Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-15
FARM MARKET PLAN
FOR GEORGIA CROPS
FINALLY APPROVED
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pate in the perfection of the perma-
nent organization.
When the organization details
have been improved by the board OF
directors. it is planned by the execu-
tive committee to formally launch
the federation at a meeting to be
held in January. in Atlanta, and to
which will be invited representatives
of every chamber of commerce, board
of trade, cooperative growers as
ISOLATION, cooperative marketing as
ISOLATION, packing plant, refrigerat-
ing plant, potato storage house,
grain elevator, oil mill, syrup refin-
cry, flour and grist mill, dairy and
creamery, in the state.
Mr. Adams Speech
At the meeting of the executive
committee, in submitting the tenta-
tive draft of his organization plans,
Mr.. Adams saiGb among other things:
'It seems not too much to say
that in a peculiarly striking sense
the Georgia Farm Market federation
is being forwarded to supply very
real and admitted need for an in.
strumentality through which a great
public service to the state of Georgia
can be performed.
"The ravages of the boil weevil, as
we'll as the problems of after the
war readjustment, have brought
about such changed conditions in
our agricultural industries that a
complete reorganization of its pro-
cesses is necessary. These condI-
tons now force us to accept wide
crop diXersification as an accom-
plished fact and not as an economic
theory.
Particularly favored is Georgia
to adapt itself quickly to this
change. In the diversity of it's CHI
mate and soil and the myriad Of the
products which it can produce, it is
the peer of any commonwealth be-
meath the sun. =
"In this period Of transition from
a single money-crop standard to a
diversified one, the one great OBJ.
stacle which the individual farmer
alone, unaided, cannot surmount is
the fundamental question of mar
kets.
"This is not the problem and con-
Germ of the farmer alone, but equal
iy, it belongs to the business man as
we'll.
'"Too long have commerce and in
dustry heard that agriculture is the
bed rock basis of all industry-and
listened as to a platitude, and made
no general, genuine, determined and
sustained effort to- effect that de-
gree of mutual helpful cooperation
and confidence which the acceptance
of such a basic fact must at once
make apparent to a thoughtful
mind.
Big Loss to State
For perhaps hundred years or
more, cotton has been grown in
Georgia and has been the chief, if
not the only, money crop of the
state. During, that time very
complete system of ginning. prepar-
ing and marketing cotton has come
into being, SO that ready cash mar
ket for cotton exists in practically
every town and village in Georgia,
throughout the year.
"This is not true of any other
crop save cotton.
"The loss to the commerce and
wealth of the state of Georgia, due
to this fact, is almost beyond calcu-
lation. 1t has an adverse effect up
on the musiless of every business
man in the state, and today is prob
ably the most serious problem which
confronts the commercial and agri-
cultural interests of the state.
"This matter of markets is not a
farmers problem; it is a business
mans problem. To very large ex.
tent when the farmer has grown the
crop, put it in condition to market
and brought it to town, his part of
the task is done-the distribution
and handling of the crop after it is
produced issup to the business man.
Agriculture is the foundation of all
business prosperity, and the disor-
ganization of business in Georgia
today, due to the lack of adequate
markets, is a very serious one for
every business man.
Recognizing these conditions the
Country Bankers Association of
Georgia, in connection with The AT
lanta Journal, began campaign Of
investigation and an agitation for
better system of markets in Geor-
gia, and to which a great deal of
interest has been aroused and volun-
tary support has been forth coming.
mo great amount of good can re-
suit from mere agitation unless it is
logically followed by some definite
action and concrete achievement.
1.-THE Georgia Bankers association
and the Atlanta Clearing House have
both generously and Fundamentally
joined in the movement and are CIV
ing it valuable aid and support. But
lis is by no means bankers move.
ment-it merely so Happens that
the bankers. by reason of the very
nature of their business, are in closer
association with all other lines Of
business. agriculture and commerce,
than any other group Of our c!ti-
zens, and it seems but logical that
they should take the initiative in
such a matter of universal interest,
and to seek to bring about greater
degree of mutual confidence and CO.
operation"
/ F. Deason Elected