Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-15
ARKANSAS IS
 LINING UP IN
 BIC MOVEMENT
Forty Counties Have Sub- scribed to Plan Designed to Force Better Market ing Conditions.
Special Little Rock Correspondent ol The Daily Press and Trl"
 Weekly Soliphone)

Special Little Rock Correspondent of
 The Daily Press and Fri"
 Weekly soliphone)
 Little Rock, Aug. 11.-ft seems possible that the Southern farmer
 is being forced by circumstances
 to adopt defensive methods which have proven effective in other states. It is admitted that he has been
 too long dependent upon the ex-
 ploitation of those who have prof ited most from the efforts Of his labor. The average Southern farmer has been good agriculturist, but ia poor business man. As result the business of farming has proven less and less attractive until the future of the industry has become la serious problem. It has been known for a long time that the disease existed and there have been diagnosis of the malady, but there has not been proper pathological conditions to guarantee remedy, nor has there been an effective agency to administer it.
 All of which is preliminary to the statement that the way out of the jdifficulty seems to have been provid- ed by the Farm Bureau organiza- | tion and movement for the Amerl- can Cotton Growers Cooperative | Association which is now being pro-
 noted throughout the South. The Iplan is not so complex that it should 1 be obscure, but as explained by ex-
 perts who have had many years icxperience in similar organizations lit presents d system for the scicntl- lie distribution of the South's staple crop which promises emancipation for the cotton farmer.
 There have been many other or ganizations in the state having the same ends in view, such as the Wheel, the Grange, the Farmers Union and the American Cotton As
 sociation and others. Each of the older organizations lacked something principally cohesion, and with the exception of the Farmers Union, which is still a strong and growing concern, they have been abandoned. The Farmers Union, however, the
 Farm Bureau and the agricultural extension forces of the state and | federal government believe they see in the cooperation of the cotton growers themselves the means where placed upon d business basis.
 During the past week meetings of farmers representing possibly 40 counties, were held at Helena. Pine Bluff, Little Rock and Newport
 each meeting being largely attended | by men directly interested in the production of cotton. The meetings were addressed by Aaron Sapiro. an l internationally known expert on
 cooperative marketing who is re Iputed to receive one of the most l liberal salaries paid in the United States for what he knows and his 1 ability 10 direct others along the proven pathway of success in the | organization of cooperative SyS-
 tems Mir. Sapiro brought to Ark
 kansas the experience of 9 years ] of failure and success in the hand ! ling of agricultural products of Cali
 fornia During that period many
 errors have been made, but the
 farmers have profited by their mis- l takes and, discarding methods which 1 failed, have adopted only those which offer a maximum of success California is now thoroughly or
 ganized and it's federated marketing
 associations, with more than S0,000 members, handle hundreds of mil l lions of dollars worth of staple products every year. There is q disability in their markets and their brides which spells prosperity for
 tho entire state, The producer does moi pretend to be more than d pro- ducer. When his product leaves his farm or his orchard he has nothing
 to do with it's sale. This is entirely in the hands of marketing experts who are paid big money, for the use loG their brains. All that the farmer has to do is to collect his part of the proceeds after his product has been marketed in an orderly man Iucr through an internal pool. There are no amateurs in the selling game, just as there are no amateurs in the producing end of the industry, Specializing thus produces experts all along the line and when their ef-
 forts are correlated prosperity must
 he the reward of all.
 Arkansas is making rapid strides
 in the organization of q state branch of the Cotton Growers Cooperative Association and when q minimum Of 200,00 bales of the 1922 crop has been signed mp on five year con
 tracts, the association will be ready