Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-23
AND VIEWS FOR THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER =:
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
BN DR.. ANDREW NJ SOULE
Marketing Crops Comparatively

In this day and time we hear a
great deal about cooperation. Some
times 1 fear that the word is not
properly understood and appreciated.
Cooperation, 1 take it, means the
banding together of a group of peo-
pie having similar interests for thu,
purpose Of promoting and advanc-
ing those interests. 1t means, there
fore, that the general good of the
organization, community or group of
| individuals concerned Is the first
point to be considered and studied.
1t means that general line of pol
icy must be determined upon and
followed out. 1t surely requires the
submergence Of Individual opinions
and ideas to the good Of the men,
bership which may be concerned.
One cannot expect to maintain all
his individualistic and independent
ideas and notions and be an asset to
cooperative society: Most of the
cooperative organizations that have
failed have done so because of the
insistence Of some Of the members of
given group on exercising an indi-
vidual control over the affairs Of the
association. There has been too
much of the idea of rule or ruin in
jected into many of these organiza-
make any progress in the matter of
cooperative marketing, it is first
necessary to realize just what COOP
GRAFTON means and be prepared to
work solely for the good OF the or
ganiZation.
cooperation than any other class of
our citizens. Each farm is an in
dividual unit with an independent
organization. The farmer, as a rule,
pitches the crops on the farm on
the basis Of his own idea as to what
should be planted without making
any effort to determine especially
what the market demands or re-
quirements may be. At harvest time
he has a large variety of products of
a more or less perishable nature on
his hands. His labor is expected to
supply the needs of the world for
a period of twelve months. How can
all the great assortment of food
stuffs he has raised be quickly har-
vested, wisely distributed and prop
erly stored? This has become daily
a more and more vexatious problem
as our civilization has increased in
it's complexity.
At the present time we find the
farmer very often with abundant
harvests at his disposal confronted
by Improbable prices. Occasionally
he is not offered enough for his crops
to enable him to pay his expenses.
In the face of this strange condi-
ton, there is a demand throughout
the world for a greater supply of
the farmer to garner and store his
crops after he had harvested and
assorted them and place them on the
market in accordance with the needs
of the world, this condition would
be Immediately changed and agri-
culture become one of our most per-
manent and desirable vocations.
The great question confronting us,
n ycS tn Srn@p
farmers to cooperate successfully
and on national and worldwide
basis SO that they may receive a
just price for the products of their
labor and be able to supply the need
of foreign countries at a cost which
prohibitive to the average citizen.
Only through great cooperative or
CARNATIONS with plenty of capital
and warehouses at their command
can we hope to solve the present
problem by which our agricultural
full storage and marketing of farm
crops, therefore is the crucial
question of the day and hour and
the one for which we must find a
satisfactory solution If permanent
on the basis of the worlds needs
are to be maintained. Under the cir
cumstances, it is always desirable
to consider what has been accom-
plished in the past. We are not al
which to build, and while only a
small beginning has been made in
this country, it is very gratifying
to know that there are fourteen
thousand farm organizations in ex-
istence in the United States which
some progress in the matter of or
ganizing and maintaining buying and