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Show AGENTS HELP IN MARKETING Various County Representatives Have Done Much to Assist Organization Organiza-tion of Associations. Work of exceptional value to farmers farm-ers has been done by various county agents in connection with the organization organi-zation of live-stock shipping associations associa-tions and live-stock auction sales. The shipping associations have been especially espe-cially successful in Minnesota, . Michigan, Michi-gan, Wisconsin and Oregon, as well as in several stales in the South. The live-stocl auction sales have been developed de-veloped in California on an Australian model which was Introduced by a county agent who had been engaged in agricultural extension work in New South Wales. The value of the stock-marketed stock-marketed through these auction sales In California amounted to $1,700,3:10 and Increased returns to the farmers by 5100.040 over prices which the stock would have hroucht had the auction auc-tion sales not been held. |