CO-OPERATIVE BUYING.
More than 4000 Kimv England ( U.S.A.) farmers have pooled their winter’s dairy feed orders, and will purchase a total of 30,000 tons of feed through the Eastern states Farmers ' * Exchange, according to the "Breeder’s Gazette,’' Eight .New England bank* are assisting' in financing the project. Each farmer will receive his feed in six equal shipments, made a month apart, and will pay cash on. delivery. The total value of the feeds exceed £230,000. That js tut example of the - practical value of co-operation, and when it is mentioned that the dairymen saved probably £40,000 on the deal we can understand why they are so keen on the idea of cutting out the middleman.
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Otaki Mail, 19 February 1923, Page 4
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115CO-OPERATIVE BUYING. Otaki Mail, 19 February 1923, Page 4
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