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Palmer, Alaska
Editor.Dorothy Bell
Advertising....Kerriot Z* Boll
Published once a week at Palmer, Alaska for tho Matenuska Valley Farmers'
ooperating Association for the purpose of giving news of the Associa
ions work, problems and accomplishments.
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FRRR1ER C0DPERRTIVES (
IN -AN EXPANDING ECONOMY ^
THEY SERVE AS A DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM' FOR PRODUCTS Of INDUSTRY
HHEtR 1948 INDUSTRIAL PURCHASES WERE ESTIMATED AT $ 1,500,000,000
.,580 Million ’|
t
FEED’
;90 Million
Fertilizer
Laterials
v60 trillion
EH EH
rucks, cars &
ransportation
*290 Million
Petroleum product
& Auto Supplies
*10 million
|_Coal Sc Twine
vlOO Million
Farm Machinery
lumber,Faints etc
0370 Million
Other wliolesale
or
Re t ai1 Supplies
THEY HAVE KEPT
NON-FARM
PACE WITH THE GENERAL FARM AND
ECONOMIC GROWTH
MEMBERSHIP
DOLLAR
VOLUME
1915
1925
1955
1945
Each full figure
equals one
million.
636,000,000
*2,400,000,000
Cl,840,000,000
a
Si'S j-070,000,000
ICach full figure
equals
vl,000,000,000
e.o#
17.7#
19.2#
25.1#
% Tote.1
! Farm Income
1.7$
3.3$
3.2$
3.3$
! % Total
; National
! Income
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY ?
Sometimes we wonder if a "Time Machine" of the "Alley CCp" age, might
not serve a very useful purpose occasionally—if we just had such a
machine. It might do us just a little bit of good now and then to be
projected back 10-20 or 50 years for a short time,—especially 20 years
OQClC*
nlany of us remember those days very well. Men worked for *>1.00 d day
[when they could get work). In some communities a form of script was usee
in an attempt to solve the economic chaos in which people found themselve
treople rumaged through garbage cans for food, lived in packing boxes,
laves just anything to get under shelter. Farmers sold eggs for 10c a
iozen, chickens for 5<zf a pound—and yet people went hungry. Oh yes. this
lap ened in the United States. \e also remember that while this'was g:oir
5n» a LOen was nade to big business by the government with the idea triat
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