Farm Cooperatives Explained
(Continued fiom Page 1) lo.\.illy of the lvpic.il iiuliisln.il
Brown added, "By patiomzing < Ol poration is to the stockholder
Cooperatives, you establish .a base ,llsl - then the coiisiimci. then
for return It keeps money m llu suppliei, the eoopei.dive's
farming This (farming) is om fust lojalty is to the consumeis
Only business" The young people vveie Intel
Homy Givlei, distnct FF \
leader and panel modcratoi.
commented that the coopciative
Serves “as a base and is a stabal
izing factor m puces we get and
prices we pay ”
Yoder said, “In om industiy,
Jmpioving the daily cattle has
keen well established Fees aie
Stabalized Theie are mans,
many advantages (to aiticilical
bleeding)
"We have competition and this giow, we need some good biams
keeps us sharp We do not label Regardless of size communica
our business as being cheap tions is one of the biggest piob
Service is of the utmost mipoi- lems we have in coopeiatives ”
Ifcance and that is the thing we How do cooperatives work
have to sell. We are efficient” and who contiols them, the
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("led in peison.il oppoi tunnies
m cooperatives
The coopciative icpiesent.i
t ves said |obs include field
men. office men, communica
lions people, good secietanes.
all coopeiatives aie in need ot
people who can wnte well Co
opeialivcs need all the countei
paits that arc in mdustiv
Biown said, “As we glow, and
coopeiatives aie all going to
vlaitley said. ' Coopt i.i'.im s an
coniioiled In llicii usc is and the
umis benefit in piopoilion It)
use " Ik ,ilso said cosi of bong
m a coopcialivc must lx (on
s.tlcicd in icl.non lo the it Hun
II was icpolled lli.u Hu Cap
pel Volstead \et of 1022 e-lati
li'hing the legal basis foi co
opeiatives piovidttl foi e\emp
lion fiom the anti Inist law-. lot
fa.mois coopeiating to eontiol
llu* niaiket Ihe \el also piovid
ed foi membtisbip on a one
memliei one vole baMs megaid
It ss ot the si/c of the faun opeia
lion
But it was lepoited that l.ugt
membeis can benefit horn bulk
discounts.
The coopei alive icpiescnla
t,\es emphasized that the mem
bets dcteimine the policies ol
the coopei ative Givlei said.
"Those annual meetings aie im
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 18.1070--'i
poitant Membt rs delei mine the
d'ltclion of the toopeiative
(rail lev said, Trill e.iue 1 tit v tan
si I in and llu eoopeiative can
lom eomnunm.ition This tan be
stopped veiv eas.lv bv the me in
beis But oflt n the nu minis
don t i ven go to nueting- '
Siveial iepi eseiit.ilivt > sa.d
its vei.v impoitaiii to -lav m
loimed on the actions of the eo
opt ialive and to attend coopt ia
live meetings
'the Vgvvav icpica nlaiiVc
whose film is 1811 h hugest in tin*
count)v. lesponded lo the tpas
non ‘Can a eoopeiative be too
l.age.-> ’
Hess said \gvvav bungs lo
gelliei three coopeiatives but
• Agvvr.v is actuallj too small to
compete with the geneial loods
but as we giovv, we must icalize
that it’s the individual faimei
vho niaki i ilu too|n i.i'iu „iul
«i must kiep In-. \m!l,ik m
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till 1 1)0.11(1 Of lillll'Ol' Ol UK
1 in is nu -llnu with Ilu qiit's
I ( II of (\I). I!' Oil into IK U 111 1(1-
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J) lS( IK lllUll (|lKilll\ oi MIMM
i.ni hi in.iin'.iiiiul il i\p.msion
i.ikii pl.iu he sml
Hnlli Biubaku -how(d -Inks
. ml i \pla.nul at! \ ilies ol \ outli
al tlv Puinsvhaina Xs-ocation
o' I.n in CoopuatiM- ’louth In
-t iiitc List \(mu at .Sluppt nsbui g
S all College anil kinfoul Mai
-lin voke on his tup to the
Vinmcan Institute of Coopeia
tnes \dtionul outh Institute
a the Urueiiit.v ot Illinois
In the afternoon. Hal F Do.an.
Penn State agiicultuie business
advisoi, showed a film and spoke
on ‘Rewaiding Caieeis in a
D.\namic Industij ”
He emphasized the need o£
young people to get involved in.
piojecls because thev can be ex
pected to change jobs an aveiage
of thiee times and they should
become awaie of the oppoitun
ities in coopeiatives and agricul
ture.
A cooperative quiz was given
the 88 students who attended the
piogiam.
• National Ayrshire
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Lancaster County area dauy
men consigning animals weie
Chailes Gable, of Elverson, who
leceived SI,OOO for a bred heifei,
and Masonic Homes Faim, Eliz
abethtown, which leceived $BOO
for a bred heifer
Pnoi to the sale at the
Guernsey Sales Pavilion, the
Ayrshire oiganization held, its
annual banquet, piesenting sev
eral awaids
I Gable was the only breeder
I receiving a Constructive Bieed
ei award fiom the county aiea
Eailier m the convention, lead
ing Ayrshire danymen discussed
key problems, including labor
shortage, puce • cost squeeze,
and high inteiest lates
Stressing laboi as his only real
pioblem was Fonest Muetzel,
of Owatonna, Minn, who has
200 head on a 1,000-acie faun.
He laises his own com, alfalfa
and soybeans
Memtt Cook, of Nemaha,
lowa, also stiessed labor, but
added that the physical prob
lem of keeping up in the daily
business within a feasible eco
nomic range was majoi, too
Cook has a 360 acre faim, with.
85 milkeis, 30 Ayi shire steei s
on feed, with the balance young
stock He feeds alfalfa and
silage
Raymond Jauatt, of Albu
queique, NM, also listed laboi,
but added an unusual problem.
Duung summer months, he
has a haid time keeping the
butteifat levels up He explain
ed that the constant hot tem
peiatuies avei aging about 95,
coupled with 10 pei cent humid
ity caused butteifat in his 200
head held to diop
Everything in his aiea is ir
rigated with water fiom the
mountains He impoi ts all of his
feed, coin and bailey, and
doesn’t use the harder sorghums
Francis Caveily, of Wateiville,
Me, has 300 head, with about
140 milkers
The major pioblem he sees
facing both old - time daiiymen
and youngsteis stalling out is
the high cost of money, al
though laboi, too, is a pioblem
He said expansion was diffi
cult at the piesent money iates
and youngsteis just couldn’t get
siaited
Good faun laboi he said, is
veiy shoit, and geneiallj un-