The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-29
Farmers Educational
 -AND- Co-Operative Union Of America
SELLING AGENCY PLAN.
Suggestions of T. p. StiiWell, Lone
 Oak, Texas, in Co-Operator.

Oak, Texas, in Co-Operator.
 will give my idea of how the cot ton situation ought to be handled.
 1. Every town ought to have of it's usual crop.
 2. Every bale ought to go from the gin into the warehouse and be in sured on entry, a receipt given, the cotton graded or classed, and record ed in proper books.
 3. Every warehouse ought to re- port every night. by mail to state headquarters the number of bales re- eeived that day, number shipped out, and the number on hand, giving this data by grades or classes as well as full details; these in turn to be tab ulated and reported to national board of marketing.
 A. The national board of marketing should sell direct to spinners, or rather, take orders for cotton at the price fixed by the growers, neither less nor higher
 5. The order should be turned over to the shipping department and shipment made from the most desirable warehouse or warehouses, taking into consideration freight rates and the storage conditions, whether congested or not.
 6. At stated periods, say weekly, a percentage of cotton sold during that period as compared to the entire amount warehoUsed up to that date should be made, and the proceeds of sales sent to the different warehouses on basis of their receipts always con sidering grades Or classes.
 '. On stated days these warehouses should estimate the pound pr0rata price and pay out to holders of it's certificates or receipts, their prorata of the sales during each period mark ing it on the receipt and ordering il on the books.
 This plan would insure to every member of the union CD, the price set by the union for his cotton. CD, It would destroy any chance for q break to be made in market by some getting scared and rushing the cotton on the market. (3), It would make like prices and treatment to every man whether he had one pale or one hundred. (4), It would put the cotton farmer in position to get money for his cotton every week in the year, and it would enable the man who has to lave money to pay obligations to get the money without sacrificing the price of the labor of his wife and children to the cotton spectators. (5), It would in the end unite every cotton raiser with the union; for the non-union raiser would get less for his cotton, and when convinced he was getting less would hasten to join in with the others.
 Now some may doubt whether it would insure getting the price set by the union. I reply that the only thing needed to insure it is for the majority of the cotton raisers to agree and carry out their plans. Say two-thirds of the cotton raisers go into this plan and set the price at 12 Or 15 cents, then say the crop is 13-million crop. How will we get 15 cents, after last years crop Of less than twelve mil lion has carried the price less than g cents?
 Well, suppose the one-third who are not in the plan rush their cotton on no ic only get s cents or less, then four mil lion bales will soCn be gone and the spinner will have to go to the only place where the staple can be had. No warehouse has any cotton to sell for it has already been placed. No manipulator can get bale from any one for any price except from the national marketing headquarters, and there only at the set price, but what if the crop is more than the world can use? We will keep it in our ware house until needed. We had better sell six million bales at 15 cents and keep three million bales over, than to sell nine million bales for or or 10 cents, for we would get as much money for six million bales at 15 cents as for nine million at 10 cents and have three million bales to sell next year.
 Should my plan meet with favor enough to get into print and should it be worth considering by our leaders, I would be pleased to have it's merits and demerits discussed, and will glad ly enter into a more minute discus sion of the details and working and feasibility of the plan.
 If any attempt is made to carry out my plan it should be started at once.
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