The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-14

hunt the market This is exempli- fled by the statement of MT. Whaley that buyers find the,r way to Gull man almost before shipping time. Only in cases where markets not represented by buyers afford better inducements to sell are cars ever consigned to eastern or southern points to be diverted m transit when the sale is made by wire.
 This association does strict cash business. If an unknown buyer wants to purchase car of Cullman county products he must wire the money to secure the car number and have the shipment diverted to him.
 Cincinnati, Birmingham. Nashville and even points as far north as are said to be large buyers of Gull man strawberries and sweet pota- toes, two of the principal crops grown for the market in that sec ton.
 Cullman county ships annually about 1% cars of sweet potatoes. There are over 30 sweet potato cur ing houses in the county which en- ables them to ship gradually and take advantage of market conditions. They begin to ship sweet potatoes as early as the latter part of July and sell on through the winter up until about April 1. The potato in- dustry is developing rapidly and each year shows an increase in acre. age. One car of sweet potatoes sold by the association last year brought $500.
 About 50 cars of strawberries are shipped by the association every year. They begin shipping about May and ship until August l. The strawberry industry has been handi- capped of late by the shortage of labor used as pickers, but nearly every farmer we interviewed re- ported that the financial yield from an acre of strawberries was quite high.
 
 of the associations success, Man. ager Whaley remarked: Sticking together and selling honestly graded stuff is all. We haven't any mo- nopoly on strawberries or potatoes here. Any county in the state can do as well if they'll establish the two departments-product and sales-as we have done.'
 Compare a county like Cullman with one struggling with poor mar keting conditions and one can ob- serve the difference in the appear ance of the farms, the towns and the people. Any county in Alabama can do as well as Cullman This plan would not only apply to the marketing of strawberries and sweet potatoes, but to any other farm com modity. There are business men In every Alabama town that are cap sble of doing what MT. Whaley has done. One ought to be well paid for his efforts along this line and be rendering valuable service to his community at the same time
 Agriculture is being greatly stinu lated by many organized activities One of the most useful agencies is tn, Birmingham committee on agricul- ture and marketing and of which Johr H. Frye is chairman and T. Park Hay, Jr., is general secretary.
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 Every male citizen of Switzerland, able to carry gun, is a potential soldier This is the chief reason why Switzer. land maintained her neutrality during the world war-preparedness.
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 Leading Huns are applying epithets tt the allies they never dreamed of using ir connection with the sinking of the Lusi tania, the sack of Louvain or the de struction of Rheims.
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 It's a hard matter for the pennies tt take care of themselves these days when they are helping to carry the bur den of war taxes on smokes" and sof drinks.
 Discontented bolshevik soldiers are re ported to have drowned Trotzky's sec <etary. This should cause Leon to dt some deep thinking on his own account
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 Even if Henry Ford fails to win hi libel suit against the Chicago Tribune he will be in a position to pay off thu employees of the Dearborn Independent as * Hs The allies take the stand that ther' is no room for argument about the peac, treaty. In the course of time this idle; will penetrate the Teutons' thick skulls. .x # # New Yorks police department has an nounced a reward for the capture o May Day bomb plotters. That's the las resort. Oh for Sherlock Holmes. * # * Don't worry because your nickels an, dimes won't go as far as they used to Consider the purchasing power of tn German mark.
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