Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1928 — Page 14

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FARM BUREAU EXPANDS PLANS FOR 1929W0RK So-operative Markets to Get Main Attention of Leaders. Development of co-operative marketing to place the Hoosier farmer in position best to benefit by promised legislation for agricultural re- , lief will be the dominant purpose of the Indiana Farm Bureau federation in 1929. • This was the statement of farm bureau officials today, as the completed plans for the annual* convention of the bureau at the Claypool hotel Nov. 26 and 27. Satisfied with President-Elect Hoover’s promise that the federal government will finance the machinery to dispose of farm surplus, bureau leaders are intent on strengthening the organization in

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Indiana and throughout the United States to insure the" organized cooperation of farmers. In Indiana, the bureau’s energies will be concentrated on enlarging the membership, now in excess of 60,000, and in bringing more members into the co-operative features of the organization. “Business of the various farm bureau departments has reached almost $60,000 this year,” said William H. Settle, bureau president, “in addition to supporting social, educational, taxation, and legislative programs. “And as the bureau has increased as a business institution, it has developed farm leadership—has made business men of farmers.” The co-operative marketing and co-operative buying departments of the Indiana farm organization have been factors in the gradual disappearance of the farmer who brought his butter and eggs to the grocer in exchange for sugar and other staples. Instead, tricks operated by the dairy pool traverse the highways and byroads daily, collecting dairy products, while many of the farmer’s needs are supplied from the bureau’s co-operative buying department. Indiana farmers are availing themselves of four co-operative sell-

ing departments operated by the bureau. The wheat pool, under direction of B. B. Berner of Mays, Ind., has been instrumental in raising the price of wheat to the producer from 94.6 cents a bushel, when the pool was inaugurated in 1924, to more than $1.30. Meantime, the pool has been getting a larger share of the state’s wheat crop. This was increased from 1,500,000 bushels in 1924 to 4,125,000 in 1926. This year the pool was inactive because of the wheat failure. The livestock marketing department has been developed until farmer-owned commission agencies have been established on seven markets—lndianapolis, Evansville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Chicago, and Cleveland. At each of these points, the farm bureau agencies control from 15 to 30 per cent of the deliveries. At Indianapolis the farm bureau share has been as high as 47 per cent of the stock delivered at market. Lee R. Highlen, of Liberty Center, directs this department. A dozen milk pools have been established throughout the state. Fifty per cent of Indianapolis’ milk supply comes through the local farm bureau pool, which embraces Marion and six neighboring coun-

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ties. Carl L. Hedges, of Muncie, directs the milk pool operations in the state. The milk price to producers has been increased from 60 to 67% cents per butterfat pound in the last year. The wool pool, directed by T. I. Ferris, of Pleasant Lake, Ind., is one of the oldest and most successful of the co-operative selling ventures undertaken the Indiana farm bureau. Under the bureau-sponsored cooperative buying plan, Indiana farmers are going to the federation for fertilizer, seeds, feeds, coal, machinery, oils, binder twine, and other farm supplies. Thirty-nine thousand automobiles were insured by the farm bureau’s insurance department in the last year, and approximately SIO,OOO a month paid in claims. Yellow pine trees of southern Nevada have been found to exceed 500 years in age.

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