. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SEPTEMBER 20, 1902J &he ^Kgebev inxb &\rovt$ntixti 1 A Co-operative Plan for Farmers. Chicago, September 15.—The Farmers' Co-opera- tive Association, known as the "Farmers' Trust," has opened offices in the Royal Insurance building. The officers of the new concern say that they do not intend to attempt any co-operation in the running: of farms, as that plan has been tried and has failed several times. It is their idea to do away with the middlemen and to control prices. The company was recently incorporated at South Pierre, S. D ; its officers
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SEPTEMBER 20, 1902J &he ^Kgebev inxb &\rovt$ntixti 1 A Co-operative Plan for Farmers. Chicago, September 15.—The Farmers' Co-opera- tive Association, known as the "Farmers' Trust," has opened offices in the Royal Insurance building. The officers of the new concern say that they do not intend to attempt any co-operation in the running: of farms, as that plan has been tried and has failed several times. It is their idea to do away with the middlemen and to control prices. The company was recently incorporated at South Pierre, S. D ; its officers are: President, Robert Lind- blom; first vice-president and general manager of the grain department, EL H. Carr; second vice-president and general manager of the produce department, George W. Linn; secretary, O. W. Clapp; general counsel, Joseph W. Burton; general financial agent, Hamilton White. The benefit to the farmers will come mostly from the fact that the entire crop will not be thrown on the market at once, officials claim, but will be disposed of in such manner that the highest prices can be secured to the producer. Those back of the plan assert that within a year it will be in coatrol of the entire agricultural output of the United States Stock, it is said, is being rapidly disposed of. The above dispatch appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle of last Monday. A cDrrespondent of the Breeder and Sportsman offers the following origi- nal plan for a combination between producer and middleman which he believes is entirely practical and not difficult to put in operation: "To obtain satisfactory prices the farmer must make sales of all of their products through one aqent, they should also make all of their purchases through one aqent in order to avoid the penalty of high prices brought about by labor unions and trusts in other lines of industry. They should also do all of their banking business and insurance through one agent, in order to lower the rates of interest
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