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Show COOPERATIVE WORK OF FARMERS TOLD IN GOVERNMENT PAPER What farmers are doing with government gov-ernment assistance to set up cooperative cooper-ative machinery, owned and controlled by themselves, to market in their interest in-terest the crops they produce, is described des-cribed in a bulletin issued recently by the Federal Farm Board. This new publication, Bulletin No. 3, entitled "Farmers Build Their Marketing Mar-keting Machinery," explains the national na-tional program of commodity cooper-alive cooper-alive marketing being developed under the Agricultural Marketing Act; gives detailed information of the . progress made to December 1, 1930, and tells how the individual farmer may participate in the program and what benefits will come to him from such participation. Maps and charts ' are used to show how the various ' commodity cooperatives operate and the territory, they serve. The bulletin emphasizes that the marketing activities of cooperative associations handling a particular commodity are being centralized in a single cooperative sales agency. The territory covered by the central agency depends upon the commodity ' to be marketed, and may be local, regional re-gional or national in scope. All are built ffom the local association up and not from the top, or central agency, down. The services of all cooperatives co-operatives receiving financial assistance assist-ance from the Board are open to all farmers on an equitable basis. Once a central cooperative sales agency is recognized, the Board has established the policy of extending aid through the central rather than dealing with ( the individual associations handling that particular commodity. The bulletin is being widely circulated circu-lated through educational agencies such as the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agri-culture, agricultural colleges, experiment experi-ment stations, extension workers, vocational vo-cational agricultural schools, cooperatives, cooper-atives, general farm organizations and state departments of agriculture. Copies may be obtained free by writing writ-ing to the Director of Information, Federal Farm Board, Washington, D. C. |