Dorothy I!. Bell, Zditor—I". IloCartney, ass’t
Palmer, Alaska
Published every week at Palmer, Alaska, for the 1 !atanuska Valley Farmers’ Cooperating
Association for the purpose of giving news of the Associations rrork, Problens and
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?or ".ore than a hundred years A eric an far
mers have been rorkinr together through co
operatives. A great many have been'Success
ful; ’put some of there have failed. Out of
this experience there has grom a set of sir]
ief common sense rules for nan aging a far
riers* c ooperative. If a co-op folios these !
rules it generally ^ill succeed—if it does !
not, it is alnost sure to fail. 1. A co-op i
is a business proposition and it must be runj
in a business like "ay. 2. All members of a i
co-op must -ork together for the good of tiiej
mholc group. A co-op is built on goodrill
and every member must be milling to do his ]
sharo. A co-op is omned by its members and i
run by then. Inch member has a stake in thej
co-op and an equal vote in its affairs. The i
members sot their om elans of operation,
and settle thoir "roblens by free discussion
!
"con there is an important question to de
cide the members tall: it over and make the
decision. T'"ore is r.o dictator telling then
nhat to do. Co-ops folio-; the A erican may
of doing things--Thoy belong to the people.
’T or co-ops fail to stick to this principle
they get into a lot of trouble. 7~>v example j
there is the case of a hay-and-feod cho--' or
co-op ■■’lie’, six small farmers started r;ith i
the help of an 7SA loan. It looked like a
fine set up. However, it soon turned out
that all of the members rere not sat fsfic'd.
One or +-..T0 thought a different kind of nach-j
ine should have been bought. Still another
thought he ras not getting to use the equi^
•ont as much as he should. S'acral felt the
a arc t alter ras net doing a good job. As a
result, the ;rouy did not rork -veil togethei
and the affairs of the co-o^ lent getting
orse and "orse.
They ’finally got together with the 7SA
visor to talk over their differences. A''.:,
the problems of the co-op rere carefully
discussed. As a result of the meting a
nor manager —us elected and nor "Ians rere
nude for the use of the machinery. Tr.o mem
bers remained dissatisfied, however, they
said the;.'- rere really not interested in co
operating. ’’.'hen they dropped out the other
members voted in tro nor farriers right aray.
Tno co-op rent along successfully after that
oeoause the farmers had net their nrollers
democratically and in time.
It is interesting to knor rhat others have
lone to solve their problems. Te. have many
•.t the present time, but rhen the loyal far
mers, ~ho are-really interested in the co
perativo -.-ay, get together and talk things
'vor--a solution can usually be found. Our
m Co-op has more of these loyal members
;han re at first realized.
he farmer rho says ho can’t talk in public
<nly needs encouragement. •
Kf.EP ■
ROOSTER;
Housewives buy eggs for cooking-not for
hatching I 3o, when, yovv’re -selling market
eggs, there's no reason to keep roosters
in your flock. They only eat up a lot of
feed—2C rounds a year ner bird. On 90
pounds of feed, a hen could maintain her
weight and produce 136 eg s!
Fertile eggs don't keen well, because the
germ starts to develop any time the temper
ature gets -above 68°I If you have infertile
eggs, you'll have FRL3KZR eggs.
PALMED FLOUR, oIRL5 MEET
Pho 4-H Fairing Club girls met at the. hone of
their loader, Hrs. Lou Sandv^ik, .on Tuesday*
evening after school.
.is soon as re were there Hrs. Sandvik told us
that she aid Hiss Johnson had decided on one
of the names we. had suggested for our Baking
Club. It wasFHLHBR FLOUR HERBS.
lift or the business meeting which -as called
to order by our Vice President, wo sang until
‘Irs. Sandvik demonstrated how to make Falling
"•order Biscuits. She shored us her: to clean
op the kitchen afterwords. Vo liked her
oiscuits.
Reporter—T"’anda Lee Bell.
•loney plus materials'plus members equals
looperative business.