The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-19

there were operative elevators had
averaged 3 cents a bushel more dur
ing the past two years than it had
been in towns where there was no 60
q operative competition
EleYator Margin Too High.
MrsWilliams declared That the dy
crage actual cost Of hancang wheat
70 tbe middlenan was cents d bush
el' Whereas the margin on which most
Of them do business is from c TO 10
( censss "The proper cooperative apir-
it hhd a good manager is all that i,
neceHary TO cooperative marN6tihR"
Mr. Williams declared However. he
said that there could be little co -Op =
orative handling Of products unless
the farmers were owners Of the land
on which they lived. THAT is the rea
SON" he said "why co. opefal.re
/ marketing Of cotton usually fails
Such a part Of the cotton raisers are
tenants who move from neighborhood
to nelghborhood year after year
Farmer Often Robbed,
| w d IIargrayes told of his expert
! ence in Grady county, helping farm
ers get a better price for their pro
ducts. - found cotton men paying
$40 a ton for seed when il was wortl
much more" he said. q made ar
rangements to buy seed and announc.
ed that ! would pay SIG ton. then
bought ten loads at $l650 ana the
seed men raised their price to ST.,
what it was worth"
/ He told Of other experiences he hac
had in offering the market price for
corn and MELONS when commission
men refused to pay what the products
We're worth, Il found he said, "that
the local prices did not go up cents
IA bushel on corn when it took that
raise in Kansas City and Chicago but
that the local price was always af-
fected by "A fall in the market
But middlemen are not men we
should either fight or say hard things
against he said They are only good
business men The thing for the
farmer to do is to quit letting tho
other fellow handle his business, tend
TO it himself and reap the profits.e
Can Ship Own Livestock.
George Bishop of the Oklahoma
Farmer stockhisn, outlined a system
by which the iatIher could market his
own livestocAl Ile declared that the
thing most needed was little Study
on the part OF the farmer as to wba,
his stuff was really worth, more
careful study OF the markets, and (
study of the actual cost of getting
stock from his own town to the near
est center ~ y u
"Co-operative marketing of livestock
is possible only where shipments cal
be made as often as once a week." he
declared. He thought the tendency
now to be for each farmer to finish
a few head of stock himself and sell il
by the point instead of by the head
to some cattle man.
Need More Practical Studies.
George Wilson of the A & NJ college
dwclt at length upon the necessity
for more practical work in the rura
school, more arithmetic problems that
had for their subjects corn and cot
ton and pigs rather than the things
which farm boys and girls never have
anything to do with He spoke of the
great work now being done by the
little army of county demonstration
agents, both men aud women, and o
plans for the further development O
this work.
DR. Adams, whose work on the mar
kotng of perishable farm products
has just been published, declared that
the extension Of co operation should
be supplemented by government reg
Iulation, in which, he declared that the
extension of co-operation should be
supplemented by government regula
tion in which he declared. the United
States was far behind other nations OF
the world.
Score Of Lawmakers Attend.
The following members of the state
legislature We're registered during the