Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-01-26
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-Detalls OF
the Scheme.

Town people and farmers down In
Carroll county, Mississippi, are pull
ing together. They learned how last
season in clubbing to ship 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 the
breaking of the imaginary line sepa-
rating the town and country, with the
result that this county has taken some
significant strides forward. =
1t 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 OBJ
tainable. These shipments were so
successful that the service was ex-
tended to poultry and eggs and pota-
toes.
A Club the Medium.
The Carroll County Prosperity club
Is the medium through which the town
jewellers and the farmers work to-
gether for the best interests Of both.
The club was organized one day last
June when the county agent called the
people of the county together at the
courthouse. The club has no dues,
no constitution, or bylaws. It is a
simple medium through which under
takings for the good Of the entire
county are carried on, and 1t has
proved beneficial In many ways. In
addition to the business gains, which
have been mutual, 1t has resulted in
developing a feeling Of friendship and
confidence on both sides.
During the first six months of last
year. Carroll county shipped co-opera-
lively $27, 1868 worth of produce, d.
vided as follows: Hogs, $15,542 cattle,
S1,567.59; poultry and eggs, $4464,74,
and potatoes, $5,162. AS Carroll coun-
ty makes no claim to a large livestock
industry, these amounts are the more
creditable. 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 a 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 ac-
cording to the number Of pounds Of
produce contributed. Money contrib
uted by the business men of Carroll
ton for expenses was sufficient for a
time but later arrangement provid-
ed that l per cent Of the receipts on
all shipments should be deducted for
expenses. Under their arrangement
the Carroll County Prosperity club
Tas able to report a balance to its
crldit at the middle of last season
snd so chicken coops and 400 egg
eases paid for.
Poultry and egg shipments have
been widely popular, as nearly every
one 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
and how they are enabled thereby to
receive higher prices forms another
story which will be told later an these
columns
That improved roads would benefit
our country school system there would
seem to be no doubt. Good roads