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NEED FOR MARKET CHANNEL
John J. Bugge, Matanuska farmer, recently purchased a new half
ton Ford truck. The car will be used to expedite deliveries of his farm
produce. The purchase of the car is of particular interest from a num
ber of angles.
First, Mr. Bugge’s experience, who by the way is a one-handed
bachelor having lost said hand before coming north, started work
upon his homestead in 1915; he had but $35 and that was bon owed.
He has maintained himself upon the farm, cleared and brought to
a high state of cultivation, more than 80 acres of virgin timber land.
He has erected a substantial house, barn, machine shed and numer
ous small buildings, acquired complete farm equipment including
tractor, feed grinder, binder, mower and many other small machines
necessary for the operation of a general farm. The produce of this
farm consists of poultry and dairy products, vegetables, grain, hay,
pork and beef.
The second factor of interest in connection with Mr. Bugge’s pur
chase of a car, is that though his farm is located alongside of the
railroad track, it is necessary for him to purchase a car in order to
market his product at other places than his nearest rail point.
The population along the railroad belt buys hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of farm products annually such as are successfplly,
produced upon this farm, but there is an apparent lack of adequate
established channels through which the produce from the farms can
flow to the consumer.
The instance just cited is a case where the farmer is not only an
ambitious and energetic farmer, but one who possesses knowledge
and business acumen sufficient to market his own products. The
commission business is hghly organized and takes nto account not
only the purchase and sale of products but a thorough knowledge
of market grades, available stocks, stocks of commodities on hand,
banking facilities and an expert knowledge of possible and available
markets.
In the states the matter of markets and market channels, is
handled by commission or middle-men who, thru experience and
knowledge, become adept at moving the produce of farms to the var-!
ious points where it is consumed. The business is highly specialzed
and receive aid from a number of industries in the way of informa- i
tion, from specially appointed state and government commissions, aid
in the way of specially built up government organizations created for
the purpose of supplying information, required in the movement of,
farm products.
What commission man would attempt to farm and produce the
products he sells? Either business requires expert knowledge to be
successful. Yet that is the position in which the Alaska farmer of to
day finds himself. The average Alaska farmer, no more than the av
erage farmer of any farming community, has the time or inclina
tion to become a successful commission merchant in addition to his
already confining and arduous duties. Numerous Alaska communities
have successfully demonstrated their agricultural possibilities as far
as growth and production of farm products is concerned.
THE VITAL POINT
What has not been developed is a satisfactory channel for mar
keting farm products.
Alaska is in a unique situation as a frontier Territory; we consid
er ourselves somewhat isolated from the sttes due to our geographical
position, but no frontier previous to this time has been developed
with the adequate facilities for quick and efficient transportation
that Alaska possesses. Refrigeration and quick movement have made
it possible to land perishable products such as fresh vegetables and
berries from the states at our northermost ponits in edible condition,;
while quantities of these products produced at home have been allow- j
ed to waste. Hundreds of crates of Alaska strawberries, raspberries
and head lettuce have been allowed to remain unharvested in the
fields this season as they have for many years past while outside pro
ducts moved through the farming belts to points north.
The surface has not been scratched as far as quantity production
is concerned for the sole reason that there is not available for the
farmer an organized market channel for his products. He has not
the time to locate buyers; he has not been schooled in methods and
means of established grades and qualities; he has no means of es
tablishing banking connections in the way of credits and collections.
In expanding his market, he is not prepared to take a loss on one
shipment and balance it up with the profit; and second, he has no
training in the intricacies of widening markets and holding custo
mers once he has them.
LEADERSHIP NEEDED
The obvious move if agricultural activity is to be encouraged is
that of establishing satisfactory market channels, for the movement
of produce from the farm to the consumer. Under proper leadership_
this is a matter that could be developed by the Alaska Chamber of
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MADE BY CHINA
HOIST SOVIET
CHINESE TROOPS REPULSED A
‘ SOVIET ATTACK; BATTLE
LASTED TWO HOURS
WASHINGTON, Aug., 27, (/P)—
Charges of the gravest nature in
volving Russian Soviet activities in
China were made in a communica
tion from the Chinese government
to the Department of State. The
Chinese government declared that
documentary evidence in its pos
session proves that the union of
the Soviet republic has been social
ly plotting the overthrow of the
Chinese government, using the
Chinese Eastern Railway and other
Soviet controlled or influenced in
stitutions to further their nefari
ous schemes of Bolshevism.
The communication declares
that Russia has been conducting
communistic propaganda in China
since 1927, aiming not only at the
overthrow of the government but
destruction of the Chinese econo- i
mic system,
A dispatch from Tokio says the
Chinese troops repulsed a Soviet j
attack on the Manchurian frontier |
town of Manchuli in a battle last- j
ing two hours. ;
INVADE HOME AND ROB
NEW YORK, Aug., 26. (/P) —
Four masked robbers invaded the
home of Richard Weber, wealthy
Queens builder at Malba, Long
Island, and escaped with $75,000
worth of jewelry and $400 in
cash, after forcing Mrs. Weber
to open the safe and bullying
Weber into submission by threat
ening him with revolvers as he
lay in his bed.
W. H. Suksdorf and his crew of
men who are going into the Deer
ing section. Nome, left recently for
hte head of Humbolt creek with
five horces and 40 tons of supplies.
IS OPTIMISTIC
WASHINGTON, Aug., 27, (JP)—
Secretary of Treasury Mellon re
gards recent business trends as
highly favorable and is optimistic
about the outlook of the future, he
declared in a statement.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 9; Cincinnati 5.
Philadelphia 7; St. Louis 6.
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7N THE PROBATE COURT FOR '
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
THIRD DIVISION, SEWARD
PRECINCT, AT SEWARD
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF KARL WILLIAM SPATH,
DECEASED.
NO. ——
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE is hereby given that the
mdersigned has been by said court
appointed Administrator of the es
ate of KARL WILLIAM SPATH.
|deceased, and to the creditors of
and all persons having claims
. gainst the said decedent, to exhib
it them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six months after the j
irst publication of this notice, to j
the said administrator at his place
|of business with C. M. Brosius in
the Town of Seward, Alaska, the
fame being the place for transac
tion of the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division.
Dated at Seward, Alaska July 13tr.
1929.
JOHN PAULSTEINER, j
Administrator.»
Date first publication July 15, 1929.!
Date last publication September 13, I
| 1929. |
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