The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-06
TRUCK FARMERS MEET
TO DISCUSS SHIPPING
Movement On Foot to Organize All of
the Southern States.

Atlanta, Ca, March 6.-With thu
Georgia Fruit Exchange of this city a:
nucleus, the fruit, vegetable and mel
on growers of the entire South are or
ganizing, adopting the shipping plar
of the Georgia Exchange, and working
in cooperation with it for better ia
cilities, prevention of the gluting Of
markets, and consequent better prices.
The growers of Florida, Oklohoma
Texas, Tennessee and South Carolina
have either already organized or have
plans OF this kind under way. 1t is
very likely that the Georgia Exchange
will act directly with the Florida ship
pers, and will handle their ship
ments for them. This can be done
easily, because the peach season in
Georgia lasts but short time, and the
orange and vegetable shipments of
Florida do not conflict with the peach
shipments. This would have the eff
feet of keeping the full organization
of the Georgia Exchange active the
year round, instead of only during
the shipping season.
The organization of the Georgia Elk
change encouraged the growers of 9th
er states to organize, and all are using
the same plan. The Oklahoma State
Fruit Growers Association, of which
Ed E. Blake is secretary met in Ell
Reno on February 81, and organized.
The Texas peach growers have also
organized. They wrote the Georgia
Exchange for particulars about its or
ganization, and adopted them almost
without change. The Texas growers
have promised to cooperate with
the Georgia growers. The former sup
ply mainly the western markets. The
peach crop in the vicinity of Morrill,,
Texas, is reported so per cent killed.
The Tullahoma, Tenn, growers have
written the Georgia Exchange for their
plan of organization, and announce
that they will adopt it. G A. Bar
rett, special, representative of the
Georgia Exchang has met with the
growers of Cleveland, Tenn. He ar
ranged meeting, which President
Bagley, of the Exchange will address.
The Logan County Fruit Growers
Association of Guthrie. Okla, has al
so written the Exchange here for its
plan of organization, which it will
adopt.
d. P. Coogler, representing the can't
aloupe growers of Oglethorpe. Ga, has
written the Exchange here that the
cantaloupe men want to join it and
get the benefit of it's organization.
The leading South Carolina peach
growers have already joined the Georg-
ia Exchange.
While many of the out-of-the-State
growers will be unable, because of
their distance away, or other reasons,
to ship directly through the Georgia
Exchange, the latter will gladly ex-
plain its plan Of operation and lend
its cooperation
In the case of the Florida shippers,
the cooperation is proposed to be di.
rect. Neither orange nor vegetable
shipments, as explained above, conflict
with peaches. Manager 1. M. Fleming
OF the Georgia Exchange, who was
formerly Southeastern Agent of the
Armour Car Lines has handled the
Florida shipments before, and is al
ready familiar with their markets and
transportation problems. He would
be perfectly at home handling their
shipments through the Exchange.
President H. G. Bagley, of the
Georgia Fruit Exchange, announces
that he will be glad to mail his organ
ization plan to any grower of fruit
or vegetables who is interested in
cooperation.
1T must be understood at the out
set" he said that our plan is not
trust, and has no radical or Social
istic tendencies. So far from bene-
fitting the grower alone, it is pro-
lection for the commission men, and
has been endorsed by most of the
leading members of the National Lea
que of Commission Merchants. The
railroads are heartily in sympathy
with 1t, and the growers themselves
or at least So per cent. of them in
Georgia-have shown their faith by
pledging to ship through the Exchange
and by subscribing to its stock.