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Show BIG BUSINESS IN LOUISIANA Farm Bureau Federation Has Saved Members More Than $75,000 In Three Months. The purchasing department of the Louisiana Farm Bureau federation, through G. A. Foss, purchasing agent, has done business totaling more than $200,000 for the first three months of 1923, and has saved farm bureau members mem-bers In Louisiana more than $75,000. The co-operative purchases made Include In-clude 5,500 tons of acid phosphate, f ' v J -r- -i 1 . G. A. Foss, Purchasing Agent. sold to the farmers at a price of $14.25 a ton f. o. b. New Orleans, against a general market price of $25 a ton ; 2,-500 2,-500 tons of nitrate of soda at an average aver-age of almost $20 a ton ; and 100 tons of nitrate of lime, saving not estimated. esti-mated. Mr. Foss now has a deal on for several sev-eral hundred thousand rice and potato bags for the use of Louisiana commodity com-modity associations, and It is expected that a considerable saving will be made over the general market price. |