The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1920-07-16
ACTUAL BENEFITS
OF ORGANIZATION
OF FARMERS TOLD
Experiments in Cooperative Market
ing in Henry County Establish
es Precedent.
NOW FOR THE COUNTY
COUEEiL OF AGRICULTURE
Meetings Will Be Conducted Over
County by County Agent Pat
rick in Its Interest.
(By ]. A. Patrickl

You have often heard of it, the
Farm Bun eau of the North and West.
This organ Sation is now a reality in
the South. v With us it is the County
Council of Agriculture. This is
very fitting name. Some farmers
are asking what is County Coun-
Gil? 1t is just what the name inn
plies. 1t merely means that the
farmers Of Henry County will advise
each with the other or take council
together for the promotion of all
things pertaining to the best well
fare of all the farmers of the Coun
ty.
A few examples might serve to
drive the idea home. A few years
ago some of the farmers of the coun
ty began to grow potatoes. This
proved fairly profitable industry,
and production soon out1tripped con-
sumption from local standpoint,
and farmers were forced to sell IN
compe .ition with each other, thereby
cutting each Others throats. Some
of the wiser heads, Mr. Hobby, Mr. w
r Jones, ESQ r Riley and Mr. Hen
ry Hancock and numerous others, got
together and organized and found a
market What is the result? The
sweet potato business has grown to
be one of the biggest crops and puts
as much money back to the farmers
as any other crop An the county.
Henry 1 unty1is livestock coun-
ty. Some of the farmers decided
that we had chance to realize more
out of our stock by cooperative mar
keting of livestock. 1t was no
sooner said than done. So another
organization promoted and controlled
by the farmers themselves has grown
up over night In twelve months
this organization has handled $685.
900 worth of livestock and has saved
the farmers OF the county more than
$4,000. This is merely another ben
eft of organization.
We have had striking example
of the results of cooperation in the
sale of our wool. Last year the
farmers pooled 5000 pounds and saw
ed $565. This year We pooled 49,
900 pounds and saved $1,000. Some
of us thought that we were losing
money ON our wool. One farmer
brought in some wool a week or two
after the sale and was offered eigh-
teen cents less than he could have
gotten in the sale. In another
county, where there was no county
agent, no cooperation, farmers We're
forced to sell their wool at 10 cents
per pound. In still another county
the entire clip is yet unsold. So we
can point to the wool sale as strik-
ing example of the benefits Of coop
Grafton.
We might say that the potato as
sociation is the result Of the untiring
efforts of Mr. II W Hobby He has
stayed on the job through thick and
thin and has given not only of his
own time but his money to make the
association go.
The cooperative marketing of live
stock, poultry, and wool has been ac-
complished at the expense of the
time and labor of few determined
men.
We might point to the marketing
of this years tobacco crop as an ex-
ample of what happens without or
ganization. All are of a unanimous
opinion that tobacco would have sold
different, had it been handled and
marketed by farmers organization.
i We are making some efforts to get
lime in this county. We could ac-
complish so much more with an or
ganization.
Henry County should be sown
down to rye and crimson clover this
fall. How easily it could be done
when we all get in the same notion
and get squarely back Of the under
taking.
So, then, the idea is this: We
must have a general organization to
promote all of these movements. The
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