Agricultural Pools in Relation to Regulating the Movement and Price of CommoditiesAcademy of political science, 1926 - 236 pages |
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Page 743 - North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma. Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. In addition, the "unreasonably dangerous" standard has been accepted in Alabama and Georgia.
Page 743 - Any association organized hereunder shall be deemed not to be a conspiracy nor a combination in restraint of trade nor an illegal monopoly; nor an attempt to lessen competition or to fix prices arbitrarily or to create a combination or pool in violation of any law of this State ; and the marketing contracts and agreements between the association and its members and any agreements authorized in this act shall be considered not to be illegal nor in restraint of trade nor contrary to the provisions...
Page 742 - The business of the Nation has grown from the individual through partnership into the corporation. A corporation is but a form of cooperative enterprise and cooperation in industry, therefore is much more marked than it is in agriculture. To destroy this element of industry — these factors of growth — would weaken the Nation itself. We believe the time has...
Page 743 - ... otherwise with or without capital stock, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling and marketing in Interstate and foreign commerce, such products of persons so engaged. Such associations may have marketing agencies in common: and such associations and their members may make the necessary contracts and agreements to effect such purposes...
Page 743 - That persons engaged in the production of agricultural products as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers may act together in associations, corporate or otherwise, with or without capital stock, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling, and marketing in inter-state and foreign commerce, such products of persons so engaged.
Page 745 - Christensen, Chris L., Agricultural Cooperation in Denmark, US Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 1266 (1924).
Page 782 - ... and VIII, the pay-roll records are divided according to the size of the enterprise as measured by the number of workers employed. These tables show that concerns having over 100 employees in the first quarter of 1920 laid off 3,300,000 out of the 4,100,000 who were removed from the pay rolls, while two-thirds of the remaining reduction occurred in enterprises employing 21 to 100 persons at the date mentioned and this despite the fact that about one-third of all employees work for employers hiring...
Page 753 - ... fluctuations in any two markets can be expected only under one of two sets of circumstances. In the first place, the two markets might conceivably remain in line with one another because both were controlled by the same forces, or second, prices in one market might exercise a controlling influence over prices in the other. In practice neither of these things ever happens completely in connection with the spot and futures markets of the produce trades. To show what does happen, it is necessary...
Page 765 - ASHEB, and CHANEY. J. BURTON. 378. SALES METHODS AND POLICIES OF A GROWERS' NATIONAL MARKETING AGENCY. US Dept. Agr. Bui. 1109, 36 p., illus. 1923. As market surveys revealed the fact that cranberry growers fared better in times of stress than other producers, a detailed analysis was made of their marketing methods. The evolution of the present system of selling, during 26 years of experience, is described In...
Page 741 - ... relates to the exchange of information. The activities of the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce in collecting and publishing corp reports, and statistics of production, stocks, and sales, aid producers to adjust supply to demand without opening the door to extortionate restriction of output. The decisions of the Supreme Court in the maple flooring and cement cases * which permit producers to exchange information, provided it is given also to the public, point in the same direction. Overproduction,...