The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-09

of the Alabama Division of the Farm
 CTS Educational and Co-operative Un- ion. f'is to teach the farmers to sell i what they raise to the best advantage and to buy what they need to the best l advantage. And of the two we con slider buying the most important. We hope to see the day inaugurated when the farmer, the man who has cotton ! to sell, will not. have to go to a black
 board in a bucket shop to see what cotton is worth, but the man who wants to buy 1t will have to go to the i warehouse and see what price Is chalked up on the door,"
 The Planners Union is by no means
 identical with, Inc Southern Cotton
 Growers Association. of which liar vie Jordan Is President. In fact there | Is rivalry and friction between the | two Inc two are similar in only one | particular--both want to hold cotton
 for a higher. price--but each organiza-
 ton wants to held It in a different way.
 | None In AlOntsOmery County. There Is no Farmers Union ln Mont | gomery county. "The Cotton, Growers
 Association control that county" said
 union man, but we expect to have
 an organization there before long" For no apparent reason the Farmers
 Union Is weak in the Black Belt coun-
 ties of the State. It Is weaker in l South Alabama than 1t is in North Ala
 bama. And of all parts of the State
 it is strongest in tho Northwestern portion.
 The first cooperative movement in augurated in Alabama was the one
 W ,-. has already>.been successful in Texas. the building or controlling of
 are two of these warehouses. In the
 entire State there are no less than for
 ty To these warehouses the union
 man brings his cotton, where, 1t Is
 claimed. he can store 1t at a minimum
 charge. If the union in Alabama
 should assume the proportions it has In l Texas, through the lnstrumentality of
 these warehouses. the union officials
 may know how cotton Is being held
 and may control a considerable part | of 1t as to the time of selling When | two or three of these cooperative
 warehouses have been built in every
 county Of the State. as the union of
 ficials declare they will do, this move ment will be of vital importance to
 cotton men of all sorts.
 Illustrating the proposed co-opera-
 tive work is the industry established | here at Clanton by the local union,
 one of the strongest in the State. The
 union has not only built d great wide | concrete warehouse here, but douD.e | conjunction, and cotton coming in the
 seed in wagons to the doors, is in a | few minutes rolled direct from the gin
 into the warehouse. A part of the
 warehouse is now being used as fer tilizer factory .,hea the State Df-
 vison has begun its cooperative bus l mess work in earnest other parts will
 be used for storage purposes for goods
 until they are needed by the members | of the local union.
 Methods of Business.
 Now as to che business methods of l the Farmers TTnion-for they are of
 the greatest importance. lna Division | has State Business Agent In P. F.. | Parker who has his headquarters like
 the otner State officers at Guin There
 is 0 County Business Agent in every l county in which the union Is organized. | And each local union has BusincSs | Agent These agents are regular ne
 cessary officers like the President or | the Secretary.
 Under the workings of the union