The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-16
WHAT EDITORS SAY
Buying Direct.

The Oklahoma state market commission just organized
under an act of the last legislature seems to be working
out praetea plan or two lheFs msve. w was b. bvnp
and selling Of food and feed products and thereby cut out
few links in the endless chain OF mddemen whom we
all help to max. MANY y es% snd 0f feed but
very doubtful whether all Of the raised in Oka
homa with the exception of wheat oats and cooon WIN 10
than feed the people and the livestock OF okanoa
until another crop around Meanwhile we are all
getting ready to sell through the established
channels and the folks who do not have enough are getting
ready buy what they need through those same estao-
lished channels at twice and thrice the price
Under the direction of the state market commission It
proposed that the folks who have something to sell may
ge, touch with their county farm demonstration agent
The folks who to buy also get in touch with their
local county agent Both county agents will then tell their
troubles to the state market commission and VIII thus get
in touch with each other the ono Knowing farmers who
want TO sell and the other knowing farmers who want TO
buy After this the affair will be turned 10 the two
of farmers themselves and they will proceed to deal
directly with each other.
Iu, TO illustrate the plan let us suppose that farmer
in Po,tawa,ome county has load OF Irish potatoes
to sell One neighborhood in other county raised no
potatoes this year The folks there want to buy potatoes
The retail price the local market $3.50 bnshel The
folks who to buy potatoes get together and decide
that among them ALL they handle carload Then they
hunt up their county agent and tell him about it, and the
county agent tells the state market commission at OKLA
homa City.
| The man in Poawatomie county who has potatoes to
sell also tells his county agent and that agent reports to
the market commission the and address oi that
man This information is then TO the agent from the
buying county lie tells the folks who want the potatoes
and they send one Of their number trip to Poa-
watomie county to this OF potatoes II looks good
he closes the deal right there, paying the Potawaomic
grower the regular wholesale market price the day tho
deal is made; perhaps s. buShel
When this car OF potatoes arrives at destination all the
folks who in the deal to town load up their share
OF the shipment and drive home with the difference between
the wholesale price they paid and the retailers regular price
still in their pockets TO spend for other needu things
Apply the general plan 10 peaches or alfalfa hay o
| any other food or feed YOU want to sell or buy
| Two points should he borne in mind First, at th
selling end il is hardly worth while to try TO sell anythnl
in this way unless YOU have carload of IT, unless yol
can combine with your neghbors to make up car. Sec
ond the buying end il is equally not worth while 10 foo
with anything less than lot shipments for yourself an,
your neighbors Here is especially fine chance io
community clubs or groups Of farmers TO work together
The plan described represents crude piece OF dSthu
ton machinery compared with the elaborate system tina
We generally II won't he quite as easy TO handle a
the telephone and charge system OF ordering peck
'puds But the Of this crude machinery free to III
folks who and il affords chance to begin that pa
e Of cooperative buying and selling that the folks you
community have been talking long about but never quit
got at There's idea here that built especially 70
tarm folks Shall We try it onoe1
y, II You don't know who your county agent is addre'
o letter to County Farm Demonstration Agent and send
to the county town in your county unes, YOU live
IT. Love Delaware, Muskoeee Washita Cimarron Custe
n, alot OF faNnee counties All others OF the seventy
counties IN Oklahoma have such men and Muskogee cour
S Is hunting for good man now-Car Williams In IN
to Oklahoma Farmer Stuckman
y, Short skirts have their di,sdy.n,aV., Tn, navy 4,
patunen rejected woman 'enogtapher the other day h,
cause OF bow legs.-MoAleuer News Capital
of 80 II you would win on, against adverse circumstance,
like rubber ballhe harder you are thrown down II
higher you boune.-Durant Democrat