Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-06-05
FARMERS GREATLY AIDED
BY STOCK COMPANIES
Market Bureau of Department
of Agriculture Making
Good Progress

Gratifying progress is being made by
the market bureau of the state depart
ment of agriculture in the organization
Of local stock companies in the various
counties to handle the food crops rails
ca Dy the farmers.
One of the latest of these organiza-
tions was at LAGRANGE. where a company
was formed last week with a capital
stock of $25, 200, and where steps already
have been taken toward immediate con-
struction of a warehouse.
j. f. Dunson, Jr.. was elected presi-
dent of the company at LAGRANGE and
Ely r. Galloway was elected secretary
Citizens throughout TrOup county sub
scrlbed to stock and pledged their sup
port to make the enterprise a complete
success
Generally speaking. farmers raise food
crops in small quantities. That is to
say. in less than carload lots. They
have no facilities for preparing food
products for market No local facilities
are available. Generally speaking there
is no cash market for the sale of their
food products. Hence they cannot ship
their products and cannot sell them.
To meet this situation. the market
bureau of the agricultural department.
headed by L. B. Jackson, is organizing
COMPANIES III IIi0 S6N-
eral counties of the state. The proce-
dure Is like this:
A stock company is formed. 1t builds
a warehouse to store food crops, and
guarantees the farmers cash market
for their food crops. This warehouse is
equipped with a machine for shocking
and Smelling corn, with facilities for
curing and storing potatoes, with ma
chine for grinding velvet beans into
meal and with a cannery. The
warehouse buys food crops from farm
ers in any quantity, from wheelbarrow
load to a wagon load, and pays them
cash. The products bought from farm
ers are prepared for market and shipped
out from time to time TO the consuming
centers where the best prices can be had.
Advantages of such a plan are ap-
parent. 1t enables a farmer to sell a
wagon load of potatoes and get cash for
them the same as he sells bale of
cotton. 1t enables him to sell his corn
his velvet beans, his vegetables and fruit
for canning.
Without such plan, crop diversified
ton in Georgia can never become an ac-
complished fact; for while farmers may
appreciate the arguments in favor of d.
versication, and may concur in them.
he cannot afford to raise food crops
which he cannot sell or ship.
When the market bureau plan has been
completed, there will be in the agricul-
tural department, in ATLANTA, an exchange
where prices in the consuming markets
are posted from day to day, and where
consuming market conditions are kept
,on record. so that the bureau will be able
TO furnish immediate information every
day to the local warehouse companies.
telling them where to ship and what
prices can be had.
Among the other county seats besides
Lagrange in which market-warehouse
companies have been organized are
Rome Albany, Cordele, Dublin, Dallas
and Eastman.
mess men are SHRDL SHRDL SHR
Farmers merchants. bankers and
business men are cooperating with great
enthusiasm in the organization of the
companies. as they realize that such
a plan is the only practical means of
insuring increased food crop production
in Georgia. which is so vitality necessary
TO the successful conduct of the war.