The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-06-23
Conference az Capitol Shows Unless
Organization for Selling Pur-
poses Formed Ere aht Rates
May Surpass Revenue
600 CARS EXPECTED TO
BE SHIPPED FROM GRADY
Plan to Get High Dollar After Cars
Are Loaded and Inspected; Agree :
ment Reached at Meeting Of
Growers and Officials.

That there is serious danger Of
watermelon prices being less than
freight charges on tho shipment OF
this product II the crop IL not care.
fully handled. was brought out In
tho conference held yesterday In
Oklahoma City. according 10 4. +.
Houston. Grady county farm agent.
who was present at the conference.
Traffic managers OF railroad lines
operating In the state and several
growers and agricultural agents at.
tended the conference, Mr.. Houston
said.
Local Selling Organization
Local yelllng organizations form
the only solution of the problem.
IL was brought out" Mr.. Houston
declared this morning. 1t is evil
dent" he added. that communities
expecting to sell melons in carload
lots should have local selling or
ganization and provide FOR proper
inspection and loading.
ITO that end J. A. Whltehurst.
president 9f the state board of az
rlculture, agrees that we may rec
ommend competent local men to do
the inspecting and loading for which
state inspection certificate may
be had. That will minimize ex-
penses.
In order . assist farmers to get
In the habit of attending to the SELL
ing of their own products | make
this proposition for this season. IL
the growers of each local shipping
point In my territory will form
little selling association and furnish
me with the names of those selected
to manage the selling, | will give
them special help from my office.
With such an arrangems1 we can
have the assistance of the state
department of agriculture, the Unit
ed States bureau of markets and
the railroad officials. Then, too,
through cooperation, each local can
put out full carloads of choice heavy
melons while no one individual has
melons enough to do that.
II shall be pleased to assist any
community in forming selling as
sociation. 1t Is no big undertaking
but may be the means OF saving
many dollars to the melon growers.
Anyone interested in handling the
melons for the farmers is sure to
discourage the formation Of an as
sociation, but we wish to console
him by saying that the high dollar
will buy the melons when they are
properly loaded and ready to move,
No one is barred from buying. The
more buyers the better. IL | can
assist your community, feel free to
call me. am at your service"
State Supervision Provided
An arrangement has been made
by the state board Of agriculture
whereby the work Of the state mar
keting commission, support of which
was denied by the recent legisla-
ture will be handled this year
through the orchard and nursery de-
partment, and grading and market
ing will continue as when the mar
ket commission had full power.
Although grading and inspecting
| will be handled on different plan
than before, this work will still be
under the supervision of J. A. Fa'lr-
quhart, field man of the orchard and
nursery department and assistant
supervisor of inspection.
Railroad representatives agreed
1 that the shipments of melons and
fruits officially stamped this year
will be accepted as before and that
growers whose product passes in
spection will be shipped without the
necessity of preparing the freight.
inspectors who will supervise the
loading this year will be appointed
by the commission and will be paid
the regular fee of 81 per car by the
growers.
DR.. Whitehurst says, "Oklahoma
will probably ship in the neighbor-
hood of 1,400 cars of melons and
fruit this year. About 100 cars are
expected from Mustang, 100 cars