The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-16

Tho following article clipped from
the Jaruary 18th, issue of the Pro-
gres5.ve Farmer" explains some Of the
ohief purposes of the Oklahoma Cot
tou Growers association, a Carter
county branch of which IS being
vrrluized lnder the direction Of Coun-
ty Assent smpkins and c. l.. Nc
Mutt tto organizer,
'SI1nogr the cotton manufacturers
Of America had to work twelve months
,a hs ear. making cotton goods, and
;nen LAD the entire product Of the
year thrown on the market all at
uaeo n.n fall.
Ttcu suppose half these manufac-
Jurors Wore n lcbt for supplies ad-
va1c.l acu .ur making their goods
uli ol tpa debts maturing right away
ANA .her creditors were pressing them.
Suppose there were no organized SELL
ing, and each manufacturer had to
go out and sell his product, or give
3: away, according TO The desperate
ness of mis- need.
And yet the cotton growers OF the
south have marketed (?) their 'money
crops" under an even worse system.
To get an exact counterpart in the
manufacturing world we shall have to
go q little further. Let us imagine
making Its products and that all Of
them get ready to sen at once in Sep
tember. October and November.
Then instead of one mans looking
after the selling Of rhe conbincd pro-
duct OF the several hundred Cor sew
eral thousand operatives in n factory,
let US imagine that each individual
factory worker Or operative gets his
little proportionate personal part of
the years output and must go out
and sch it for whatever price he can
get--half the time his creditors press
ing him for money and he Nlaving no
resources except to dump The goods
on the hands of whatever buyer hap
pens to seem most promising
Can anybody imagine more widely
absurd and uneconomic system OF
selling manufactured goods? Could any
body expect anything else but that the
cotton manufacturing business would
go hopelessly bankrupt under such con-
ditions? Yet, when you think about it,
is not this exactly what happens in
the selling Of naw cotton?
IL you and your neighbors want to
reform this system get behind your
county agent and other local leaders;
thaf n t. l.
fore next years crop is harvested.
see that this warehouse Is bonded and
properly operated; see that a govern
ment cotton grader and salesman is
employed Then see that your ware
house or cotton association is affil-
lated with all other such associations
in a state cotton growers business Or
ganization. Our state is already well
started in this work. The Texas Cot
ton Growers ASSOCIATION has been
formed. The new associations only
need to join St
If you have the stomach for a fight
! to throw off speculative control of
cotton and make yourself independent
Join the ranks OF those striving for a
better cotton marketing system"
In speaking of the Cotton Growers
association Mr.. McNutt states that
the counties throughout the state are
coming into the association from Go
to 90 per cent. Garyfn county leads
all Others in the state with n MEM
bership Of more than 1000. Mccain
county is second with more than 500
members. and really has a better per-
centage of members. considering the
number of farmers in the county, than
hAs Garvin. There is friendly rivalry