The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-05-25
HELP FOR THE POOR farmer
Unless He Sells More Than He Bun
He viii Never Be independents
Scientific Marketing Urged.

nor Of the smallest country weeks h
is now and has for a Iona 3
time. been advising the farmers how Z
TO increase production, You can nun
her on the fingers Of one hand thOsG
who have, persistently and with Ii q
telligence, influential. non-farsains
Americans who have given deYotiou
and thought to showing the farmer til
imperative need of scientific market
ing or distribution. Yet II Is prob 1
able that the task of getting the prp
ducts of the soil upon the market d
. reasonable manner and at n till
price, is more intricate and almost Ii
important as the task Of productlm
itself.
The most inferior sort Of farna
can bring forth some kind Of crorp
With the constant chorus regardlag I
scientific agriculture and intensH
methods, the reclamation Of the dess /
and the draining Of swamp lands III /
probability that the country will m
ont Of food in the immediate futurehF
not an alarming one. But what y
| enough to make a thoughtful man sta
and grieve, Is the fashion In Whiehhs :
American farmer robs himself yea
after year by slipshod methods q dk /
posing Of his output.
tits q conservative estimate that u
the farmers of this country gos y
getler In a national selling plan, hgI
would save to themselves three orion
hundred million dollars . year. 4 u
! is now, they forfeit that amount 'e y
perhaps larger one, BY narketlllI
absolutely without system o. rhymsal
reason.
We all agree that the trusts bal
been guilty of injustice to the Anal Il
can people. But the trusts can q
least teach us one lesson-and tnI
n IL the everlasting value and need q
t organization and science IN magkeuaI|
How many dividends, for instance, "
t. YOU suppose Standard OIL, Or the lt
n ted States steel corporation, @ l
American Tobacco company, o. az
IF other Of them, could declare Y Tug
Or n,aced their products upon the marc
In the haphazard manner obserVeaa
the American farmers?
>, So important is the selling enc %
III sidered by every form OF Arllenal
business whether corporate q ~
at, yidual, large or small, that even 5 5nal
time and brains Is spent upon Y 1h'
the producing end, or the Du5lns y \
# the cheapest little factory y Y
ed smallest little town placed its ots !.
'ry az the farmer does his, there WY gE1
ed. ba another applicant for banEfa1s
as IN short order. The present ssas
we of agricultural marketing u AllsEa
lid & IKE nothing SO much as q 1Taaaaa '
5of GUS department store, with eVs1I|s
lily in It ! customer will buy, ana y
did not q single clerk to wait g !
IT. customers. It is like those fsea
ted rants called s'cafeterias where =
all, man comes in and waits upon nns
ecu Is ii any wonder that with q wy
di- like this the farmer cheats a .1,I
low yearly out of millions q iesl'la4
lolo profits? 49,. H.,
i've. some of the brethren declare sas'
,675 perfectly willing to co-operase I |,
135, can lust find a system. WV
b is your soul, we have more pisus -
,135 systems than a chicken has feau'
pee We've tried the joint-stock any
luch purely cooperate agency. View "
now scorea of other schemes sonaal4
see At some time, on big and little y Y
ma Il isn't the plan or the sysssa w
cot lack. It's the deternina1loh -
quit ability to get together On sons
and big feasible National system ], !
ask, producing farmer a cog n glsa'
debt selling machine, and with " 4
wing enough and broad enough ano =
pay Grated enough at the head g 8
,oing machine rightly. ...,,.s
This is an age OF concsns o., y
that ova~v industry save that q v II
rely. ture is obeying that law. q, !
1t to agriculture makes up ana :. - 1,
,eans same method-the twentieth y
Kings method-we're going to keep g
have Inc for and supporting eseu {.
with. bination under the sun sas'r
olack own. Nm II
they II Ia primary ruie ~ ~. 81
9 not ness and common sense s sa,Is /
really man buys more than he ., se y i
any never be Independent. w. I'll. II
with n New - - the farmer more aga l'.l
crops to any other class, for &c y s,l Y
Iapted son that the farmer-or n0 - l,
) that especially in the south-,saa ~ !
1t one on their own SOIL nos 80 .osh
wherewith to bring home s = !
ema1n wen the food for which ns ! ~ s.
, been inr other men to produce IN II,
One ing Th usr will be some saefl 10y
ensive gurrendering OF alisssf ,a-dn
home rights" lessening Of ta u t s.asI
raise ras OF which the fsl ! !
YOUR p tead N any effective plan z 81
reduce ing, Other industries !. -. =,
own and bow down Deione . as,,naa i
!, plant farmer does, ne WIZ ss 80 obbaa
ur own q disadvantage with every s.
surplus In the country III FIJI
Be sure want you to poEusl .ao,,sll,
all OF carefully and conssIo ,-,no it'd