The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-07-28

The weather for harvesting has
been ideal for the past month, and
those who have had small grain have
had fine time to save il, and this
has been a great blessing to them
Row crops are looking fine. None Of
il has stopped growing a minute, and
/ is thrifty, and is now reaching the
| point Of maturity, and the point
where some additional moisture
would help il TO fill out better, and
increase the yield greatly Corn is
looking fine Some places we hear
I this particular crop would do bet
ter with a good rain.
; The wheat farmers, many Of them
have turned in and broke their stub
I bic land, and the ground piows well,
and the land will be in fine condition
to receive the first rain that falls.
In the Lubbock country the diver
sifcation Of crops has been practiced
pretty generally throughout the COM
munity, and farmers have quite
variety Of stuff 70 place on the mark
et The cotton acreage is much less
than last year. It is even less than
the farmers expected TO make il at
first, caused by heavy rains having
covered the seed TO deep 60 come up
in many places and it was too late
TO plant cotton again, hence was
planted TO other row crops, which
will not doubt yield abundantly.
From all indications there is go
ing to be the greatest row crop raised
in this country this year that has
ever been known, and the farmers
are going to have TO find some other
way TO market il besides throwing il
on the market in the usual hap
hazard manner.
The Farm and Ranch asks this
question and comments upon the out
come: will farmers glut the mark
et2
Word has gone out through the
daily press that the farmers Of the
Middle West have decided that dol
lar IN the pocket is worth two in the
warehouse and they sill market their
crops as fast as they are harvested .
In other words, those responsible for
such reports would have the world
believe that Notwithstanding the or
ganized effort being made to create
a new marketing system, that the
Mode West farmers are going 20 try
again the old system Of dumping
their crops upon the market within I
a period Of a few weeks, permitting
a score Of middlemen 90 secure the
profits made by holding until the
consuming public demanded their re-
lease at a good price.
1T is generally understood that
the farmers of the Middle West had
taken kindly 10 the movement to
create marketing organizations for
the purpose Of supplying the de-
mand as il IS created and to prevent
the Cutting Of the markets at har-
vest time. That being the case, then
the report that crops will be sold at
the first opportunity is wide of the
mark.
"The old. haphazard system of
marketing crops has always been un-I
certain. Producers are ready to try
something new. The general trend
is toward cooperative marketing or
ganizations. While not all producers
have given their support TO these new
organizations, enough have joined
them to give them a trial. Farmers
hav elearned to produce and now
their efforts are toward Tearing sales
manship. If the marketing organi-
Nations under the auspices of the
Farm Bureau, the Alliance, the Farm
ers' Union or under any other name
fail in any particular or IN all of
them. there will yet be an opportun-
ity to profit by the mistakes made
and another effort made.
Producers of agriculture and live
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are thinking Of the same thing. and
that is how 10 sell their products at
cost-plus. They may be approaching
the subject from different angles, but
eventually they viii get together and
adopt system Of marketing which
will compensate themselves for their
industry and give the consumers the
value Of their money. Those inter-
ests which have profted by the old
system had better be looking around
for another job"
Along this line this good farm
paper offers a suggestion that in all
probability would be wise plan. II
says:
are going 20 have big feed crop and
no market. Even II il can be sold
at all, the producer, unless exceed
ingly well located as 10 demand. viii
find prices 80 low that II won't pay
60 move the market regardless Of
cost Of producing.
within a few miles Of big city
there Is a farmer who has on hand
more than 100 tons of excellent
Johnson grass hay put up last year
al actual cost of cutting. ties and
heIing Of - per ton. This hay has
been offered delivered on track or
At dealers warehouse az - por ton
and no buyer found, although same
Kind and quality ~ hay u selling a
retail fos inore than tao per ton.
| This farmer Il movlnE and pgTp.nf
| The first crop this year. instead nf
baking and vallng AHhqush The hsy
ean ~ saved foF isss sh.. year ih4n
lss, shsFs = no fs.sen iet Doing !