Barton County democrat., 1908-08-07

Correct system OF Marketing.
The Farmers Onion seeks to teach
the farmers the slenoe q cooperative.
ly marketing tie products Of Their
farms and the benefits Of cooperative
marketing over that x competitive
marketing or street. psddiing.
While 1t is true We have taught our
selves that competitive marketing was
proper and right. and have been taugh,
this BY our commercial friends, yet
while We were competitivsly marke :
ing our farm products, our commerce.; /
friends were practicing cooperative
marketing Of their goods.
They having learned that we're they
to force their goods upon the world )
markets (as the farmer has his prod.
ucts), having no regard for the world !
demands nor the prices offered, selling
at any old price and within about
three months all Of the goods neces-
sary for the world to consume in
twelve, would work havoc to their bus.
mess. The world would take advan.
tage Of such foolish marketing and
bid prices down to such q low point
that there would be no profit left for
them. and they would be forced to
quit the business.
But the farmer will force upon the
market, within about three months, a
crop that 1t takes himself and family
twelve months to make and gather
and the world almost twelve months lC
consume, having no regard for the
worlds demands nor the prices Offer
cd.
He goes to market single handed
does not belong to any business or
ganization, does not know what the
rest Of the farming world is going Il
DO as regards the pricing and selling
OF farm products, he has no system
nc plans, no conception Of scientifi,
business methods. but pours his prod
ucts in single handed way upon tn,
organized speculative, world, vainl.
hoping that the organized speculate
will pay him sufficient prices that will
give him something to exist upon Will,
making another crop for these organ
lied spectators to gamble on. N,
class of business could market In sucI
slipshod manner and even exist.
But the old farmer living next t
nature can allow himself to be sleeke,
out of his years work and the mex
year nature comes to his relief again
Quite different with the commercia
world. Even the manufacture
would not think Of marketing his good
in such reckless competitive way.
| Come, let's look into the system @
marketing as in use by the manufal
turing and commercial world:
First, the manufacturer, instead &
throwing his goods upon a depresse
market in a reckless, slipshod, con
petitive manner, places them in
warehouse, preparing to hold for
| price that will give him a profit, an
knowing as he does that ne only wa
by which he can hope 10 get thes
! prices is by cooperating with ever
other manufacturer, therefore he b
comes a member Of the Manufactu
ing Association, and through this a
sociation they are able to place mi
imum price on the goods. and with Il
goods prole:ly varehou. ID they al
able to force the consuming world
pay them their psfce; and the jobb'
or wholesaler are forced 10 pay the
, their price, and they in turn. havir
had no voice in psiong the goods wht
they bought them. are forced to pri
, their goods as such prices as will gil
them a profit; henoe they can not {
. ford to rush into the worlds marke
| with their goods and sell at any o
5 price as does the farmer, but are fol
3 cd to cooperate n pricing their gooC
. So they take ~ goods and pla
J. them in a store Asuse (as 1t is calle
which is nothing but a goods wal
> house, and they belong to the Nj
camille Associative. through whi
they are able to Dstes uniform or mi
mum prices, aaA with the goods
!. !, the warehouses IAsy are able to he
: the goods away hom the world un
4 the world will pay their prices. Th
y when the retailer goes to buy goo
: he has to pay ~ wholesalers prit
q and when the retailer gets them,
!. stead of peddliAg them out at any
10 price Gas the fnGmsr does his pr
10 ucts) he places I'm In his store
q, warehouse, preDaTstory to hold
p them for a prieA And the major
10 of these gentlem0 belong to the N
10 camille Associates and with the got
% properly warehousd they are able
10 price and hold Or that price, Il
u forcing you and he as consumers
10 pay that price.
Now, what The union wants to Dc
to teach the farm9s this scientific