| Show Right Marketing o of Farm arm Produce Of Benefit to Producers and Consumers Says Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of Agriculture Prepared by the United e States Department of ot Agriculture The orderly marketing of farm products that Is proving of direct benefit benefit bene bene- fit to both producers and consumers la is being greatly stimulated by the Improved marketing practices extended extend extend- ed by federal market Investigators during the past year the United States Department of Agriculture announces Among the Improvements that have shown the greatest st expansion are the inspection of farm farms products at shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping points use of standard grades Increased use of warehouse facilities under federal supervision operative co-operative marketing and prompt distribution of market news The shipping point Inspection service servIce service ice enables farmers to have their products Inspected 1 at loading points by state Inspectors licensed 1 an and 1 supervised supervised supervised super super- of of or b by the Department ture operative Co-operative arrangements for such service have been ma made e In 25 states providing inspection at than COO leading lending shipping points Inspections Inspections Inspections In In- during the past year ear totaled 1 more than cars of fruits and vegetables Of this number inspections Inspections In Colorado aggregated cars California was next with cars Idaho cars Washington cars and New Jersey 1500 cars Keeps Out Inferior Products The shipping point Inspection service service servIce ice Is exerting a large lurge Influence In keeping Inferior quality products out of the channels of trade In addition to providing shippers with an nn official record that Is recognized In United States courts as ns prima facie evidence of the condition of the products the department says sa s The result Is better better better bet bet- ter use of transportation better distribution distribution dis dis- lower cost of marketing higher net returns to farmers and a higher grade of food to consumers The service Is al also o tending to place marketable products on a shipping point purchase basis Tentative standard grades were prepared pre- pre pared during the year for prunes apricots boxed pears and boxed apples apples ap ap- ples pies and studies were made looking toward town Id I'd the preparation of grades for sweet peppers The total number of fruits and vegetables for tor which grades have hae been prepared was thus brought up to 17 Approximately 85 per cent of the national potato crop Isnow isnow Is Isnow now sold flold on the basis of the federal grades the department sa says s The departments department's departments department's de de- de- de aim Is to prepare grades for all farm products products- so that a common common common com com- mon trade language can cnn be e evolved that will be und understood 1 In all parts of the country Much confusion that has tended to Increase waste and marketing marketing marketing mar mar- costs has resulted from the use of a multitude of terms to describe the various grades and quality of farm products Use for More Warehouses There has been greater use of warehouses warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses for farm products and a larger larg larg- er Increase In the number of warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses coming under federal supervision supervIsion supervision super super- vision under the terms of the United States warehouse act than ever before before before be be- fore the department announces Credit Cred Cred- Credit it for this healthy development that makes for more orderly marketing as ns determined by consumptive needs Is given largely to the bankers of the country who hn have ve Indicated their willIngness willingness willingness will will- to lend money to farmers the loans being secured by warehouse re re- Demands are pouring In on the department for the licensing of warehouses for products such as ns potatoes potatoes potatoes po po- po- po beans and broomcorn and work In that direction Is now being undertaken Approximately farmer cooperative cooperative cooperative op co organizations with a membership membership member member- ship of more than farmers are now actively operating In the United States the department says As a result of the departments department's stud stud- stu studies 1 les ies of operative co principles and practices pra practices tices both In the United 1 States an am ami abroad the t principles of successful operation co-operation are now fairly well understood understood understood un un- un- un and food producers all over the country are applying th them m to their business The department Is regarded as 08 th the leading authority on this subject subject subject sub sub- the Information developed being widely disseminated through h agricultural agricultural agricultural tural extension services count county agents and the press Farmers Keep in Touch Extension of the federal market marlet news service Ice by b telegraph and radio during the year ear now makes It possible possible pos pos- I sible for farmers anywhere to keep keepIn In dally daily touch with general crop and market m conditions More lore than 80 30 radio broadcasting stations dispatch the news over the continent and by b means of ot a n leased telegraph wire system system system tem that stretches across the country countr from rom Boston to San Francisco Into the Southwest and the Atlantic seaboard Important market flashes dl I. I t hn d 1 11 h d a II tom f from Ul are u spa vu c e u i ours y yand and to the leading market centers for subsequent distribution among farmers farm fann ers and other agricultural Interests These marketing services to farmers farmer farmers farm farm- er ers have been rendered more effective by the tIle consolidation of the economic work of the department Into the bureau bureau bureau bu bu- reau of agricultural economics which Includes the former bureau of ot crop estimates farm management and mar The consolidation of the three i bureaus particularly as regards Interrelated Inter related marketing activities huts bus made malle possible an enlarged d service extending extending extend extend- ing over th the broad field of problems from farm organization to the study of retail etall distribution J |
