Show AN OBJECT LESSON A trip through the country near any largo large marketing center will if the traveler be an all observant person bring to his attention some facts that it will be well to heed moro more especially will ho he do well to note them carefully if ho he is a farmer one thing that will claim his attention is that in the planting of crops by truck farmers he will observe almost a perfect unanimity in variety throughout a given community cabbages and tomatoes onions and radishes turnips and green corn ile he N will ill find the same variety being grown by all if this same man mail will happen into this same community at the time these crops are being marketed he will see the results of this system he will see the result of standardization he will see products from any number of truck farms assembled in one big shipment all consigned to tho the same market and all of uniform grade and value each man knows exactly what his produce is worth because he knows that it measures up to a given standard had these truckers mixed their products that is had every man mail planted the variety of any given crop that most appealed to him this facility in marketing could not have been attained here is food for thought for the regular farmer other than the trucker the markets of the world have nicely adjusted dj standards in all commodities they handle A ship ment of 0 corn for instance need not bo be of any particular variety but it MUST bo be all 11 of ONE variety if the shipper bould get the best price now let us carry the lesson a step further all shippers know that it I 1 is s easier to get the top price on oil a shipment of a number of cars of any commodity than on a few hundred bushels hence it stands to re reason son that the more of a given grade of any commodity a community can turn out the more readily it is marketed and the better price it brings farmers would do well to not only establish farm standards but neighborhood standards as well 0 organize agan your productive plans with a view to systematic and profitable market iny ing got get together a ayd d decide on tho most profitable crops the community is adapted to and then as to tho the variety of each when such an agreement has been reached much of the difficulty in marketing will have been overcome |