Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-10-25
McCALIB TELLS
FARMERS VALUE
OF FEDERATIONS
EXPLAINS WAY COTTON
GROWERS MADE MONEY
BY ORGANIZATION.

As fhs Panhandle Plains SrtsfNis.
,l ~ 1i farm couirnoilty marketing or
elrirations perfected un,i,r the super'
yisior u ca, Texas Farm Bureau Fcd.
srstion. Rave hen ASKED innumer-
ali, times o. wheat. grain sorghum.
attls. rfuiify swine. mills producers.
ird other farm pr0siuCt pfc'lut efs how
su.etsssfai thty mighi expect t. D. "
IN handling through marketing asso-
cations - Zach u the ai-ye products.
rsn answer such questions 30 better
tssa - telling What the Texas Farm
Rarsau Coiion Association has done,
answered u 4. McCaiih. wnas- head
quarters ~, IN Amarillo.
AFTER careful PREPARATION. the Texas
Farm nur,au Cotton Association Was
auuchcd - the Texas Farm Bureau
Fodersiirr In July. within thirty DAYS
u had g. go cotton growers AZ mem.
hsrs. Practically an 81 ;acm having
Sirsd the Fssm bureau. previously.
~ - to- coEuties from which the
mstut-rship was drawn have County
Faru Bureaus. which are almost alb
Soiut.iy necessary O. the succcssful
oIeraiion q farmers commodity mar
k,iinr associations
-wrhin ftft.cn DAYS after the cotton
lSs-c.aiion Vas Incorporated. the rrirv
~ cs.;trn or thu iouil markets had gone
fnicu > % u c.nts uer pognd Even
farmer knws that s'Ich incry'aScs u.
IEios ssld,m come until after the pro
ircts are cut II the farmers posscs-
siun.-
-Toisy the co;ton asS.rciaiion has a
credit z over SIS 90. Gee with The War
Flranos Corporation. Texas and New
York bankers. The question ~ finsnc-
inr - the EASIEST one handled ~ the
as~cc isiian. I; - lending iis mcmhcrs
SO pcr hale On their co;ion. which =
nor. Than they werc getting FOR il Al.
togstheT before the ASSOCIATION was
frrrnsa
Up until the present time the cot
ton association has advanced is mem
49, over s-eece ard has soli thou.
-anas q bales q co;;on n; FROM two 10
'hrse csnis pr pound NOR than =
aid cU;fon growers outside q the asso-
-iaficn. The cash business fund q the
association l. nov more than $3.50 .oeo.
and q course = increas,zi a. needed
Til. grower - any other farm corr
mosii;y may substitute MS own special
rrop. ~ each q them. fuT the word
cc;ton' ard 80 will have a fairly good
si.a Ehat ~ can exI--ct when his SPEC
M oornmoiity marketing aSscriation Is
perfected
The Farm Bureau organized each
commodity marketing ASSOCIATION Also
iussiy SEPARATE from sach other one
The producer - one kind q commodity
has nothing 10 90 with the harding O.
aroshsr. The closest cooperation and
contact - ksp; between the farmer,
I ihroueh their county. state ana ma
[ iional Farm Bureau Fed.fatiors. Thu,
'hey 90 away with any possibility %
/ friction between commodity marke,ins
o-ganiEa;ions. 90 the benefit q al o.
them
-only actual bora fide farmers ma,
/ sin tn Farin Bureau and the cooper
tfiv- commodity marketing assocfa
tons perfected By u That. and the plat
q Organization. every detail q whicl
has tse~n trie-i and found successful
mas made the farmers Organization
smong the sironEes; in the world. Al
soluisly even detail q his organize
lions have been solved. and ell he nov
ned D. i 70 Join them. The frs; on
;0r his consideration In the Panhmandl
..rohahsy viii ~ the whea, growers a,
so,isiion. ~hich the Farm Bureau e,
pets g. launch within a shor; time.
concirted AR. McCaiIh.