The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-29
AID FARMERS TO
POOL SHIPPING
Town People Cooperate TO Gre
ate Service That Is Worth
While.
WHOLE COUNTY is BENEFITED
People Of Mississippi Township Work
ed as a Unit to Solve the Trans
portation Problem--Details CT
the Scheme.

Carroll county. Mississippi, are pull
! Ing together. They learned how last
season in clubbing to snip cars Of
! produce hogs, cattle, poultry, eggs,
! and potatoes. business men in the
| Town financed the shipments at cost
and town people as well as farmers
contributed their bits Of produce. One
season Of cooperation has seen rhe
breaking of the imaginary line sepa-
rating the town and country, with the
result that This county has taken some
significant strides forward.
II began when the county agent Of
fered to help farmers pool their cattle
and hogs into car shipments to large
markets where better prices were oh
tanahle. These shipments were so
successful that the service was ex-
tehded TO poultry and eggs and pota-
Toes.
A Club the Medium.
The Carroll County Prosperity club
is the medium through which the town
dwellers and the farmers work TO-
gethpr for the best interests of both.
The club was organized one day last
.Inhe when the county agent called the
people df the county together at the
courthouse The club has no dues,
nc constitutions or bylaws. II Is a
simple medium through which under
takngs for the good Of the entire.
county are carried on, and It has
proved beneficial in many ways. In
addition to the business gains. which
have been mutual, 1t has resulted in
developing feeling of friendship and
confidence 0rtlboth sides
During the first six months Of last
year Carroll county shipped co-opera-
lively $211S6.33 worth OF produce dI-
vided as follows: Hogs. $15,542 cattle.
$1567 30; poultry and eggs. $4.464.74,
and potatoes. Sa.1G2 As Carroll coun-
ty makes no claim to large livestock
industry these amounts are the more
creditahle. For example, the hogs
shipped were all 'picked.up' hogs
the county had made no effort hereto
fore to grow hogs except for home
use Encouraged by the cooperative
shipping plan and realizing the war
needs for more pork, Carroll county is
now making great effort to increase
Its production OF these animals.
One Per Cent For Expenses.
Shipments are made comparatively,
the total expenses being deducted
from the total receipts and the bal
ance divided among the shippers nc-
corling to the number of pounds of
produce contributed Money contrib
ufed 0y the business men of Carroll
ton for expenses was sufficient for
Sine, but Il later arrangement proyid
ed that per cent Of the receipts on
all shipments should be deducted for
expenses. Under their arrangement
the Carroll County Prosperity club
uas able to report balance to its
credit at the middle OF last season
and so chicken coops and 400 egg
cases paid for.
Poultry and egg shipments have
been widely popular, as nearly every
ono in the county produces more or
less poultry. The details of how the
people Of Carroll county made up CO.
operative carlots of poultry and eggs
anG how they are enabled thereby to
receive higher prices forms another
story sv'ich Win be MI later In these
columns.