Show Cooperative Marketing I COOPERATIVE TIVE mar marketing k e r associations assoCiations' h have ave passed from the merely social sentimental I and fraternal period to one of serious per per- The rhe bureau of agricultural eco eco- I of the United States department of I agriculture reports that farm products sold through cooperative organizations in 1923 will viii amount to more than In 1919 the total value of the farm products sold cooperatively was 72 Many of the agricultural colleges of the country now have a complete and exhaustive course in cooperative marketing and government government government govern govern- ment officials are solidly behind this plan of distributing farm products Until recently cooperative cooperative cooperative co co- co- co operative associations associations' took lightly contracts with members and did not hold them ri ri rigidly idly idly to 10 the letter of the agreement Because of this these associations could not function with an any any Y YAt great degree of efficiency At the present present time however are more than loo suits started by various cooperative cooperative co co- operative marketing o associations against members members members mem mem- bers for violating contracts J The he seriousness of this breach of trust has has as been emphasized r recently with considerable distress to the violators vio vio- The Burley Tobacco Growers' Growers Cooperative Cooperative Co Co- operative assoc association of Lexington for in instance instance in- in stance is bringing suits against members who h have ve broken contracts by selling outside of the association Heavy fi fines es have been een pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- in not a ta few cases and two tobacco grow growers s have been convi convicted ted before re Judge Lane in North Carolina for shipping products to Virginia in violation of contracts and were given thirty days in jail as aswell as fines This indicates that these associations mean business and vers gro growers wh who g grow row easy with their agreements will find they have committed com corn milted a serious offense f 4 Three Montana university y students students' robbed a postoffice of showing showing perhaps that it takes a a lot of money to keep boys DOYS in school With one judge after another ruling that a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's home is not his castle and so not secure against searches for liquor a lot of men men seem to be of the opinion that there is really no good reason to stay home Senator Walsh Senator Walsh gives a newspaper reporter credit for u uncovering covering the Teapot dome scandal but nobody offers to take his note for The rhe Teapot dome activities at least prove that Mr Falls Fall's credit was good |