULlJiililiiikiiiK I CbNTRAL GROCERY ( II lin.'it AST 1 1," V,7,nWur I lir i lit ii irsl jilut ' rurln rij, (I I,, V-ouie ojvc i;ic iii loicn lo htnj Ksirttrc a a 1 1 Hi ,, nil ! i i i fall and 1)L- totiviticed for yourself CI-NTKAL (iROCURY I fCY i Y, "ii.vv i I 17,1. (). (). 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