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Farmers' Bulletin 1100.
NEED OF FOREST PRODUCTS ASSOCIATIONS.
It is noticeable that forest products are not mentioned in the list
of associations secured by the Bureau of Markets. There are, how-
ever, in the Middle West, " farmers' cooperative companies," classed
in the list as " stores," which buy lumber either as a sole product or
with other products. Their object is to secure lower prices for the
merchandise the farmer consumes. Approximately' 10 per cent of
the farmers' companies in the Middle West handle lumber. The num-
ber of these companies retailing lumber in 1915 was five times asFia. 1.-The portable sawmill operated by a cooperative association may be an effective
agency for the proper development of a forest.
great as in 1910. As a rule, the benefits of the low prices at which
they sell are shared by the community, since few of them restrict
their sales to their own members.
The efficiency of these buying organizations may very well indi-
cate to the farmer in the wooded regions the advantage- of the selling
organizations advocated in this bulletin. There are few products
of the soil the marketing of which would be more aided by the for-
mation of cooperative marketing associations than forest products.
Two considerations are of fundamental importance: (1) As ordi-
narily handled, the yield is not an annual one and the woodland
owner is not in touch with the market. (2) Because of their bulk
1 Report No. 116, Office of the Secretary, 1918, " The Distribution of Softwood
Lumber in the Middle West," by Ovid M. Butler.4
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Hawes, Austin F. (Austin Foster), 1879-1962. Cooperative Marketing of Woodland Products, pamphlet, 1920; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc85998/m1/4/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.