Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-13
TRUCK GROWERS
POINT INC THE WAY
+; TOPROF|T FARMING
Cooperative Association at
Warm Springs Uses Mod
ern Methods and Insists on
High Quality Products
BY RALPH SMITH

overland from Atlanta through the
counties Of Clayton. Henry, Spalding
s Pike and Meriwether I stopped at
Manchester late Monday afternoon
80 see J. S. Peters. the banker. Mr..
Peters was away in Atlanta, and l
vas lamenting his absence when
4 Dave Smith, the bank cashier, made
d rwo dissertations or remarks-oEe
Interesting, and the other both In
eresting and important.
Dave Smith remarked, first, that
The Yankees had won the fifth game
4 ,f the world series, and second, that
:. H. Boyd, cashier of the Citizens
bank at BullochvilIe, could tell me
bout a cooperative truck growers
association that had been recently or
sanized in the vicinity of Warm
springs.
All day I had been tunketing
through some Of the prettiest farm
ng land in the state, wondering at
irst hand evidences Of the depreda-
ions of the boil weevil and being
July impressed with the hard luck
tories I heard concerning the failure
II the cotton crop and the inconven-
snces incident to the aforesaid fall
IRE.
! Cooperation Being Tried
Cashier Boyd, of the Citizens bank
4 Bullochville, told me all about
he Warm Springs Truck Growers
ssociation. of which he is secretary
4 ehe other officers are o. A. Richie,
4 line mountain peach grower anu
4 resident and general manager OF the
YARN Springs Fruit company; ana
T. D. F. Stranahan, vice president.
6r Stranahan also is interested IN
ne fruit company.
The Warm Springs Truck Growers
association is chartered by the state
L Georgia. It's charter bears the sig
4 allure of Secretary Of State Guyt
i EcLendon. 1t was organized last
ummer. and has been functonlng
satisfactorily and successfully ever
Ince But the development OF the
ssocfation and it's work are in their
infancy.
AS necessity is the mother of in
.ntion so also is necessity the moth
of the Warm Springs Truck Grow
RS association, and Old Mother Ne
essity has never had an offspring
aore promising than this sell same
Warm Springs child.
THE association" explained Mr..
lloyd. is the result of conditions re-
ulting from the failure of the cot
] 3n crop in this section, and the DEM
Dstrated efficiency of cooperative
! marketing Oh a large scale.
NO. he added. when interrupted,
2ur association hasn't )utlawed cot
On We don't care a rap whether
j ur members plant cotton or not. hut
re are vitality concerned that our
lembers abide their obligation to cul-
lvate diversified farm products on a
Gale and in manner agreeable to
ne management of the association"
And then after a pause, Mr.. Boyd
ontinued'
Let me tell you something that
ou should put in The Journal about
his association in the hope that it will
ncourage farmers in other sections
Georgia to wake up. The Warm
prings Fruit Growers association
egan to function in a modest way
bout the middle of July. Water
selons were just coming in at that
sme, you know.\
An object Lesson
well, the W. S. T. G. A. Che rat
led off the initials with familiar
~ born Of interes) handled the mel
rs Of it's members, and nose melons
cited. mind you. SIS per car. where
. melons shipped by non-members
fere total loss with no insurance.
actually know of non-members who
,st as much as $3.50 per car on their
4 lelons.
Why? Because non-members
admit the facilities for properly
marketing Their melons. They hadn I
ne facilities for satisfactorily grad
lg them as to size and weight, and
ney were not properly packed in the
ars. Our association saw to it that
ne melons of it's members were grad
n - y
fere protected against Stem-end rot
I'D that they were secure against
amago in transit
The Warm Springs Truck Grow
4 rs association has a membership OF
farmers, who reside in the vicinity
{ Warm Springs and BullochvrIle
hitch are IN Mertwether county.
Iany of it's members live In Harris
punty, just below. All of them pay
membership fee of IS per year
As to the plans of the association
Dr. the future, Mr.. Boyd said:
our members are pledged and are
nder contract to plant, in the spring
j the year, not less than one acre
A English peas; one acre in lettuce
pc acre in snap beans: one or more
i ores In tomatoes; five or more acres
sweet potatoes; five or more acres
7 Irish potatoes; five or more acres
2 watermelonS.
S"Such of the foregoing crops as
nature early are to be rotated
trough August Is.
THE members also obligate them
elves not to plant more than five
cres Of cotton to the pillow. Thus
Is assured that the other crops
ill not be neglected because of the
emands of the cotton crop"
Secret of Success
And now Mr.. Boyd called attention
D what he regards the one Of the
m nnTt3nt
aniZatiOn and the contract under
hitch its members are bound mu-
ually.
ut is, all we'll enough to talk
bout diversifying the crops and tG
amt beautiful word pictures of what
Feorgia's soil and wonderful climate
rill produce" he said. But empty
rords means little. and we know by
experience that scientific knowledge
nd long experience is required tC
hat will compete in the markets OF
ne world with the best that Cali
.Enia can raise.
''One of the great troubles We have
ad in Georgia, and the thing from
'hich the farmers have suffered has
cen our failure to produce in guam
lty high grade truck. We have
aised entirely too much low grade
nd scrubby stuff, and the produce
callers in the big distributing cen
ers don't want and won't handle
nything but the best:
"In order to meet this requirement
ur members are under contract tC
ultivate their produce under the
supervision and direction Of an ex
ert and from only selected seed. We
re going to have in our employ, oul
iutual employ, you understand, mer
rho understand the game Of produc
ng only the best lettuce, the bes
sparagus, the best potatoes, the bes
bmatoes and other standards Of the
rucking business"
journal Campaign Praised
En- route Monday, l stopped at a
lumber of places, as stated. nd
akled with many leading citizens
Foo in tho HIGHEST term c