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
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St. Helens Dairy I
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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ni. ttii the aecornl and fourth Wed
neiday night of ecl month at V.mk
ton.Orr. Visiting m. intern welcome.
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OPEN FOR BUSINESS
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POWLIi. & HARRIS, Prop..
t'K.ll.KKH IN
I'ivsh ami Cured Meat?
Poultry, Kggs and Dutter
YOUR PATRONAGE SOUCITEO
CORRECT WEIGHTS
"' Pay HiKh.l Ca.h Prlc. for Et,
Pork and V.al
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iw bhiiw in zaee, i
feet on njrht sirie white; mare colt
small white cjwt in forehea.J. I,'oth
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