Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-06-22

COMMUNITY COOPERATION
Arrange With Local Merchant to
Handle Your Products-Fighting
Him Pays You Nothing.

), In community cooperative effort
: strong marketing committee is neces
n sary to look after the sale of the pro
e ducts of the community and in the pu
i chase of supplies in quantity.
Instead of opening a new co-opera
tive store, if there is a successful hon
est merchant in the business in TIL
community, it will be found NOR,
practical and profitable to arrang,
with him to act as your representa-
tive. You can agree on the percent
Iage of the volume of business he i.
to have for his services.
He can afford to serve you for the
same or less than you could without
long experience in the business. You
could show him the volume of quality
product you would have to be market
ed, and also what you would require
in the way of supplies.
Naturally he would realize that his
income would be more secure than it
would be in entering on a scramble
to hold his customers.
Community cooperation will sue
ceed only when the citizenship of that
community appreciate the fact that
their greatest success and prosperi
ty are dependent on the prosperity OF
the community as whole.
| have no patience with the view
expressed by some that increased
prices can be secured by reducing the
acreage in cultivation. Keep every
acre busy; diversity your crops; prof.
duce on the farm, as nearly as you
can, everything you consume.
By diver sifcation you can solve
the problem of over-production of
some crops and under production of
others. 1t has been repeatedly stated
that we consume in Tennessee three
bushels of Irish jotatoes for every one
we produce; that we have shipped in
to the State far more fruit than we
market of the home e-grown product
while it is we'll established fact that
we have soil and climatic conditions
for the production of
these necessaries of life.
Farmers in community should
get together and determine what crops
and what breeds of live stock are
pest suited to their particular local
ties, while producing as nearly as
possible enough for home consump-
ion of everything required on the
arm; then agree on the kind of crops
md live stock they will produce for
market, so that they may have guam
ity and quality product.
We have such wide range of soil
ypes and elevation that we can sue
essfully produce any thing in Ten
lessee tha can be produced in any of
he Southern States. except Florida, /
nd we can also successfully produce
many things grown in the Northern S
tateS. i
Profitable markets cannot be devel- {
ped in a day. Buyers have their es. {
ablshed sources of supply. We have
cen dumping our products on the mar
ct without regard to condition. Deal
rs have been buying it at their own
rices and have added to the cost ~ {
1e consumer in the majority of cases 9
lr more than the price paid to the :
rducer for grading it and preparing :,
for the retail market--a service that a
,ould have been attended to by the q
-oducer through cooperative effort, t
ith very little increased cost, there c
Y increasing his prihts at least sol :
,rcent.
Community cooperative effort in =
oducing quantity, quality and vari-
y product, with practical business
ethods of marketing the product will
I've the financial problems for the =,
rmer and in a reasonable time. Will q
, cooperate or will we drift p Il
'alks to Farmers" by Capt. T.. F. 50
ck, Commissioner of Agriculture. d,
d.