Palmer, Alaska
Dorothy M, Bull,Erl it or
Published once a reek at Palmer,Alaska, for the M-.tanuska Volley Farmers’ Cooperating
Association for the purpose of giving nows of the Associations work, problems .and
Accomplishments. . •
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THE FARMER AND HIS COOPERATIVE
Fam cooperatives aro American to the coro. They aro designed to strengthen—cortainly
not inpodo— tho development of this nation’s froo enterprise syston, They nay prOvido
tho only answer to a dilemma which confronts a now genoration of American farmers, and
the only alternative to noro and more control by government buroaus."
Back in Middletown, Connecticut there is family of Bacons doccndcd from a British an
cestor who cane to Connecticut 3CC years ago and acquired the Bacon estate on which
his dccendonts still livo. The prosont Marsdon Bacon,who with his son, farris tho land,
has this to say in regard to Farmers’ Cooperatives—’’Cooperatives offer tholbig single
hope of heading off governmental interference'and domination. They base thoir philos
ophy on solf-help, and they offer the only moans of meeting our one economic ’ out—con
tinually lowering the costs of production and distribution of our products.
”0ur gains through cooperatives aro not as spoctacular as they wero in the early years
of our organization. Much of the benefit from then is preventive in character. They
sorvo as tho balance whool upon which wo must depend. And not all cf tho gain is in
dollars and cents, I think our farm cooperatives aro making a lot of us hotter citizen
in our cormunit ios.”
Chat does Mr. Bacon moan by—”Much of thebenofit fren them is provontativo in character
This is the part which a cooperative plays in a community which so fow of us appreciate
Lot us just suppose that tho farrers in this Valley had no cooperative, Ewch one for
example would bo out soiling his own eggs. As outsido fresh airbom eggs and Canadian
eggs flooded the market, the farmer would be forcod to lower his prico until he could
compote with them. His facilities far storage boing sonowhat limited, he would cut
much lower than an association would in ordor to get them off his hands. Price cutting
would result too as each farmer tried to move his own eggs. A Cooperative provents
this practico and holps keep the prico ’ . as high as is possible. Tho samo thing hap
pens in the Vegetable market. All too often our attention is on the dollars and cents
that tho Association makes—the amount of dividends it pays etc, ^o forgot about tho
other, really more inportant,sorvico that it rondors to all farmers.
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