Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1922-03-22


10 rather difficult to pick the sheep
from the goats, so all producers are
urged TO be on their guard against
the propaganda and tactics carried
on by these -niddlemen. In COM
batting cooperative wool marketing,
wool dealers tactics usually consist
of the following activities;
/. Circulating false reports and
propaganda about the cooperative
associations methods of doing busi-
ness, regardless of the fact that deal
ers know practically nothing about
them
2. Offering high prices for few
choice remaining lots Of wool with
the idea of establishing In the mind
OF the wool grower that said dealer
would pay these prices. Growers
should remember that the associa-
tion forces dealers to strain them
selves to the very limit in offering
prices. Growers should also remem-
ber that II the association had left
its 100000 pounds Of wool in the
valley, these dealers would offer
much less per pound, because they
would know that you would have to
accept their offers or keep your wool.
Growers should also know that deal
ers would willingly lose money by
paying to prices, even to paying more
than the wool was worth, II by such
means they could do away with the
association, and get the field back
to themselves again. But, oh boy!
when they would get the field back,
how they would make the poor wool
growers pay through their noses for
our sins in marketing wool co-opera-
lively.
3. Offering high prices before
shearing time when dealers know
there is practically no wool to buy.
This is done for the purpose of dis
satisfying members with the returns
they receive from their association,
which ordinarily RENTS about this
time.
4. Wool growers should compare
the prices they receive from their
association NOT with prices offered
by few dealers at the end of the
year when the association settles up,
but with prices paid THROUGHOUT
the entire year. 1t is the average as
sociation price, and the dealers av-
erage price which show conclusively
the benefits of cooperative wool
marketing.
5. Orderly marketing does not
mean holding or specializing for peak
prices. No one consistently sells on
the peak market. Statistics show
that as many miss the high markets
as hit them. Statistics also show
that over a period of years, orderly
a portion Of the wool clip
month by month results In the best
average prices. This should be plain
to every grower as 1t is this very
principle that has made money for
wool dealers. The association mar
kets wool direct to mills In an order
ly manner. This makes 1t IMPOS-
S1BLE to close pools quickly. This
ls Just what farmers have organized
to prevent--the dumping Of any en-
tire farm crop on the market at any
one time. Accordingly growers are
asked to be patient In the matter of
receiving returns. They will always
be sent out as promptly as any pool
Is closed.
These principles of cooperative
were endorsed by Presi-
dent Harding. Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Wallace and Secretary Of Com
merce Hoover, and your own repre-
senatiyes at the national agricultural
Just closed In Washing
ton. Why not endorse them and fol-
low them yourselves?
These same principles Of co-opera-
tive mearketlng of graded products
in an orderly manner direct to con-
sumers at actual cost OF distribution
have made millions OF dollars for
the members of the California mar
keting associations. They will make
for you II you will but live
them, think them, sleep them, and
convince your neighbor of their
sound truth. Try It!
F. W. HERRIN.
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