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Show EXCHANGES MARKET CABBAGE Co-operative Associations Recommended Recommend-ed at Conference of Growers In Chicago. A resolution recommending that cooperative co-operative marketing associations be set up In the late cabbage growing states was adopted at the national cabbage growers' conference held by the American Farm Bureau federation In Chicago. State co-operatives are to be set up on the commodity basis with grower contracts covering a period of not less than three years. The county or local associations will be federated into state exchanges with proper provisions for grading, pooling, storage and orderly or-derly selling. The resolution further recommends: "that when a sufficient number of state L ) i ..... H, - ".., .1 E. B. Heaton, Co-operative Marketing Staff, American Farm Bureau Federation. cabbage exchanges have been formed thnt they be co-ordinated Into a national na-tional group." A national cabbage growers' advisory advis-ory committee Is being appointed. Members of the committee thus far named are: Walton Teteet, co-operative marketing director, A. F. B. F. ; K. C. Llvermore, New York; Walter McN'allen, Minnesota; John O. Jones, WlscoiiHln; and C. W. Wald, Ohio. IS. B. Heaton, of the A. F. B. F. stuff, will actively promote organl-otlon work. |