Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-14

per cent Of the peach growers; sew
enty-five per cent of the lima bean
growers; over fifty per cent Of tho
pear growers; about fifty per cent q
the alfalfa growers, and so on.
Just Try 1t With Eggs.
We have even organized the egg
industry. If you think any industry
is hard to organize, just go out and
study about eggs. Eggs not on:y
come from America-the biggest pro-
ducing State. of course. is Missouri
we raise less than five per cent g
the eggs in the country in California.
They come from China and from
Australia, eggs of all kinds. We get
Chinese eggs, buried in clay for six
months so as to keep from spring to
fall, then sold in the California market
mixed up with the middle-western
storage eggs. If you want to get
eggs with a particularly Chinese
flavor. just get those eggs that have
been buried for six months.
We have to compete with eggs from
all over the world. Yet we have =
poultry producers association. that
handled last year fifteen million dozen
eggs Every egg is candIed and grad
ed and the proceeds pooled.
They have under contract $500 900
hens-the hens are not under contract
to lay, but the owners are under con-
tract 10 deliver. This year the associa.
ton will handle over 10000, 900 dozen
eggs.
so you can organize, no matter how
difficult it seems at the start. The
California idea has been spreading Bka
wildfire. 1t has been adopted bodily
by Canada. The Canadians ara nz4y
organizing their wheat industry, 100.
100000 bushels. on a five-year plan.
They took their model from the Wash
ington Wheat Growers Association.
The cotton men are organized in sev.
eral States on that basis. The tobacco
men Of Virginia and North Carolina
and South Carolina have already start
ed on the California idea.
JUDGE BINGHAN-Did Won fu-.
nish those plans. for instance the
Canadian plan?
MIR. SAPIRO-I didn't mean to sug-
gest 1t was my own movement.
JUDGE BINGHAM--But I wanted
to get that before the minds of this
group of men.
MIR. SAPIRO-The movement is dis
tinctly Ca!ifornia-but from California
it has spread and become nationsI.sa6
at this time. We are not only start.
ing organizatiOns-but builL;cg sHte
Few Of them, actually working Gk,ejr
marketing problems out.
Marketing of Grain.
1 want to tell You Of the financing
plan the Washington Wheat Growers
use, which experts say is the most
sound and economic plan ever evolved
for growers of wheat. I have mention.
ed a great many associations and You
men must have commented in you-
minds that these associations are all
totally unlike. There are all kinds Of
Industries; there are all kinds of prob
lens in each. You have probably won
dered, for these things are so difTerent-
wondered if there are any really
fundamental principles through all
that you can apply to tobacco, as well
as TO strawberries and beans.
The first thing you want to notice
in practically every cooperative as
ISOLATION in California is that It is
based on the commodity idea instead
of the locality idea. That means It
was built up looking at the commod-
ity you had to sell instead Of the 10
cality Of place where you raised 4.
On the other hand, all the Middle
Western co-operatives are built around
one place.
Nobody cares where you produce
wheat. They don't buy geography;
they buy the product. If you raise
something you think of the locality.
If you buy something you think Of
the commodity. That is the first and
dominant point in the California idea.
We have had some failures. We had
to go through an awful lot Of expert
enCe to find that out. The orange
growers organized locally. fighting
each other, each trying to get into
the same market. They couldn't I'M
derstand why the didn't get any
where. They suddenly realized they
were organized from the wrong view
point. They had organized from the
viewpoint Of production instead of
marketing. They started in to recon-
struct. Today our orange growers as
ISOLATION is composed of 21S locals,
federated into twenty districts, the
districts federated into one central
exchange.
OF course, all products have differ
ent problems. The problem Of per
ishable products is routing. The prob
lem of the nonperishable products is
so that you can have sane
and orderly marketing throughout the
year. The routing of the California
Fruit Growers Association is done
one office that routes practi-
cally every car Of oranges.
The Lessons of Experience.
1t took many years to learn that.
We were so stupid that our other as
sociations didn't even learn from the
lad experiences Of the orange grow
ers. The prune growers had to be
bumped themselves before they rec
ognized that. The prune growers were
locally. At Santa Clara