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Show LIST LIVESTOCK I OH MARKET Farmers are asking if the farm bureau will market any livestock this year. All we are wailing for is a line-iip on what we have to sell. We; cannot sell anything until we know if we have it to sell. Farmers should not wait about signing the agreement agree-ment and listing their stock with the local buying and selling com-m com-m i'l ee. The county agent won't be around to pursuade you to sell this year. All farmers should be familiar with farm bureau marketing after the work of past years ami do a little themselves. If anyone finds. aNer he gels his livestock rounded up and ready for I market, thai be will not have as inuiiy as lie s i c n I -u l for ou the ag reement, the committee will be glad to release the missing number, or if any should find that he has more than he expected, that, too, will be alright. The thing the committee wishes is to know in a fairly certain-way certain-way the number of ach kind that can be depended upon, so they can solicit buyers. The deposit made in the form of a check to insuro good faith will never be down on your account if you are as good as your word, but will be returned to you at the end of the deal. For this reason no farmer needs hesitate to make this deposit with his own organization, which is trying try-ing to help him. It is a means of protection against the man who might, at the last moment, sell hit livestock to some dealer and embar-ass embar-ass his fellow farmers and his organization. organ-ization. The farm bureau is your organization organi-zation and you have no desire to beat yourself. This also is true of the farm bureau. bu-reau. By this means, cooperative marketing mar-keting farmers can get more for their products than any other way. if they will stick together. We can guarantee that, no matter what anyone says to tho contrary. |