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Show I FARMER8 BRING THE I PODUCER AND CON8UMER I CL08ER TOQETHF.R B F, w. Thorpo, a mombor of "ie staff of Farm and Flrcsldo, pub- 'shes m tho October Issue of that . ubllcatlon, nn artlclo entitled "As. Boclated Maine Farmers," Ho says that In Janunry, 1DI2, tho organUh- "n? of cooperative associations of farmers was begun under tho dlrof-tlcn dlrof-tlcn of tho sttte .department of agriculture. agri-culture. Dccauso the stato was cc h'nd tho movement tho farmers hod confldenco that the work would not bo fo-saken. Tho members ot the association Include nono but Oranga members In good standing. As to Iho results of the movement Mr Thorpo prints tho following facta, which ho says wcro furnished him by Mr. C. E. Embreo, general manager man-ager of tho Farmers Union of Maine: "About two hundred cars of potatoes pota-toes (135,000 bushels) wero moved by the Union, making a saving of from fifteen to twenty-five dollars per car to tho growers. In purchase of fertilizers fertil-izers a saving of 2 per ton has been realized by purchasing through cooperative co-operative chnnnels. This realized to the farmers of Maine a saving of 1260,000 All farmers buying fertlllz-er fertlllz-er profited In like degreo on account of the fact that tho fertilizer companies compan-ies met tho reduction compelled by the Union. "Tho associated farmers nro saving sav-ing $1 per barrel In purchase of flour bought through tho Union." |