The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-01-10
co OPERATION.

ny PAST MASTER VIM. MAXWELL, OF THE
TENNESSEE STATE GRANGE
= Editor Patron. People want to know
how it pays to give business to co ope-
rative commission house, in place of send
inc, tofany other commission house. They
ask if the same charges are'made by CO.
operative house that any other house
makes, how will we gain anything why
not send to an ordinary commission
house,? Now sit down and learn the dill
ference.
A commission house charges you COM
missions. storage, insurance, and gets a
quantity of loose cotton; it fills your or
ders. charges you commissions, and the
money taken in on these items pays the
actual expenses of the house, consisting OF
storage, insurance, office rent, stationery,
stamps, printing, clerk hire, porter ices,
fuel, lights, interest on money used IN the
business, and the privilege tax. The items
enumerated make up the actual expenses
ofthe business Then whatever IS taken'i
over these expenses, belongs to the house
as the profits on the seasons business.
A CO. operative house would take in the
same amount of money on the same
amount of business; it would be at the
same expense in every respect, and the
same amount would remain as profit IN
the business. Now you are prepared to
see the difference. ~
The profit in the cooperative house is
not the mans who superintendent or man
aged the business. He gets salary out
! of it. And the remainder is returned pro
rata in proportion to his individual custom.
1t is clear to every one that it is better
to pay man a salary out of the profits OF a
LARGE business. than to let him have all the
/ profits.-And it is-equally as clear that
/ one Of the two must be done, and that
the larger the business the larger the prot
its in the aggregate, and so the less the
expense to each and likewise the larger
are the profits to each customer.
Everybody believes that house
that gets a large business, gets large
profits. And be it large or small, it
all comes out of the customers, as well as
the actual expenses. The actual expen-
ses, perhaps, can not be reduced. 1t is to
save the profits to customers, by returning
it to them, that is proposed by co-opera-
ton. And that is what it does. There
fore it is the interest of one and all to prac-
tice it by sending all their business to a
cooperative house. And if there is not
already one where you want business
done, do not wait, but establish one, by
hiring man and set him up and send
him all your business. Get everybody
you can to send theirs. Do not try to di-
rect business from one point to another;
let it go where it most conveniently be-
longs.
+ A good writer in Texas, GA Reader,
some time ago, said in communication
something like this: Let brother Max
well solicit business softly in Texas, as we
have the Texas Cooperative Association
at Galveston, and we want to make it a
success" To make it a success is as much
purpose with me as with him any
other good co-operationist, and there are
many of them in Texas. This is the way
to succeed Let that Association, and all
others, nc matter where located, as well
as individuals, who have business to
be done in New Orleans, send it to the
Southwestern Cooperative Association,
and all that Association wants done at
any point where there is cooperative
association, it is its its purpose to send il
to them w. Maxwell