2806 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE.

It would probably have to be distributed; and that means that there has got
to be cooperation among the manufacturers, to determine on the price, and
‘hings like that. There has got to be a price agreement on that. ’
W. W. Hudson, advertising manager and export manager of the
Waverly Co., Indianapolis, Ind., manufacturers of electric automobiles,
 said:
If our industry were in a position to consolidate in foreign business, that Is,
if all manufacturers in the electric-vehicle industry could obtain one branch
house in Bogota, say, or Rio de Janeiro, or some other South American
port, we would then be in a position to cover that matter of the batteries;
that is, we could ship them disassembled, knocked down, and they could be
assembled over there. It is too expensive a proposition for each manufacturer
to open a branch house himself. It can not be done for less than $1,000 a
month, and the business in the foreign country would not warrant that expense.
We have had branch houses in London and Paris. and once in Italy, in Florence,
put it was a losing proposition. * * * ]
My idea would be that we would have a house there which would take care
of the repair, and car batteries, the assembling of them, and all that sort of
thing ; but that each house would have its own sales-representative.
George E. Smith, president of the Royal Typewriter Co., New
York Citv. said:

The small manufacturer can not stand the expense of putting out a single
organization around the world to sell his individual proposition, but if he can
ombine, as has been suggested, and be able to reach these markets with small
selling expenses. there is no question but what the market is there.

To prevent the price of exports of hominy feed from being fixed
by combinations of foreign buyers,” Asher Miner, president of the
National Association of White Corn Millers, Cincinnati, Ohio, sugrested
 :

The remedy would seem to be to allow the American white corn millers to
agree, if possible, upon a uniform export price, or for all American mills to
place the surplus hominy feed they may have for export in the hands of one
exporter or broker for sale abroad, so that every one of the mills could thus
secure. the best possible price abroad for their surplus stock.
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The cooperation would allow the American millers to contribute to a fund
to be used to exploit and advertise in foreign countries the immense value and
aconomy in the use of corn products and thus increase materially the consump-Hon
 abroad and the value to the American farmers of one of our principal
crops, while this advertising can not be done by individual millers, because of
the great expense involved.

J. H. Genung, sales manager of the American Hominy Co,
[ndianapolis. Ind.. said:

« = = in behalf of the American millers of white-corn goods, we would
like to have cooperation. * * *
If we could cooperate and have some means of knowing what“is going on,
we would be able to get a better price abroad, and consequently the prices in
this country would be lower.
F. A. Somers, president of Somers &amp; Co., San Francisco, said:
I have simply these two suggestions as to combined action on the. part of
alfalfa-meal millers. }
There are probably 15 or 20 of them in California at this time, and alfalfamolasses
 mixers, of which there are about five in California, who, if they could
combine, must be able to develop this business. which I am sure can grow to
immense proportions.
And the second suggestion is that of having some kind of a Government
stamp on our goods, a warranty of purity and of the ingredients which we
advertise on the backs of the packages.