Lower coast gazette., 1914-08-22
SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1914
Farmers Organizations.

Farmers Organizations. gr
/, any last issue our readers will have not, IN
communication. from our distinguished or
$3.50 IN the I'd. ward, Judge Henry Mesei. III
- Mover has had q long experience 10 ue III
nordon;ng business and unquesuonaDs 81
'as.as concerning matters with when ne ls Gu Z
WI, foo;l;ar In this journal we nave earn .
~ onaoovored to solve the problem OF 1ar"- !
~, ,raon;zations. The U. S. government q q
- more ago sent a commission 70 EUROPE \
yea oe,l,v investigate the matter OF farmers s
organizations, more particularly WIN ."e .'.,a :
of r,omoting farmers credits 50 tha' o.es =
ava;, If money credits at low rates u
whenever the securities they offered were 'o"-
petent. concentrations.
g. 90 wa in plaouemines parish are concern
Cd still remain u~nsolved, whether as app"eu rho
sa,r, credits or marketing the product. lio
..t+or however will be solved in some way o"e
IS those DAYS and it is by having just SUCH ~
..,,;nar+ communications as this from Juoge
Viewer to give us food for thought 1ha' w. '''
possibly finally solve the problems.
The new e colonies on the Rio GRANGE arc plo
a,,c;no onions. and some other crops py 'ne 90
Issasasd tho situation seemed very pronl's'ns'
;,mt whv thew have failed, as is referred "os
I.aoa Mover. we have not yet learned. Inc
W. orgsn;zations to which he refers we pre-
49, howe failed for some similar causes.
RI. fact Of the matter is that say wnat We
I. abont our strong financial SITUATION anu
hoast az we may about the enormous crops ela'
49, L.va + tho western states and the general
l. strong situation Of the whole country 'ne.e
las been a severe depression Throughout ~
entire country and in fact the same oepress'oa
- cold 70 have been prevailing in Europe before
- recant war announcements and POSSIBLY Tue
Low nr;ces for produce and the resulting u's-
,.n.,aoement has led to the breaking up OF 1hese
: r,ar;yations that we had hoped would lay such
s,,lsra for their " action as would peih'l.luf-
,her. organizations Of the Same klnd. -.
a,,aoe Never in the closing portions OF ms
,.,tor seems to shadow out a grading board tna'
should receive at some convenient slippn !.
mint all Of the local produce and then neise ,
into one common mass, the sales being oy gSaot
- i done with wheat, and the exact proper
lions Of every mans interest in the results =
h;gh nr;cese or low prices could regularly o
Ao,red out every day mathen. aticaAy. PossIE
Judge Meyer has suggested the very n1e''ou !
which such selling organizations can &c llaus
s,,ccesaL Wheat is examined, graded, throw
;,4o an elevator with other wheat OF the sal
erode and becomes part Of the elevator stoc!
Il several hundred hampers Of lettuce snou,
reachrth grading station perhaps eney 'ou
~ - GRADED that it would be established
,s,,nce Is to Just how many OF the, 4 . ana
Grades were in the lots received and VINO we
aneSr owners and if 10 packages Of 4 grace
"a packages Of the A grade were sold the p
ceeds Of those 20 packages would be d:s'r'Du'
~ The owners Of all Of the 4 grade tfat gay
exact proportion.
Anv wav the present methods seem Inc
cient. Can we not produce some elnc'en'' -
Satisfactory way Of doing 9 wholesale push
i these commodities that shah De economic
successful! Judge Meyer suggests. 1ha'
three states, Louisiana, Texas and fiorioa'
RE chief producers Of the vegetables unoel !
.;dorat;on and we infer that he means that :
49,, arr;ve on the market at exactly the =
s;,,a and therefore may not be in direct con
,;t;on With each other in the greas YES
n,arkets. Ifs this be . fact 1t woulo iAs'
aradn,o and selling organization N the =
th.t for the time being would have no go
tition.
We believe that our truck gardeners
intelligence enough and that out q TINS ,
that now prevails we ought 70 BE able g ,
some rule 81 order that would be econom
.@c;ent. Won't Judge Meyer favor "
further discussion and we would AK o1n'
our readers also to favor W and Jet ~ see
,.can',t evolve some satisfactory plan TOT .af
organizations.
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