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]emmeii*m&f!2im!m#mit: PAGB TWO ^i** W%, Radical Departure Made in Interest of Small Farmer Poultry Show is Now Planned. CREDIT SYSTEM WILL NOT COST A CENT Grain Growers Affairs Snarled New President Asks Members To Be Patient. products, where producers at several shipping points combine to obtain car lot rates, have been announced by A. J. McGuire, general manager of the Minnesota Co-operative Creameries association. What is known as "stop" charges have been lowered 65 per cent. The reduction was ordered at a hearing in Chicago last week, which was attended by Mr. McGuire. When the Creameries association began com bining part-car shipments for move ment east, the rate for stopping at a station, without taking the car from the train was $7. A request for a reduction cut the "stop" charge to $6.30, effective July 1. The associa tion considered even this rate too high and a renewal of the protest lowered the charge to $2.50 The new rate, which applies to all concentration shipments, becomes effective October 1, 1922. Voted County Agent Funds. In 61 out of 76 counties where coun ty agents were working last year, commissioners already this year have voted appropriations to continue the work. In three counties, favorable ac tion will be taken this week. Only five counties failed to back up the county agent and farm bureau work with funds. While failure to appropriate in these instances has been a handicap, in most cases farmers are so de termined that farm bureau work shall be continued that arangements have been made to cover the cost by in creasing the membership and increas ing the bureau's income. Grade Cows at Dairy Exhibit. A grade cow exhibit will be an outstanding feature of the National Dairy Show, to be held on the Minne sota State Fair grounds, October 7 to 14. The decision to admit to entry an animal just outside the aristocratic circle breaks a precedent as old as the dairy show business in this country. Heretofore, blue blood lines always have been a first requirement for en try. "We are going to admit grades," says W. E. Skinner, in charge of the arrangements for the show, "because we realize that good grades play an important part in inducing farmers to keep better cows. That being true, there is no reason why grades should not be a part of our Dairy show, for the first object of the undertaking is to carry on the fight to eliminate the scrub-animals that can not pay for their salt." It is announced that a straight 50- cent adult admission will be main tained and that all railroads have granted a round-trip rate of fare and a third from all points in the north west. Initial steps for an international poultry show, to include egg and dressed bird exhibits, were taken at a representative meeting of poultry men. If the plan matures, the objec tive will be to hold one of the largest poultry shows ever undertaken. Credits System Self-Supporting. State farm loan machinery to be authorized by the legislature after Amendment No. 1 (rural credits) is adopted on November 7, will be oper ated without a cent expense to tax payers, according to J. F. Reed, chair man of the farmers' committee that is urging favorable action on the amendment. "While it would be presumptive, as well as unwise, to contemplate the de tails of legislative action, there are certain fundamental features that are sure to be included," says Mr. Reed. *'One of the most important of these is that taxpayers shall not pay a cent of expense incident to operating the system. In loaning money to farmers, the interest rate charged will be just CREAMERIES OBTAIN ANOTHER REDUCTION IN FREIGHT RATES (Farm Bureau News Service.) Freight rate concessions that will mean material savings to shippers of butter, wool, potatoes and other farm the term expires, the loan is paid au *MJ5 enough higher than that paid on bonds tolake care of necessary overhead ex pense. One-half percent should be sufficient. "Another feature that surely will be recognized is an amortization plan for repayment that is, payments will be extended over a long period30 to 35 years. Each installment will be for the same amount, to be met annually or semi-annually. Of each such pay ment a part will go to meet interest charges then due and the remainder will apply on the principal. The older the loan, therefore, the greater will be the payment on principal, so when tomatically." Grain Growers' Affairs Snarled. Farmers who have signed U. S. Grain Grower contracts, as well as creditors, must exercise patience while the new management endeavors to place the company on a sound financial basis, says a statement issued by E. H. Cunningham, new president. "As the new management of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., comes into control," the statement says, "it has no Utopian scheme to propose. We recognize certain economic laws which can not be flouted, without inviting disaster.. "We plan to create a producers' sell ing agency, which shall function in strict accordance with sound business methods and procedure. We do not expect to establish any spectacular re forms. Our members must exercise patience. "The U. S. Grain Growers is in a de plorable condition, financially. It has a net deficit of $285,267.27. While that is significant enough to trained finan ciers, it gives the general public no conception of the financial entangle ments and complications that will have to be ironed out before we can hope to attempt actual grain marketing operations. "We have no illusions concerning the outlook. We understand perfectly the size of the task confronting the new management. We are making no optomistic promises that may prove impossible of fulfillment. "Our immediate and most urgent concern is with the creditors. Prac tically everything depends upon the attitude they assume toward the new organization. Most of them are dis posed to be lienient, but not all. Just what the future may develop, no man can say. At the proper time, after we have gathered up the loose ends, we shall make a frank statement." Bureau Directors to Meet. County directors in the Minnesota Farm Bureau federation will meet in business session on Farm Bureau day at the Minnesota State fair, Septem ber 7. Call for the meeting was sent this week by J. F. Reed, president. Methods for using Farm Bureau ma chinery to obtain a solid vote for the rural credits amendment will be among the propositions to be con sidered. Chester H. Gray of Missouri, a pio neer Farm Bureau leader, will dis cuss with directors ways and means of obtaining favorable action by con gress on the Muscle Shoals project. J. W. Coverdale, national secretary, and F. W. Peck, director of extension, Minnesota College of Agriculture, will speak before a Farm bureau rally, to be held in the Hippodrome, at 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. "From School to Position." ST. CLOUD BUSINESS COLLEGE. Fall term opens soon. Enroll now. Learn bookkeeping, shorthand, type priting, banking, civil service, also learn how to operate the bank posting machine, adding machine, multigraph, mimeograph, dictaphone, etc. Get ready for a good position. Let us tell you how to save from $40 to $100 on your course. Tell us your plans. Send for free catalogue. 35- Notice. The Farmers' Shipping association will ship livestock on August 28. Please list your stock as soon as pos sible. Shipping rates as follows: Veal, per cwt 70 cents. Cattle, per cwt 48 cents. Hogs, per cwt 51 cents. Farmers' Co-operative Co., Max Gamradt, Manager. Phone 175, or residence 144. 9tfc FarmersCashMarket For Eggs, Poultry, Veal, Hides and Furs in season. We also buy Wool. Notice: Open Saturday nights until 9 o'clock till further notice. Townsend Produce Co. Telephone No. 322 PRINCETON, MINN. i J$& ^%#t^SKf BETTER GRADE BUTTER_NEEDED State Dairy Department Wants All Creamerymen to Make a Still Greater Showing. $66,000,000 REALIZED FROM SALES IN 1921 Average Butter Fat Handled by Min- nesota Creameries Amounts to 150,000 Pounds. The Dairy and Food department, working in conjunction with the Uni versity of Minnesota, dairy division, in a study of the variation of com position of creamery butter made in our state, as evidenced by analysis of samples of the butter entered in the May scoring contest, has secured some very valuable information which we wish to bring to the attention of creamery men and buttermakers. When you realize that Minnesota creameries manufactured approxi mately 17Q,000,000 pounds of butter in the year 1921, over 80 per cent of which was butterfat, the returns for which aggregate nearly $66,000,000, one readily appreciates the necessity of maximum efficiency in the opera tion of our creamery properties. In other words, such methods ought to be continually employed as will bring about the incorporation of proper per centages of other ingredients that go to make normal butter, such as salt, moisture, etc., in order that no un necessary amounts of butterfat shall be disposed of without receiving due return therefor. The standard composition of butter, definitely determined by law and by U. S. treasury regulation, requires, as is generally known, less than 16 per cent of water and not less than 80 per cent of fat, leaving the salt con tent to the skill of the maker or de mand of the trade, or both. Analysis of samples taken from the entires in the May scoring contest dis closes the following averages: Fat, 82 per cent water, 14.7 per cent salt, 1.9 per cent curd, 7 per cent. It will be noted that the average per centage of fat is approximately 2 per cent more than at all necessary, and is unfair to the producer. In other words, if these samples are represen tative of the average of the output of the several creameries from which these samples were received, we are ,forced to the conclusion that we are giving the consumer about 2 per cent of the butterfat handled by Minnesota creameries, an annual loss to our creamery patrons of considerably more than $1,000,000, an enormous sacrifice to inefficiency that is neither fair nor necessary, and which can be largely eliminated by simply employ ing available methods of manufacture. Testing for moisture, fat and salt be- TBB PMNCFTON UNION: THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1922. fore packing the butter ought not to be the occasional practice, it should be unfailingly regular, and at all our creameries. We know that careless and indif ferent methods are not the rule in Minnesota creameries, and that there are scores of buttermakers who know just what they are doing every day. Unfortunately, however, there are some who do not, and these are the boys that need the help. The average volume of fat handled by a Minnesota co-operative creamery yearly is some thing like 150,000 pounds, and if our creamery is one of the average ones as to amount handled as well as to losses sustained through inefficient operation, it will be a simple matter for you to figure out just about what your contribution to inefficiency has been in the past. We feel that nearly all creamery operators really want to render a maximum of service to their employ ers, and to these as well as to those whom they are serving, we wish to say that the dairy department has an efficient field force the service of which is at your call. If your cream ery is numbered among those not se curing the most profitable results, the department wants to co-operate with you, in bringing about substantial im provement. Call on them. "Let's do still better," says Chris Heen, state dairy and food commissioner. LATEST CROP REPORT. Bumper Production Indicated by Re cent Government Figures. Bumper crop production in general this year, resulting in highly favorable growing conditions during July, was indicated by the government's August crop report just issued. A 3,000,000,000 bushel corn crop, for the fourth time in the history of farm ing in the United States, was fore cast. 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