The Pulaskian., 1921-03-17
FARMERS MEET
 HERE MARCH '
CALLED TO ASSEMBLE IN LIB. ERTY HALL TO CONSIDER PROBLEMS OF COOPERATIVE MARKETING.

MARKETING.
 Every farmer of Arkansas who will attend the big farmers meeting to be held in Liberty Hall, Little Rock, on next Tuesday, March 9, will have the opportunity of hearing a marketing plan from a man who thoroughly understands marketing and the difficulties which the farmer meets in disposing of his products, declares Harry F. Kapp, state or ganizer of the Farm Bureau in Ark ansas.
 Aaron Sapiro, noted attorney for 16 successful farm marketing organi- cations of the west, is coming to Ar kansas to help Arkansas farmers in forming cotton marketing associa- tion,'' says MT. Kapp. For several months past Mir. Sapiro has been closely studying the cotton situation and is coming to this state with ex- pert advice toward the perfection of a cotton marketing association, plans of which have been formulating through efforts of the Arkansas State Farm Bureau during the past few months.
 s.The Arkansas Farm Bureau has secured the services of Mir. Sapiro for the meeting in Little Rock, March 9. Members of all farm organiza- lions and all other farmers of the state are invited to attend the meet ing. Plans for a cotton marketing association such as has been formed in Texas and Oklahoma will be pre- sented. Plans will also be presented for the marketing of other commodi- ties grown in Arkansas.
 In discussing plans for a cotton marketing association in Arkansas, with the Arkansas Farm Bureau, Mir. Sapire has this to say: Texas, Okla homa and Arkansas could control the cotton market of the South. With the percentage of cotton raised by these states, you can do something. You can organize the largest coop erative marketing association in the world. Oklahoma already has be- gun. Texas is starting. Arkansas is ready and Mississippi and Louisiana are coming.
 
 ''The first big principle to be ob- served in cooperative marketing is to organize by commodities and not by locality. The buyer does not care where the cotton comes from All he wants to know is that it has a certain staple and grade so that 1t can be used in his mill.
 s'The second big principle is that no one but farmers should be in the organization. The third principle in the organization of cooperative as- sociation is that 1t must be large enough to be a factor in the world market.
 ''The fourth big principle is that there must be binding contract be- tween the grower and the association l We must remember that we are deal- ing with human beings and that one or two men in every 100 are weak. The speculators are going to try to get men to break their contracts and for that reason we want a binding contract extending over period of years"
 ''In California, where cooperative marketing has proven to be so sue cessful, the cooperative associations have form of contract that has been sustained in court IF times, says MT. Kapp. When the Arkansas legislative assembly passed the Sen tae Bill No. l58 providing for the organization of a cooperative mar keting association they gave Arkan- sas farmers the right to form a CO operative cotton marketing associa- ton and to market their product through the association under con- tract.
 ''The Arkansas State Farm Bureau is asking every farmer in the State who possibly can to come to this big meeting in Little Rock on March P, where he can learn how a big cotton marketing association may be formed in Arkansas and later fed crate with other states of the South so that the entire cotton section may in he future be marketing its whole output through uniform market channels.'