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Suggestions for National Marketing Program as Basis for United Action Eleven Planks Considered Fundamental to Well Rounded Program —All Agencies Engaged in Improvement of Marketing Methods Must Travel Toward Same Goal—Undue Emphasis Must Not Be Placed On Any Single Factor By George Livingston, Chief, U. S. Bureau of Markets (Continued from last week.) 6. Cooperative marketing of farm products. —Farmers' cooperative mar keting organizations are a permanent economic institution and are destined to bave a far-reaching effect upon the farmer and the general public. They enable the farmer to participate in the profits of distribution and at the same time open up a more direct road from producer to consumer. But develop ment in this direction must be based on the safe foundation of economic laws. Plans must be sound and work able. It is easy to draw up an ideal cooperative marketing plan on paper It is quite a different matter to put it into successful operation. Many co operative organisations whose opera tions begin auspiciously go on the rocks with discouraging promptness. Success in cooperative marketing de pends quite as much upon capable management and competent leader ship as upon the plan of organization. Many believe the protest against legis lation legalizing cooperative market ing organizations is a measure of the potential possibilities of cooperation in the marketing program. Marketing Costs Must Be Studied 7. Development of cost of market ing information. —Information on the cost of marketing and studies of mar keting methods must furnish a basis for public information and education as well as point the way to improve ment in present practices. The con sumer wants to know what part of his dollar reaches the producer, and he Is entitled to this knowledge. Meanwhile the farmer is Increasingly anxious to know what becomes of that part of the consumer's dollar that he never sees, and he Is entitled to the knowledge. In fact, an accurate knowledge of the costs of marketing by the various methods, and the costs of the different steps in each method, must constitute one of the basic planks in the market ing program. We must know what ia a fair price for each step or service in the various processes and we must be able to compare intelligently and impartially the efficiency of the dif ferent methods. 8. Agricultural tariff.—An agricuK tural tariff policy is dependent upon the general tariff policy of the Nation with respect to other industries. Agri culture must be placed upon the same basis with other industries in our tar iff laws. If Industry is protected by tariff, agriculture must be accorded the same protection. 9. Development of a financial pol icy.—A definite agricultural financial policy, however, is essential to a mar keting program. The financial re sources of the farm must be mobilized and long and short term credits pro vided. Development of warehouse fa cilities for farmers must be a part o this policy. The most promising plan is the development of a warehousing system which will provide a ware house receipt readily acceptable a: collateral for loans, both in local banks and in large money centers. The Unit ed States warehouse Ace, now in oper ation, provides the basis for a bonded warehouse system. The farmer, in order to place his business on at) equal basis with other businesses, must not be forced to liquidate in order to ob tain money. Like any other business man be must be able to use his re sources freely as collateral. 10. Transportation. — Agricultural development must be given adequate and thorough consideration in the formation ot future transportation policies. By transportation in this con nection Is meant transportation in its broadest sense, a well-devised, sound plan that shall coordinate highway and water transportation, as tar as possible, with existing rail facilities. By building adequate highways to meet branch railway lines and reach water routes as feeders, many com munities will be given transportation facilities that no single railroad could furnish under existing conditions, and for which the highway alone would be insufficient. The building of many Buch highways in the more densely populated East has made it possible to pull up branch rail lines which, un der charter provisions, must be operat ed but. by reason of the highway com petition, are unprofitable to operate. The rails and locomotives can be used elsewhere to the advantage of the whole country. Coordination of Transportation Transportation by tne rivers of this country can and should be coordinated with the railraods, to the advantage of both, and certainly 10 the advantage of the thousands of farming commun ities along our rivers with elimination of that cutthroat competition that has in the past been harmful to each, but more harmful to the communities serv ed than to anyone else. Such transpor tation can not be of great value for the perishable products of our farms In most cases, but It can be of immense advantage in the handling of nonper lshable products. It. Regulation of potential monopo lies.—Finally, potential monopolies of all kinds producing, handling, or man ufacturing farm products or farm sup plies should be subject to reasonable Federal or State regulation and super- MAYFLOWER RELIC FOR PACIFIC HIGHWAY An interesting ceremony recentl} took place at Jordans, Buckingham shire, England, when the American Society of Friends received a piece ot the timber from the ship, Mayflower. The relic is to be incorporated in the Peace Portal erected on the Pacific Highway at Blame, Wash. Member? of the party who took part in the cere mony were, Samuel Hill, Honorary Life President, Washington State Good Roads Association, Baron Mon cheur, Belgian Ambassador to Eng land, and A. Cotterell, of the English Society of Friends. MAJOR P. EDWARDS CANDIDATE AGAIN State's Only Representative on National Legion Govern ing Board "When Paul Edwards slams his fist on bis desk and exclaims in the force ful terms which he occasionally uses, that' We'll do it!' I sit back with the perfect assurance that the thing, whatever it may be, will be done," de clared an old friend ot Maj. Paul Ed wards, executive officer of the Wash ington National Guard recently. He Major Paul Edwards was paying a compliment to the force ful personality of this aggressive of ficer through whose persistence and determination a large measure of the success ot the big task of reorganiz ing the state military forces has been due. In addition to his National Guard work which has kept him at his desk often late into the night, he has held one of the most influential American Legion posts in the state. He is na tional executive committeeman of the American Legion for the state of Washington, and as such is the stateV only representative on the national Legion governing body. Though the public has heard little of his work he has been laboring constantly for the welfare of the ex-service man through out the state. The success Major Edwards har made of this important though incon spicuous post has induced his friend.- to urge him to shoulder the burdens of the position for another year, and hat expressed his willingness to be a can didate for reelection at the state con vention in Hoquiam, July 14, 15, 16. A. C. Sweet, cow tester for tlu Snowqualmie Valley association re ports that 295 cows were tested tor thirteen dairymen. These averaged 1129 pounds of milk and 41.2 pound fat. One hundred and forty-nine cow: produced forty pounds fat or more. vision in order to insure a square dea to both buyer and seller. National standards for farm pro ductss Government inspection of farm products, development ot a completi and authentic market-reporting serv ice, development of foreign markets for surpluses, conservation of farm products during marketing, coopera tive marketing of farm products, de velopment of cost of marketing in formation, relation of agricultural tar iff to general tariff, development of r financial policy, development of trans portation policies in direct relation to agriculture, and regulation of poten tial monopolies—these it seems to mc are the fundamental (factors which un derlie the marketing program. The problem is as old as agriculture itself. Progress toward its solution can be achieved only by the recognition and application of basic principles. It wil! be made the more rapidly if the many private and public agencies of the United States which are now interest ed In marketing unite on a program which considers and Includes these es sentials. MARKETS VARY WITH SEASON Timothy and Alfalfa Hay Are Down $4.00 Per Ton MEATS DECLINE SOME Recent Rains Insure Good Crops Throughout Inland Empire From the south as far as Walla Walla and from all other parts of the Inland Empire unusually heavy rains for this time of the year during the past week have practically insured spring crops very heavy in most districts and fair in others. Winter wheat is virtually made in all parts of eastern Washington now, harvest ing to begin by July IS toward the west. Spring wheat in the Walla Walla section will be only fair, hopes of cut ting at all having been abandoned prior to the recent rains, but in most other parts a good crop is assured. Hay Is Down With the oncoming of the hay harv est, timothy and alfalfa have both de clined $4 per ton. Mixed hay is re ported off the market. The cattle market the last week has been in an unsteady condition, but next week is expected to see a more substantial demand and the light runs anticipated will probably bring good money. The sheep market has declined slightly, though a steady demand con tinues. Grain Quotations Ranges of wheat quotations during the week were as follows: Inland Empire cash quotations—at Walla Walla, 9Sc; at Pomeroy, 90c. Livestock Quotations Following are the closing livestock quotations of last week at the Spokane Union stockyards: Cattle—Prime steers, $6.00® 7.00; good to choice steers, $5.00® 6.00; me dium to good steers, $4.50®5.00; fair to medium steers, $4.00® 4.50; com mon to fair steers, $3.50® 4.00; choice cows and heifers, $5.50®6.00; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.50® 5.50; medium to good cows and heifers. $4 ©5.00; fair to medium cows and heif ers. $3.00@3.50; canners, $2.25®3.00; bulls, $2.50® 4.25; light veal calves, $8 ©9; heavy veal calves, $4.00®8.00; stockers and feeders, $4.00® 5.50. HoQ3—Prime mixed, $8.00@9.25; medium, 8.50@9.00; heavies, $7.00® 8.50; fat pigs, $7.00®8.00; stockers and feeders, $5.00@9.00. Sheep—Prime lambs, $6.00@6.50; fair to medium, $5.50@6.00; yearlings, $3.50@4.00; wethers, $2.50© 3.50; mut ton ewes, $1.00@3.25. Produce Following are produce prices quoted to growers at Spokane: Hogs and Yeal —Country dressed hogs, 125 to 175 lbs., 14®15c lb; fancy veal, 90 to 125 lbs., 17®18c lb. Live Poultry —Hens, fat and over 4 lbs, 19c lb; hens, fat, 2 to 4 lbs, 17c; broilers 1% lbs. and over, 25c lb.; springers, 20c lb; if staggy, 17c lb.; young roosters, 17c lb; old roosters, 8c lb; ducks, young, 25c lb; geese 18® 21c lb; Belgian hares, 10c lb. Dressed Poultry—Hens, plump and fresh, 22c lb.; young toms and hen turseys, 30® 35c lb; fat geese, 21c lb; fat ducks, 30c lb. Ranch Butter —15c lb. Butterfat—3oc lb. Eggs —Good fresh ranch eggs, $7.50 @7.75. Hides —No. 1 green cows and steers 3c; green salted cows and steers, 4< lb.; No. 1 bulls and stags, green, 2c lb. A WIRE FRYING BASKET HAS MANY KITCHEN USES If one happens to possess a wire fry ing basket, which of course is kept scrupulously clean, there are many daily uses for it besides the occasional deep-fat frying for which it was bought. After washing fruit, celery, or let tuce, the wire basket will be found a more effectual drainer than a coland er. If it can be set directly on the ice to keep the product crisp,, say home economics experts of the United States department of agriculture. All the tomatoes for a salad may be scalded before peeling by lowering them quickly into bolting water for a few seconds. Some peel peaches in the same way. Beets may be readily peel ed if after cooking they are plunged into cold water merely long enough to loosen the skin but not chill the hot vegetable. In boiling eggs for the family break fast, place the required number in the wire basket and lower into boiling wa ter. When the eggs are done they can easily be removed all at the same time by lifting out the basket. In frying croquettes or potato chips the use of the wire basket to hold the material to be fried saves time and energy. For frying doughnuts instead of placeing the doughnuts in the basket use the bottom of the basket to force the doughnuts under the surface of the fat as soon as they rise to the top This use of the basket saves time and fat. for doughnuts fried under the fat absorb less grease and can be fried in a shorter time. The basket can also be used to drain the fat from the doughnuts after frying. YAKIMA WOULD COOPERATE FOR CARLOADS OF EGGS An effort has been launched at Yak ima under the auspices of the farm bureau to secure the construction of a cooperative packing plant to handle a carload of eggs daily. DIRECTS STATE RECLAMATION WORK MUCH GRAIN WASTED BY CARELESSNESS IN THRASHING Hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain are lost to consumption each year on American farms because o' improper adjustment and lack of effi Clancy in the operation ot thrashing machines. The United States Depart ment of Agriculture has given con siderable attention to this loss with i view to ascertaining how far improv ed methods can be economically intra duced to adjust waste. It is true, ex perts point out, that sometimes thi time and labor involved In checking p. small loss is worth more than the sav ing. Nevertheless, there are many leaks on almost every thrashing job which might easily be stopped if the farmer or machine operator would spend a few hours in the study of the problem and a few dollars in replacing worn and damaged parts. Feeding the grain into the machine adjustment of the ceianer, and other small items go to make up a total tha' may mean gain or loss. Much graiu i: wasted by failure to clean up at the NEW TODAY orchard ran jikteti We offer bull calvea aired by our St. Mswes herd sire whose dam hna a record of IMU.HB lbs., at hard time prices. Write us your needs. P. O. POWELL * SON. Monmouth, Ore. SALESMEN WANTED—To sell our fruit an < ornamental nursery stock, roses, shrubbery, etc.: exclusive territory; liberal essa advutuf weekly on orders; free outfit. YAKIMA & COLUMBIA RIVES NURSERY CO. Ynkima. Wash. ATTOBNEYB Advice Free. A. Joseph Allen, Lawyer, 507 Leary Bldg.. Seattle. ACCOUNTANTS" — CERTIFIED PUBLIC Hansen, A. S., j Co.. 901 Leary Bldg. AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING SJunoVr a " grinding Specialists Gear Cutting Light Weight Piston Work picked up at docks aud depots. Meduna Machine Works 21 Years' Experience. StS EAST PIKE ST. BOXES AND CRATES Apple, Pear, Peach, Prune ani Tomato Boxes; Egg Cases, Raspberry Crates, direct from the factory to you. Write for prices and save money. OLYMPIA BOX & PACKAGE CO. Olympia. Wash. BRASS FOUNDRY Enterprise Brats Foundry. 2727 7th Aye. So. Wi make all kinds of Brass and Aluminum Castings. CHIROPRACTORS Jepson, Dr. N. A.. 507-8 Crary Bldg. FRED W. RING, D. C, Ph. C. Graduate Three Year Course Palmer School of Chiropractic. 400-1-2 Leary Bldg. and and Madison. CHOCOLATE AND OOOOA MAKDTAOTPBBBB Washington Chocolate Co., Cor. Pon tius and Mercer. Csp. 3140. CASH BEOISTBBB DOWLIKO, 080. H , 1616 3rd Aye. New snd 2nd Hand Nst. Cash Registers. DOCTORS Jordan, Dt. T. Eugene. 2nd floor Mil tual Life Bldg. Main i960. Tubereu loiis, heart disease, epilepsy, diabetes, -right's disesse, enlsrged spleen, die esses of the liver snd obscure disesses generslly. DANCING ACADEMIES STEVENS LANDING SCHOOL. Private halls day and evening. lStl'/t 4th Aye. DRESSES, APRONS, MIDDIES MTO. The Apron Shop, 4029 Arcade Bldg. Good Aprons cheap. Our own make. FLORISTS AND DECQBATOBB Hollywood Gardens. 1»i _j Aye FOUNDRIES—Iron Olympic Foundry Co., 5200 9th Aye. So.. Georgetown Station. Heavy and light cast ings of all kinds. HARDWOOD LUMBER D. A. JOHNSON, 24 30 Ist Aye. So. Deal ers in Hardwood Lumber and Flooring. Factory snd Boat Lumber. HOTELS NORTONIA CAFETERIA Special Sunday Chicken Dinners Every Day Service from 10 A. M. to 7:30 P. M. 1421-S 4th Aye HOTEL STEWART The Hotel where you feel at home. Hot and cold water and stesm heat. St 7 Madison Phone 12SH A.s director of land settlement and reclarnutiun department of Gov ernor Hart's cabinet, Dan J. Scott Is at all times in direct touch with the various irrigation sy-.tems, com pleted and proposed .throughout the state, and is working on plans for land settlement as outlined by the legislature In making a special appropriation for land settlement work. Mr. Scott is a pioneer farmer of the Ritzvllle district, settling in eastern Washington in the early '!)o's. He has been a successful farmer and has been prominent in activities, not only in his home dis trict, but throughout the state. His present position is one of great responsibility and with him rests final decisions in matters pertain ing to irrigation and irrigation dis tricts. Mr. Scott is now working out plans for administration of the land settlement act fund. Under this he will purchase for the state a tract of land to be resold, with improve ments, to actual settlers. Undar the act, ex-service men will be given preference rights to settlement. end of the setting. The United States Department of Agriculture has issued Farmers' Bulletin 991, "The Efficient Operation of Thrashing Machines," which contains much good advice on (his subject. This bulletin may be ob tained by writing to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C. Bees came through the winter in almost perfect condition and with hardly more than two-thirds of the usual loss of colonies during the win ter. Partly due to this and partly to the progress of apiculture in 1920, the number of colonies of bees this spring is estimated by the Bureau of Corps Estimates, United States Department of Agriculture, as 7.4 per cent above the number of a year ago at the same season. Among the States in which notable advance has been made in number of colonies are nearly all of the North Atlantic States, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, South Da kota. Louisiana and Montana. /EATTLE BUYER'/ GUIDE i i . . . i FOR THE BEBT dollar rooms in Seattle go to NEW STANDARD HOTEL First and 71ns. Hot and cold water; free phone in rooms* elevator service. A. W. SANDSTROM, Prep. RIGHT HOTEL Firat and Columbia, two blocks from Coleman Dock. Rooms 76c and up. Mcd crn conveniences. Free phone ia every room. Phone Main 1521. fl rooms at the Hotel Bern aids. Special weekly rates. 410 4th Aye., Seattle. INVESTMENTS FINANCIAL SUCCESS FROM INVESTMENT IN TEXAS OIL "He is a millionaire.'' This remark caused me to turn and I saw a lusn whom I kuew ha.l made millions I inquired concerning this man. and soon found that a few years ago he was poor—extremely poor—and that he mode his fortune in refining of oil. He did not drill oil wells with his own and his friends' capital. He built a small refinery and today this in in is at the head of one oi the largest oil refining companies in the mid-continent field. If you are interested in getting on in the world, if you want to make money—investigate the refining end of the oi] business. Write today for three month trial snbscrip tion to tile Xl Dorado Oil News —Free Cou pon must be used to entitle you to this offer. HOWLAND « PEDERSON. 1314 L. C Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Please send me the Rl Dorado Oil News for 3 months without ehnrge. It is understood that this places me under no obligation. Name Address —6LVTH, witter and co. — maintain offices in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles. Paaadens, San Diego and New York to bny and sell sound invest ment bonds. The selection of your bond house is as important as the se lection of your bond. Ask your banker about us. snd send for our offerings. Our Seattle office »12 Second »" WE CAN SUPPLY White lieehnrn Pullets 3 months of mgv hatched from TaDerwl Strum Trap-Neat Parent atock at $1.65 each; March and April hatch. These are exceptionally fine range raised birds and well worth the money. QUEEN HATCHERY SEATTLE. WASH MALT-SYRUP- HOPS BOTTLERS. SUPPLIES Special Mail Order Service. We ship C. O. D. if desired, vis express or parrel poat. C. O. HART 109 University Seattle St. Pan! Stove Repair Co. —H tgm St 1 give scientific treatment to ailmenta thai encumber feet. DR. LOUISE FOLSOM Chiropodist 1504 3rd Aye. Seattle, Wash PATENT ATTORNEYS Horace Barnes, registered patent attar ney. Expert Assistance. inventions de veloped, searches, advies. 608 Pioneei Bids. Mason, Fenwick b Lawrence, Burke Bldg PATENT and TRADEMARK EXPERT* Oura Bldg. Wash., D. C, Woolwortt RMg. W T Barry Bowen mt Co. Designing. eßei eney, mechanics!, consulting. engineers Inventions developed, searches. Informs lion free. 28th Floor Smith Bldg. BEES ARE THRIVING PROJECT MEN TO MAKE TOUR King, Pierce and Snohomish County Leaders to Examine Projects in August SEE EXPERIMENTAL FARM Seventy Leaders and Many Farmers Wilt Make Up the Caravan County agents ot King, Tierce and Snohomish counties met recently in Seattle and arranged for a trip for the project leaders of the three counties to take place in August and examine some of the outstanding projects in the three counties. The parly will spend a day in each county starting in Snohomish county and working south. August 4, 5 and 6 are the dates thai have been selected, but this time may be changed later if found uecessar). It is expected that at least seventy five project leaders will make the trip and farmers who are interested in the work will be welcome to accompany the party. One of the principal stops in King County will be at the John Sinn place near Novelty where a small experi mental farm is being conducted und er the direction of A. B. Nystrom. county agent. There the party will have a chance to examine the new Huhan clover, alfalfa, fertilizer tests and weed killing. ARSENATE OF LEAD FOR GREEN CABBAGE WORM The green cabbage worm can be killed with an arsenate of lead spray in which laundry soap has been mixed to make it adhere to the leaves. This treatment will also kill the cabbage looper and other cabbage worms. Nic otine sulphate or kerosene emulsion and soap should he used against the harlequin cabbage hug and plant lice or "aphis." Tile drains are valuable only when properly placed in the right place and kept open. SEATTLE MECHANICAL AND ELECTRO PLATING CO. NICKEL AND SILVER PLATING VI KCTRO PLATING, NICKEL, Copper, Brut, Gold and Silver. Lacquering and polUhing and oxydisinf of all kinds. 1811 sth Aye. (rear) Ante Parts. ■ ' SAVINGS "AND LOAN- Trades Union Savings _ Loan Assn., 811 2nd Aye. Successfully operated by working men. Resources over $800,000. Dividends paid semi-annually. " SHOE" REPAIRING. 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TBABTSFEB UNION TRANSFER, MOVING A STORAGE CO. We specialise in long dletance moving. SOT Pike Street jtele 881 SsatUs T R* T r S~M AN UF ACTU RE R ~ C. P. J.ilmsiin F.xpert Fitter and Manufacturer Trusses :md Body Braces. Sl9 Washington Bldg. PMBEBLLAS New, Recovering, Repsiring. Block Bros, ItSj 2nd Aye.. Seattle. WALLBOARD MANUFACTURERS PERFECTION PLASTER WALLBOARD. manufactured by Western Walll,oard Co., 4527 9th Aye. 80. Sidney 63. WOMEJTS DEPARTMENT SHAMEK'S Hemstitching. Acrordian Pleating, Boa Side Pleating, Cloth Covered Ruttona Mail Ordera handled promptly. Mail your orders to O. J. BAUER It 00. 1317-131* 4th Aye., Seattle Tailors' and Dressmakers' Supplies Accordlan plaiting;, knife plaiting, baas stitch—if, braiding, buttons covered. $8 WOMEN'S KHAKI SUITS S9 Psnts or Skirt S3 50-14, coat »4 50 15 IBM let Are., Seattle Remember the No. KELLY'S ■ ACCOBDIAN PLEATING Hemstitching- and Piroting. 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