The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-07
ALABAMA FARMER
ASKSFA RETURNS
FOR HIS PRODUCTS
DiversificatiOn a Good Fea-
ture, But Sale of Com
modities Important
BUY STATE PRODUCE
AND HELP FARMERS
High Praise for Liberal Offer of
Management of Age-Herald in
Fight for Better Markets
and Better Conditions

BY JOHN c. MOSES

by JOHN T.. MUSES.
w. A. Morris, acting head of the
Alabama division of the Farmers Educa-
tional and Cooperative Union of Ameri-
ca during the illness of President o. p.
Ford of Talladega, was in Birmingham
yesterday in conference with Prof l.. N.
Duncan of the executive committee of
the organization. Plans were mapped out
for statewide campaign to uplift the
organization and try to put the member
ship back to $4,000, an old LANDMARKS
Professor Duncan returned to Auburn
last night
Mr.. Morris has held both state and ma
tional honors in the organization and his
sole aim is to put the farmer in touch
with better markets and more ready cash
He was state president of the Farmers
union from 1908 to 1912; state organizer
for total of five years, and chairman of
the national board of directors for seven
years.
Everybody is interested very much in
the farmer in his new attempts to diversi-
fication as well as the farmer himself"
said Mr.. Morris. 80 much. SO good but
the trouble of the tiller, after acting as
advised by experts, manufacturers OF
farming implements and other leaders, is
in finding a market for the products which
he grows.
BUY ALABAMA PRODUCTS
1--WE are impressed with the idea, and
believe that Alabama should stand for
Alabamians and their interests first, and
we have borrowed this idea from the bus
mess interests of the larger cities in th.e
state as they put forth their slogans of
Trade in Birmingham or Trade in Mont
gcmery,' and so forth. We certainly want
and expect them to do as much for us
by buying Alabama products. From my
experience as business agent of the Farm
ers' union, and being associated with past
business agents, find the people of Ala
bama cities eating Colorado and Cali
fornia fruits, New Jersey potatoes and
Colorado onions, while our products de-
cay on our farms for the lack of ready
market. In July l stopped at a farm
house where between 800 and 1000 bushels
of apples lay on the ground spelling. At
other places to IL cents per dozen for
her eggs and 10 and 10 cents for frying
size chickens. In Birmingham today guar
teed eggs We're 40 cents retail and two
pound flyers were quoted at Is cents. Do
you blame us farmers for organizing for
protection? What we want are city pat
rons and retail merchants to ship our
goods to direct.
NOT SEEKING RICHES
I'VE don't want to get rich, but we GER
tainly are tired of having the bulk of our
labor finding a resting place in the mid
dleman's pocket. We have opened whole
sale establishment at 2130 Morris avenue,
under supervision of officials of the
Farmers union, where all farmers in Ala
bama, whether members of our union or
not, can consign any of their products
and expect fair treatment and good prices.
The time is coming when the consuming
public will ask the merchant with whom
they trade if his products were raised
in Alabama Why not this slogan as well
as Made in Birmingham or Trade in
Birmingham
another thing we are vitality inter-
ested in is the educational amendment to
be voted on in November. No organi-
zation or body of men can be more
benefited by the adoption of this
amendment than the Farmers union.
and the farmer should stand as unit
behind the amendment.
in regard to a conference today
with Mr.. Barrett, editor of The Age
Herald. and his daily and weekly staff
and Professor Duncan and myself, I
have nothing but praise for the liberal
Ot1er inauc TO support ana IlSnl Tor
better markets and better conditions
of the farmers. In putting The Weekly
Age Herald subscription rate down to
the low water mark of 25 cents per
year. which does not cover the cost
of white paper alone, the farmer is en-
abled to get the cream of the worlds
farm news, market renorts tele-
graphic events AMI feature page for
each member of the rural family at
giVe-away price. Every farmer should
show his appreciation of this
LIBERAL OFFERS
And on top of this liberal subscrip-
ton offer. Mr.. Barrett has authorized
me in my campaign over the state to
announce from the platform that he
will run free of charge for any farmer.
any day but Sunday. a 25-word adver-
tiscment in the Daily Age-Herald to
help secure patron to whom may be
shipped direct by parcel post or ex-
press products of the farm. such as
eggs, poultry, vegetables. butter or any
other commodity which seeks direct
consumer This is most liberal and a
classified column of this kind would
make good reading for the housewife
or merchant who wished to help the
farmer and at the same time save 25
per cent in cost. And the farmer would
be receiving so per cent more for his
labor. Farmers and their wives should
send in contributed articles to The
Weekly Age-Herald telling of their