Lower coast gazette., 1914-08-15
Concerning Farmers Organlza-
tons.

lions.
Editor Lower Coast Gazette:
Nowadays when one opens . paper.
it may be . farm paper. . daily, q
weekly or q magazine, one is sure to
see something about farmers or truck.
ers organisations. Many psople seem
to think that for farmers to organize
is the cure for oil evils. All one has to
do is to plant his crop and organize and
get rich. Now last year the cabbage
crop was short in the west and every
one in the south, including the writer,
went into cabbage. and last spring
every part Of the country was filed
with cabbage. The writer had about
5000 crates and lost about 1900 crates
in the field Is BY shipping it would have
taken some cash money to pay freight,
and don't believe any organization
could have raised the price any.
Nov, MI. Editor, let u get 1t some
facts. Tho Texas Onion Growers AS
s~ociation has been organized for 8 or
10 years and today if they want to
plant . crop Of onions next winter they
have 70 ask the banker whether they
can do 20 OF not. The Strawberry
Growers Association in Louisiana had
trouble to hold together. The man
who was getting $500 per year a.
manager just had enough votes to keep
1t . going concern. Now the news
comes that the Rio Grands and Coast
Association Of Southern Texas is In
trouble. Then there is the N. @. Gar
dener's and Shippers Association, right
in the city Of New Orleans is going to
pieces. They used to ships or 6 cara
and now they ship ], or 4 . week. If
you get down to facts in regard to
those who are the promoters Of these
organizations you will find that most Of
them do 80 from selfish interests other
than farming. Some Of them want to
get q big fat salary, some want to sell
land and so on. The Florida Orange
Exchange has been in existence . long
time and ! saw by the report that they
handled only q per eentsof the whole
crop. "a,
Il is altogether impracacabie to have
Association on the Losesr Coast un-
less we could have a central loading
in the city Of New Orleans. A
loading station il needed SO %
to have m inspsetsr, 10 that when .
wants to buy a car Of stuff
the association can guarantee the
Some Is years ago there was ergsn-
lied in the State Of Ohio. the American
Society. I ssnt my dollar
and received my button; 1t:got to be
big thing but tho man who was at
the head was printing = farm paper
and advertised the society Ii his paper.
and as he was the president secretary
and treasurer he paid himself very
nicely and Of course he ms making too
much money. SO the soeiety split up
and I believe they are still fighting
among themselves for tie other mans
Now, Mr.. Editor, / .haye N idea but
/ think ittianpessib,s. Teers ara three
states that supply the north with vege-
tables in winter, Texas, Florida and
If we could have county
organisations and one. state urganiza-
hon ia each state and work together
hat would do some good Is We would
tot al ship to one market snd have
hat overloaded and other markets
bare. know, MI. Editor. you hsve
yivsn this your thought, but il doea not
work out right in practice. a.
'aid before the land s~pssdl.tor. the r.
R. and the man who wauts to come in
N the overhead charges are mostly
he ones who boom these orgsniza-
ions. I
Respectfully, |,
H. MEYER,