Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-08
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A STATE MARKET BUREAU
Commissioner Watson Working on
Plan.

Commissioner Watson Working on
Anderson Daily Mail.
The chamber Of commerce of An
derson wishes the farmers of the
county to make daily use Of the big
black boards to tell the people of the
city Of garden truck or other produce
for sale. Commissioner. Z. J. Wat
son was greatly pleased with this
plan and Is recommending its adop-
ton everywhere as will be seen from
the following article given out from
his office recently accompanied by
half-tone cuts illustrating the black
boards:
Commissioner Watson of the de-
partment of agriculture, announced
that he hoped within the next week
to make complete announcement as
to the perfection Of the organization
of the new bureau of marketing Of
the state department of agriculture
commerce and industries. The idea
of the new bureau will be to let ev-
cry man in the state of South Caro-
lima who wants to buy something and
every man who has anything to sell
in the way Of products Of the farm
or related to the farm, get the bene-
fit Immediately Of the channel of
trade that the state will afford.
Practical Plan.
In talking about the matter, Mr..
Watson said:
"All over the United States this
problem Of marketing Is being dis
cussed theoretically but practical
ly every effort have seen has been
based too much upon generalities.
General market Information doesn't
amount to much. What John Jones
living in the upper edge Of Pickens
county wants to know II he has a
surplus Of hay or oats or eggs that
he can't sell in his own community
is, who wants to buy those very
things in a distant community. He
wants to know the mans name and
he wants to know just exactly how
much of a commodity a man wants,
and what is more, he wants to know
all this right away. And so the man
at the other end wants to know
where and from what individual he
can buy what he wants and exactly
what 1t is going to cost him. We
had a striking case the other day: A
man in the Piedmont had been liter
ally wasting large quantities Of but
termilk, there was a man away down
on the coast who had a great demand
for buttermilk; today the man who
was throwing his buttermilk away, Is
getting 40 cents q gallon for 1t deliv-
cred at his own station in the Pied
mont and the man on the coast Is get
ting what he wants.
I'VE have very nearly completed
all the arrangements for the inau-
guration of our bureau of marketing,
which / am going to try to make the
most practical thing of its kind In
this country. It will be run on just
as sound business principles as any
department store in New York, in
other words, on a complete system.
These card forms that you see here
are to be used; the process will be
something like this: A man writes to
us that he has such and such guam
tity of a given commodity to sell and
quotes his price, which can not be
changed when listed here for per-
iod of ten days from the date OF his
notice. We notify him OF his regis
tration. Another man writes that he
wants such and such a quantity OF
the same commodity. A card form
gives each Of the two the others ad-
dress and the information that they
want. II they complete the transac-
tion, then the man who makes the
sale reports the sale to this office on
prepared post card form and the
commodity that he has listed here Is
eliminated from our list. brief
glance at the card form will indicate
to the public mind how automatical-
ly the system will work.
Give information.
"The bureau of marketing, OF
course, does not undertake to make
any guarantee of the sale, 1t merely
undertakes to list the information
and to become a clearing house for
information between buyers and sell
ers of agricultural commodities.
While, primarily, 1t is desired that in
dividual producers and consumers
avail themselves to the fullest OF the
opportunity offered, this in no sense
precludes merchants in towns and
cities from availing themselves OF
the opportunity offered to secure
first-class product fresh and pure, d.
rect from the farm. There Is no rea-
son, for instance, why merchants
selling OTIS or hay should not avail
themselves of this channel and Sc
cure for market purposes supplies or
fresh home grown goods instead OF
buying sulphureted oats brought
away across the continent lIoHi leA-
as, and mouldy hay brought away
from the far west, and so with a
thousand other things Notably. the
immense stocks of canned goods now
brought from the west and the east
could to the advantage Of everybody
and to the cause of pure food, be
supplemented by the wholesome home
canned goods put up by the thous-
ands of girls Of our state who are
members of the Tomato clubs. Take,
for instance. the demand for cream In
the ice cream parlors operated
throughout the state and the lack of
market for cream in the dairies that
scores of men in the country are en-
deavoring to establish. In a word,
this whole thing looks to the conduct
of business in the state Of South car
olina on a fair economic basis and
with a greater profit to everybody
concerned than most people have ever
dreamed Of.
Anderson Plan.