The Green Forest tribune., 1908-07-10
Correct System of Marketinu.

| ldIulS anu tue poneUIS or cooperative marketing over that of competitive marketing or street peddling.
 While it is true we have taught our selves that competitive marketing was proper and right, and have been taught this by our commercial friends, yet while we were competitively market ing our farm products, our commercial friends were practicing cooperative marketing of their goods.
 They having learned that were they to force their goods upon the worlds markets Gas the farmer has his prod ucts), having no regard for the worlds 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 a 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 it takes himself and family twelve months to make and gather and the world almost twelve months to consume, having no regard for the worlds demands nor the prices offer ed
 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 to do as regards the pricing and selling of farm products, he has no system, no plans, no conception of scientific business methods, but pours his prod ucts in single handed way upon the organized speculative world, vainly hoping that the organized speculator will pay him sufficient prices that will | give him something to exist upon while making another crop for these organ ized spectators to gamble on. No class of business could market in such a slipshod manner and even exist. But the old farmer living next to nature can allow himself to be sleeked out of his years work and the next year nature comes to his relief again.
 Quite different with the commercial world. Even the manufacturer would not think of marketing his goods in such a reckless competitive way. Come, let's look into the system of marketing as in use by the manufac- turing and commercial world:
 First, the manufacturer, instead of throwing his goods upon depressed market in a reckless, slipshod, com petitive manner, places them in a warehouse, preparing to hold for price that will give him a profit and knowing as he does that the only way by which he can hope to get these prices is by cooperating with every other manufacturer, therefore he be- comes a member of the Manufactur- ing Association, and through this as sccation they are able to place a min imum price on the goods, and with the goods properly warehoused they are able to force the consuming world to pay them their price; and the jobber or wholesaler are forced to pay them their price, and they in turn, having had no voice in pricng the goods when they bought them, are forced to price their goods as such prices as will give them a profit; hence they can not af- ford to rush into the worlds markets ,Sip ot n price as does the farmer, but are fore ed to cooperate in pricing their goods. So they take the goods and place them in store house Gas it is called) which is nothing but goods ware house, and they belong to the Mer cantile Association, through which they are able to price uniform or mini mum prices, and with the goods in the warehouses they are able to hold the goods away from the world until the world will pay their prices. Thus when the retailer goes to buy goods he has to pay the wholesalers price; and when the retailer gets them, in- stead of peddling them out at any old price Gas the farmer does his prod ucts) he places 'em in his store or warehouse, preparatory to holding them for a price. And the majority of these gentlemen belong to the Mer- cantile Association and with the goods properly warehoused they are able to price and hold for that price, thus forcing you and me as cor 5umers to pay that price.
 Now what the union wants to do is to teach the farmers this scientific sys- | tenn of marketing. Let the mercantile world become our school master. Open | the same system of marketing the products of your farm that the com mercial world has used for ages. It | is no new system, but on old, time | tried, demonstrated success, and will | do for the farmer what it has done for the successful commercial world. So get into the Farmers Union and help | to build and operate these warehouses and become masters of your own prices-Joe F. Edmonson, Assistant State Lecturer for Texas, in Nation l al CoOperator and Farm Journal
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