National Farmers Union Holds Large Mitchell Convention
The 21st national Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union meeting convened November 17 to 19 in Mitchell South Dakota. Delegates from across the United States attended as committees urged cooperative livestock marketing and strict Packers and Stockyards Act enforcement. They praised Livestock Commission Houses and supported creating a national livestock board under existing boards.
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Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union
Mitchell
South Dakota
Farmers’ Union
United States
Farmers Union Live Stock Commission
Packers and Stockyards Act
Farmers’ Union Livestock Commission
National Livestock Board
Development of Collective Selling
The article outlines lessons from cooperative marketing efforts by agricultural producers. It notes stubborn opposition but highlights successes across marketing branches through producer owned and controlled enterprises. Benefits include lower marketing costs and higher prices, with support from Farmers' Union Livestock Commission Houses Elevators Produce Exchanges and Creameries.
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Union Livestock Commission
Farmers' groups move 70 million dozen eggs sales
Last year 183 organizations in the United States handled egg and poultry activities. They sold more than 70 million dozen eggs for about $22 million. Only 31 of the 183 were truly cooperative, yet these 81 cooperatives handled 90 percent of egg business.
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United States
Farmers Magazine
Caddie from Ireland Asks To Return For Tomorrow
A farm laborer pressed into service as an improvised caddie on an Irish golf course after a player overpaid him. After two rounds the grateful golfer handed extra pay and the caddie asked if he would be digging there again at the same time tomorrow.
Reverse English quip on marriage by Lotta-Charlotte Crabtree
The actress, known for her fortune of four million, was asked by a Boston reporter why she never married. She smiled and invoked a Greek saying, then delivered a witty twist about marriage and care, ending with a humorous line about taking a wife versus taking care.
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Charlotte Crabtree
Boston
Farm records talk on managing farm business
American Bankers Association outlines how farm records act as a road map for efficiency. D H Otis notes net income gaps among farms, urging use of farm accounting groups and college resources to set community standards, reduce ignorance, and place farming on a business basis.
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American Bankers Association
Colleges of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
College of Agriculture
Corn on dining cars to aid central state farmers
The Milwaukee railroad will feature corn dishes in all dining cars and eating houses along the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line to help dispose of central state corn excess. Breakfasts will include fried corn meal mush and corn muffins with bacon. menus will feature Indian pudding and corn bran.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
Central States
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Proyden Reporter
Milwaukee Railroad
Marion Verrips
Gerrit Slothauber
Boyden
E. C. Suarp
Spirit Lake
Iowa
Albert Grooters
Scotf
Id Dickever
Des Moines
Sioux City
Gerard Scholten
Myrtle de Valois
Jerome de Jong
W. S. Miller
Doon
Sioux County
Orange City
R. G. Lubbers Home. Co
Sheldon
Ann van Zwel
Worthington, Minn
DeBey Hospital
Boyden Reporter
Sioux City Tribune and Journal
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R. C
Boyden Chick Hatchery
A. E. Miller
de Laval
Co-Operative Assn
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