The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-10

before discussing the other features
of the association.
The association might buy the
farmers goods ia fixed price de-
livered to the motor truck at the roau
on or near the farm, or it might
| handle the produce of the farmer on
commission and charge him fixed
price for bringing his goods to town
| according to the distance. Certainly
the farmer would raise a great deal
more produce if the association Wa,
go to the farm to get it and save the
farmer from going to town to deliver
a DE ok of beans or dozen eggs.
Then, too, the association would save
the farmer many trips to town to get
a pound of coffee, sack of salt or
small piece of machinery. AS it is
today, because of the smallness of the
load and because it generally takes a
farmer all day to go to town, it costs
him from 10 to 100 times as much
to bring what he has to sell to town
than it would cost a company running
motor truck to bring it for him.
Such an association would have no
trouble in getting enough produce to
permit it to ship in large quantities
to the best markets. It's managing
expert would grade and pack the
good so they would bring the best
prices. 1t would have the facilities
to take proper care of the goods be-
fore they are shipped. Its manager
would know where to sell the goods
Ito the best advantage. 1t would be
.ss srsdif 70 market ksttr8Rg 8eRg CsaR&augh 70
4 marketing association would lnsur
tbe farmers of this country, steao
It market at a good price for all the pei
" ishable produce they raise: r..,
1t The stockholders would nave ~
,e trouble in making good dlVloehu y y
10 their stock-therefore 1T is sugges.e
~ to limit the dividends to lo per cen
en- and to divide the surplus earninEs,
l.. fnrn;sb business to the company, pr
or rated according to the amount OF pu
ed mess which each furnishes.
ha II might be argued that sucn
,orketinp association should not
70 nrivately owned but should be orGa
is ;zed by the farmers on coopera''
w., basis If the farmers could get
ar- oetber and organize such an assoc
ar St;on Il would be better than for
e.. EN- to be nrivately owned But 1t
III doubtful whether the farmers Oh I
"'N county are vet ready to cooperate
. that extent. The next best tnlng
49, do then, is to organize a Stoch Z,
~ nany and all farmers who are IN
20 nsted and wish to invest their mo
and in the concern to buy stock. ~
Tn This marketing association snS m
,,nI he organized before planting sea
,r nro- next year, because then the el. 1arn =
iono I would be assured market Tor
,"r3 U rerishable produce and would, Tn IN
+hc fore, plan to raise large guam
- ', nf There would have been little OF
~ 4 hv cotton planted in the county TINS
,nact u D if the producers had been ass
u '. 80 that they could make IN money u
,ots nlanting other crops. The situ'
IL .o will be similar this coming, year.
n., na ;s the time to organize the pro
w WHY in marketing association. If 1t Is
y 'to al IL now the county will never agar
we we at t wholly dependent on cotton as Il
W N been in the past: The money
;e' !, tho =, the produce would come in at all
x, 70 sons while the money from
o1 ,.V W. oomes only in the fall. 1t would
u e' not a diversification of farming 81 e.
. NO county and greater prosperity IL