Marketing Agricultural ProductsD. Appleton, 1921 - 389 páginas |
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Página 119 - The objects of the corporation, as declared by the charter and by-laws, are " to maintain a commercial exchange; to promote uniformity in the customs and usages of merchants; to inculcate principles of justice and equity in trade; to facilitate the speedy adjustment of business disputes; to acquire...
Página 272 - ... and meat products, which yet have been quite without industrial effect. There has been no more striking illustration of the average farmer's naive state of mind on this subject than the bitter opposition aroused by the reciprocity treaty with Canada which the Taft administration proposed in 1910-11. The free admission of wheat contemplated by that treaty was supposed to portend disaster to the wheat growers of the northwest; though it was known to all the world that wheat was exported both from...
Página 32 - It is at least as important that the farmer should get the largest possible return in money, comfort, and social advantages from the crops he grows as that he should get the largest possible return in crops from the land he farms. Agriculture is not the whole of country life. The great rural interests are human interests, and good crops are of little value to the farmer unless they open the door to a good kind of life on the farm.
Página 357 - Committee lead to the conclusion that under the present competitive system it takes almost as many men to bring the dairyman's milk to the consumer as there are dairymen engaged in the production of milk with all their employees. This is the result of the purely competitive basis upon which the business is handled.
Página 143 - the act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of prices in different markets.
Página 254 - State ownership of terminal elevators, flour mills, packing houses, and cold-storage plants. 2. State inspection of grain and grain dockage. 3. Exemption of farm improvements from taxation. 4. State hail insurance on the acreage tax basis. 5. Rural credit banks operated at cost.
Página 357 - ... a single service. It may safely be said that no person of understanding has ever studied this question without reaching the conclusion that the distribution of milk is a public service, which, to be put upon an economic basis, requires public regulation to the end that all unnecessary services even of a competitive kind may be eliminated.
Página 263 - ... the maximum benefits are secured for the producer, and incidentally, for the consumer. 2. To limit the profits and reduce the costs of distribution in all lines not handled cooperatively . 3. To so estimate the effective world supply of any farm product and to so regulate the flow to market as to eliminate sharp and extreme price fluctuations.
Página 197 - NATIONAL GRANGE, WASHINGTON, DC, September, 1868. In response to numerous inquiries in regard to the organization and objects of our Order, this circular is issued. The Order was organized, after much labor and preparation, by a number of distinguished Agriculturists, of various States of the Union, at Washington, in December, 1867, and since then has met with most encouraging success, giving assurance that it will soon become one of the most useful and powerful organizations in the United States.
Página 143 - The difference between legitimate speculation and gambling lies neither in the subject-matter nor in the form of the transaction, but in its intent and purpose. Legitimate speculation involves anticipation of the needs of the market and a power to assume risks in making contracts to meet these needs.