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THE OREGON ?TJAILY JOURNAL. 1 PORTLAND; OREGON, VSATURDASEPTEMBERv 23,1820. EFFICIENT MARKETING BETTER FARMING FARM BUREAU OFFICIALS MEET husbandry course. As proprietor of the Ioka farm, near Sllverton, Or., he has won considerable 'credit for himself and his herd of Duroc Jerseys. His boars have been sold to head the herds of many prominent herds in the : stats. Oolden Rod Queen, the first from his herd, heads the Jersey imroc herd at the Oregon Agricultural collegs. , - r8 FARM MARKETING EASTERN OREGON BILL ON BALLOT DECLARED NEEDED By .1. F. Lunger "Cooperative farm marketing" Is tha most widely dicunel topic lit Portland at th- present time. What does, the cooperative movement mean? la It a menace to bunlness? How will it affect me personally? Will It bring prosperity or ruin upon the state? These and many other queatlonH have bepn running through the minds of Portland buulneiis men for many week pant. And the over whelming majority of- thorn have answered and been answered "fio." It will not ruin the utate. It will not adversely affect business. It wilt not be a menace to continuing prosperity. Rather it will bring .un precedented prosperity to the state. It will bring unprecedented pros perity to buRldess. It will benefit whole cotnmurtitie. Vor the firnt time in the history of co operative marketing Portland business men have had an opportunity of thor oughly graxpln? all that the great farm movement of the century means to legiti mate buninesA, both big and little. Port land business men. bankers, farmers and representatives of the OreRon Agricul tural college, recoftnfzlng the value to the producer. bunines man and con sumer of cooperative farm marketing. Jointly drew up the Oreson state mar ket commission act. and It come before the voters as an Initiated bill by the Oregon tate Taxpayers" league In No vember. It Is probably one of the most constructive pieces of legislation of re cent years offered to the people of Ore gon. It ix a recognition nn the part of the business men and bankers of Port land, however belated, that the prosper ity of the entire state depends absolute ly upon the prosperity of the farmers of the state ; that given a prosperous farming community the whole state and every city, tovtn, village and hamlet In the state will be prosperous ; that given a poverty stricken, disheartened and non prof liable farming industry, business in the whole utate reflects the condition of the farmer In like lack of prosperity. , fcNLIQ HTENlNli TALK (ilTKS Portland business men during the last three weeks listened to three great ad- dresMes from national figures in the o- operative movement. Aaron Kaplro. the famous attorney for California farmrrs' association. addressed the Portland t'hamber of I'ommerce on cooperative marketing as practiced In California. To one of the biggest audiences of the year, he conclusively showed Portland busi ness men that their whole Interest lay, not In making as much money as they could out of the farmer, but in helping the Oregon farmer to make as much money as possible out ot his crop: In helping htm market his crop scientifical ly ; In helping him organize business like cooperative marketing associations which would Increase the markets for Oregon farm products and maintain a stable and reasonable level of prices so far as It is humanly possible so to do. At the Portland Ad club luncheon Saplro moved his audience to a dem onstration In favor of cooperative farm marketing such ns had never before been seen In Portland. Over 250 of Port land's biggest business men were con vinced that their interest lay in sup porting the farmers' cooperative move ment. THEORY FOUND SOtWD The second speaker of note ito address a Portland audience was Don Francisco, Advertising manager of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, who showed Portland business men that the orange growers of California, shipping under the mm 2 1, "A t' 71 0 u 9? v -4, W--, : Form bureau representative in recent conference. Upper, left to right Rupert Dibble, Columbia county; T. N. Case, Klamath county; George A. Mansfield, Jackson county; C. B. Banning, Douglas county; P. O. Howell. Polk county; O. R. IVnglitc-ry, Clackamas county. Front row II. A. Ix-wis, Mnltnomah unty; Walter K. Taylor, Benton county; C. K. XUen, Josephine county. All but Dibble are president of their farm bureaus. brand "Sunkist." had. through their co operative organisation, handled success fully over $50,000,000 of oranges in 1919 at reasonable profits to the growers. H showed them that this had brought pros perity to the whole of Southern Cali fornia. Thst the growers, making rea sonable profits, had money to spend in the cities, that whole communities had become prosperous because of the turn over of this $."'0,000,000 through one as spciation alone. And the cooperating farmers of California last year had $300. 000,000 to spend. They spent this in the cities and towns near where their pro ducts were grown. In California, there is a state market commission and a state market director whose duty It is to help farmers organize cooperative marketing associations. "These cooperative associations help the consumer," said Hon Francisco, "be cause they keep the producer produc ing." PnODl'CTION STIMULATED Francisco pointed out that so long as the farmers received a fair prioe for their products, through their cooperative associations, while the .price might be higher than it was formerly. It stimu lated production. He went on to point out that low prices tended to decrease ptyduction and that consumers would Inevitably pay high prices where there was a short crop. It Is incontestable that production at a more or less staple price tends to keep prices at a minimum. As production decrases so do prices In crease. This Is the inevitable law of supply and demand. Cooperative mar keting associations which the state mar ket director of Oregon is to be author ised to foster, by keeping the producer producing, benefit the producer, the busi ness man and the consumer. The bill merits the thoughtful con sideration of every voter in the state. Koseburg District to Show Products Koseburg, Sept. 13. C. O. Garrett of Olendale is now- gathering an exhibit of farm products, fruits, vegetables, grains, grasses and livestock, for the State fair at Salem. The Interest shown is grow ing rapidly from what it was at the be ginning. ,The State fair seemej to be 1 I Biggest Slnnpsga SendNo money OREGON FAIRS Oregon state fair, Salem, Or. A. H. Lea, secretary. September 27 to October 2. Harney county fair, Burns, Or.; Julian Byrd, secretary. September 30 to October 2. Wasco county fair. The Dalles, Or. J. M. Patterson. October 4 to 7. Multnomah county fair, Gresham, Or.- C. D. Minion, manager. Oc tober 4 to 9. Linn county fair, Albany, Or. A. C. Schmidt, secretary. Oct. 4 to 3. Oregon Interstate fair, Prineville, Or. R. L.. Schee, secretary. October 6 to 9. ' Hermiston dairy and hog show, Hermiston, Or. C. M. Jackson. October 8 and 9. Sherman county fair. Moro, Or. C. C. Calkins, secretary. October 11 to 16. Pacific International Livestock exposition. North Portland, Or. O. M. Plummer, general manager. November 13 to 20. WASHINGTON FAIRS Whatcom county fair. Lynden, Wash. C. M. Waples, secretary. September 28 to October 2. Wastern Washington fair, t'uyallup, Wash G. D. Osborne, secre tary. October 5 to 10. Douglas county fair, Waterville, Wash. October 5 to 8. Wahkiakum county fair, Cathlamet, Wash. October 5 to 8. Stevens County Livestock association, Colville, Wash. L. H. Ii8berger. September 29 to October 1. Western Royal livestock show, Spokane, Waah. J. H. T. manager. November 1 V 6. Rath- Smith. GOOD DAIRY FIELD By E. B. Fitts 10. A., C. and C. 8. Dairy SpacUlwir Eastern Oregon Irrigated districts offer splendid opportunities for suc cessful dairying:, the climate is favorable, and an abundance of the right kind of feed Is produced- The dairy cow for maximum produc tion must have a liberal amount of protein. One of the cheapest and best sources Is alfalfa hay. Experienced dairymen everywhere recognize its value and feed large amounts of It even fn places far distant from point of pro duction. This adds expense of handling, baling, freight and commission or selling costs to the cost of hay where tt is grown. Even with these added costs it is still the cheapest feed they can buy, and the handicap does not force them out of the business. Dairying is a manufacturing enter prise with the cow converting raw ma terial hay Into concentrated product milk. The nearer the plant is to the source of materials supply, the greater ( the opportunity for profit. Alfalfa thrives luxuriantly In the irri gated regions, and corn, or sunflowers in the higher belts, does well and pro vides succulence of an ideal nature at silage. Sllverton Farmer Enrolled at O. A. C. A. N. Doerfler. a prominent hog man of the state, has registered this fall at O, A. C. in a special advanced animal out of the question at first, but since H. 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