Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-13 | Page 8 | Co-Op Marketing and Distribution to be Discussed

CO-OP MARKETING AriD DISTRIBUTION TO BE DISCUSSED Idaho Farm Bureau May Link With National Federation BOISE. Ida.. Feb. 11. Within ths next Stxty days a conference of representatives representa-tives of Idaho agricultural Industries Will be called to work out problem of cooperative marketing and distribution aad to link this program up with the Bational program of the American Farm Bureau federation, according to announcement an-nouncement made here by W. 8 Shearer, president of the Idaho Karm Bureau federation, fed-eration, who haa Just returned from a trip through aeven Idaho countlea. On this trip Mr. Hhearer addreaaed Awdlences of I00 farmers and a gener. as sprinkling of business men and bank re in Jerome. Idaho Katla, Kighy. Kex-btrrg. Kex-btrrg. St. Anthony. Ashton. ITeaton and HeTammon. the meetings being arranged by the county farm bureass of the counties coun-ties concerned. "Everywhere, " eald Mr. Shearer, 'the Kgram of the State and National Farm reau frderationa wae accorded the most enthusiastic reception, and I am confident that within twelve months 2S.-0 2S.-0 representatives - of the productive force, of Idaho will be enrolled as active member of the Farm Bureau federation. federa-tion. KXPLAms wwoetpuwe, , "At these meetings the purposes an plans for the cooperative organisation of to productive forcee of America by the AeSerican Farm Hureau federation were saaslalned. This federation will bear much the same relation to the productive forces and their Induatrtes as the chamber cham-ber of commerce of the United States beara to the commercial forces, end aa the American Federation of Labor bears te labor." . As to the state program. Mr. Shearer add that definite lines of cooperative marketing, on a commodity basis, were being planned. At the proposed conference, confer-ence, he eaid, representatives of the grain, seed, beet growing, wool, dairy, fruit and similar Industries would be railed together, both in general and In separate conferences, to take up the cooperative co-operative marketing and distribution problem. REPORT IS VALUABLE. At Idaho mils, at a meeting of the Itotnry club, Mr. Shearer gave an account ac-count of the foreign trade conference at Chicago December lo and 11 for organisation organ-isation of the foreign trade finance corporation. cor-poration. He gave a similar account at a meeting of business men and farmers , at fit. Anthony, In recounting the work of the American Amer-ican Karm Bureau federation, he presented pre-sented a report of the Indianapolis meet- lng nf the federation, which he attended. having that the national federation proposed pro-posed lo give the farmers a national mouthpiece: that It proposed to see that the hanking system functioned as well for the farmer as It has for the merchant: mer-chant: that It already had saved the farmers $106,600,000 a year In freight charges by taking up the transportation problem: that It sought to cut down the "jpreari" between producer and consumer consum-er in the price of farm products; that It proposed he handling ,of surplus food products by producers rather than by speculators an J that It had many other similar objects In view. Mr. Pbearer whose horns la In Iw1s-ton. Iw1s-ton. wss elected president of the Htate Farm Bureau federation at a recent meeting In Nampa, at which the federation federa-tion wkk renrranljted