The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-06-24

The value Of cooperative marketing
Of farm products has again been dem I.
Oustrsted in Tennessee ty results OBJ
tanned through cooperative sales cf
lambS. wool in several counties during
tie pat few weeks. says A. L. Jordor,
marketing specialist. Division Of Exter-
sion.
In Wilson County lamb clubs saved
members 50 cents to sl.l5 per lamb
through cooperative sales held in May.
The lambs sold BY the various clubs If
the county brought the following price:
Baird Mills Club. lambs delivered at
Lebanon at sl2 SIS on $500 Nashville
msrKei: Mt. Juliet. sll.eO on el2 80
Nashville market; Cairo Bend. lambs
I. o. b. Cairo Bend. sl3 80 on q sl4OO
Nashville market.
Reports from Rutherford County
chow that the lamb and wool club Of
that county saved farmers $40 on .
cooperative shipment Of .fonr cars Of
lambs. The best grade Of wool sold for
$ls, 10 per hundred pounds which was
considerably more than the farmers
have received bad they not sold CO.
operatively.
Forty-seyen members OF the Weakly
County Sheep Growers Association
disposed Of It's pounds Of wool IT
prices ranging from 8 1 to 1874 cents,
according TO the grade. This was fully
2 rents per pound T.Cre than they
would have received II they had sold
otherwise than comparatively,
The Montgomery County lamb club
made its first cooperative shipment Of
ambs on May 81 and after ell expenses
OF the shipment had been met the
farmers received SIS more than they
were offered locally
In Hickman County two cars Of
lambs were graded and sold coopera-
lively on May Is. The sale and demon,
stration in grading WAS attended by
so farmers and four purebred rams he.
ing placed in the county as result. A
nice saving for the farmers was made
on this shipment and they we're ell
well pleased.
In view Of present day conditions the
above prices are considered very salts.
factory, 10 many cases being even Ret.
ter than the grower had expected.
There il big surplus Of wool in the
United States this season and the farm
er have been very much pleased to
dispose Of their spring clip at these
pri,es,. though they are seemingly low
when they are compared with the high
prices received last year..
A hunter Of cooperative sales just
as successful ss the ones mentioned
above have been held In the state this
season and ell are evidence that we'll
directed efforts of farmers t. marke
their products comparatively should be
encouraged Often tim the differense
between what the farmer received
from local buyers or shippers and what
be would receive through cooperative
marketing. properly directed, would
change loss into profits and prosperity.
The prosperity Of the farmers in any
aricultural community means prosper.
! ity for the community a. whole.
More and more better business methods
are being adopted BY Tennessee farm.
efs and ~ = result they are realizing
more yearly every cent the market AZ
fords than ever before. II the farmer
must continue to divide or give up bic
entire profits to middlemen bis scvsn-
cement and the sdvsncem ent Of sgri-
culture and general prosperity in the
state will continue to be retarded, This
| is one Of the worth while pieces Of
work that the county sgricultursl q
gents are carrying 90 with the farm
| ere Of Teppe<eee and instances like the