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The banker-farmer news bulletin
(1920-1924)
Macklin, Theodore
The Banker-farmer news bulletin. Bulletin no. 21: standardization of dairy products
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_ _ ; C*''0- ,-t. ' -4 f;_' ', 'l-essly impractical organization. Wisconsin should have the begefits of the sound marketing organization. It should be spared the costs (nd disappointments and, tragedy of unsoutd organization. The Wisconsin Cheese Producers' Federation,. patterned after the successful enterprises of other regions is of the sound type. Its benefits through - grading products and bringing to the farmer a premium for quality, cannot be realized by the people of Wisconsin, however, until it grows from infancy to manhood. Without full-grown sound marketing organizations of this sort -for each important dairy product such as American cheese, butter, foreign cheese, etc., there is no practical means of insuring that farm products will yield the farmer a return in proportion to that which consumers pay for them. Grading and standardizing farm products combined with a program of paying farmers according to quality and bringing them a maximum part of what consumers now pay is a service that is peculiarly uncommon except where efficient powerful co-operative federations of farmers' successful local co-operative enterprises have been established. WHAT DO THE LACK OF THESE ENTERPRISES MEAN TO WISCONSIN? What does it mean to bankers if their tournover or size of business is seriously reduced because cheese prices fall from 20 cents to 12 cents a pound while the bulk of the cheese is being produced and sold? What does this same reduced purchasing power to farmers mean to merchants and retailers of all kinds whose prosperity depends upon their sales to farmers? To promote prosperity for all, understand what means prosperity to you. Boost the other chaps purchasing power and he can't help but boost yours. (Read Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 322 and Circular 136 for further discussion. Copies of these bulletins can be obtained by writing the College of Agriculture, Madison, Wis.) 153 ChdoreAe aioWs The Banker-Farmer Exchange Good, Well Bred, Productive and Healthy Livestock Go Hand In Hand With the Standardization of Dairy Products Tested and record bulls listed for sale. Noted families of females listed for sale. Stock for foundation herds a specialty. Grades and purebreds can be supplied in carload lots. Farmers and breeders with livestock are invited to list them with us for sale. We are receiving a large number of inquiries for stock. SEEDS of all kinds for sale. We call special attention to our bargains in SEED CORN and POTATOES. See your banker or write Banker-Farmer Exchange D. H. Otis. Director. Madison, Wis. 1= Chadbourne Ave.
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