The daily times., 1921-12-28

working together, success for the
movement is assured.
DR.. Kilgore declared that coopera-
tive marketing is not a new thing,
| neither is it an experiment, that it
lad been tried successfully in Den
mark and in a number of countries in
/, Europe for more than sixty years.
/ plan for twenty five years, and as
/ result had rooted North Carolina out
! Of second place, for it mattered not
, low much is made, it is what is re-
ceived for the produce and by reason
of proper marketing and holding until
the demand met the supply, the far
mers of California had made of their
state one of the leading agricultural
sections of the country and her peo-
pie the most prosperous.
DR.. KilgOre said the President of
: the United States was behind cooper
ative marketing, and devoted a part
,sof his message to it, and declared
that one Of the great troubles with
agriculture was in thAs1Rprorer mar
keting and distribution Of the pro-
ducts of the farm. He also read ex-
tracts from Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace, who said that he had
received messages from relatives, and
reports from newspapers and travel
lers, and that all spoke of the fact
that California through cooperative
marketing had stood the depression
better than any state in the union.
! Quoting from Secretary Wallace,
the latter said, 'Traders are inter-
, ested generally in a,lower price. They
sell in large volume, and find it easier
to handle produce in large quantities
! at lower price than a higher price,
; therefore when conditions are suit
able to decline, the downward
, trend is easy"
DR.. Kilgore stated that he had
! visited California and had seen the
workings of the system and is inn.
pressed that it is the only way. He
had been working in this state for
thirty years to help the farmers and
knew a great many farmers in differ
| ent parts of the state, and they are
his friends, and that he would not
advocate something he had not
studied and believed entirely salts
factory and to the farmers interests
DR.. Kilgore then described the
| financing end of the plan. He said
that the Cooperative Marketing AS
: sOciation is a business proposition
and organized under the laws of
North Carolina, the last legislature
I passing an act that SO appealed to
! the Kentucky growers that the Bur
| ley people had organized under our
laws. He said that he went north and
! interviewed the bankers of New
York on the subject and they told
him they had rather have cotton and
tobacco as security than California
fruits, since the fruit is liable to
spoil. and if the price is too high
people will not buyy. BESIDES tobac-
co and cotton are a necessity aud
further both are practically imperish-
able. and the bankers said their Sc
curity is much safer. He said that
the bankers of New York, the War
! Finance Board and the local banks
who are expected to pass on the Sc
i curities will finance the association
in this state, which is a member of
the tri-state organization. He add
ed that other buyers of cotton and
4
and tobacco and asked why the
farmers could not do it, if they were
organized under a proper business
basis.
TT Kilgore paid his respects to
the warehousemen Of Wilson, He
said that he read an advertisement
saying they would open in Septem-
Der, 1922. for the sale of tobacco.
They had q perfect right to do that
but the Cooperative Association
would sell the next crop, or at least
large part of it, and the farmer who
, did not sell through the Cooperative
Association might regret that he had
not come to the assistance of his
brother farmer He urged all those
| who had not joined to do SO, since
it was better to make it unanimous
but. cooperative marketing would
, prove a success.
J, DR.. Crocker then presented Hon
Larry Moore as a former Wilson
county man and deeply interested ir
the farmer. Mr.. Moore made rous-
ing good speech. He said among
other things that the products of ev,