The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-07
Kansas Farmers in Need of Or
ganizatiOn, MOhler Says.
Secretary of Agriculture Adj
vises Greenwood Crowd.
USE BIG BUSINESS METHODS
Have the Goods and Capital
But Need Management.
Undertaking That Challenges
Powers of Most Talented.

Eureka. Kan, Oct. Reorganization
methods similar TO those applied to
big business must be adopted if farm
advancement is to keep step with
modern business methods, according
to J. C. Mohler. secretary of the state
board of agriculture, who talked here
today to big crowd attending
countrywide farmer picnic. Only thru
organization and cooperation both I'm
production and marketing can the
farmer meet city business policies and
be assured of fair return on his In
vestment and efforts, Mohler told the
Greenwood county farmers.
Secretary Mohler was the principal
speakers at one Of the biggest farm
er meetings held in this county in a
mum Der of years. Much of his talk
was devoted to the need of united eff
forts of crop growing and marketing
and greater harmony and co-opera-
ton among the farmer bodies.
Mohler said in part:
Years ago most of the business of
the country was carried on by individ-
uRls as private enterprises. But as
time 1apsed, organizations were
formed of groups engaged along sim
liar lines, and today the business
world is we'll organized, except agri-
culture, the most important of all.
The farmer knows how to produce,
but he has had little or no hand in
the control of the marketing of his
products DeSOnQ the lIlllldl Sdlc at
the country shipping point. The
farmer still continues to pillow and
plant and reap, and deliver whatever
he has to some professed superior be-
ing at any price he can get for it.
Need Organization.
I'm watching developments in other
lines of industry. the farmer has seen
that economy and efficiency, as well
as power IN bargaining, has been Sc
cured in placing a large volume of
business under a competent, central
lied management. He has been told
that this is q benefit not only to stock
holders of such concerns but to the
consuming public as well. The farm
ers have seen that it is necessary Tor
various enterprises to secure enormous
AGGREGATES of capital before the idea
OF doing business in a large way could
be carried out, whereas the farmers
have already made this initial invest
1uent in the form of farm lands. They
have seen that other enterprises have
had to secure the goods, whereas the
farmer already has the goods. They
have seen that it was necessary to de-
velop the markets for the class OF
goods handled by many enterprises
whereas the farmers goods are ne
cessties for which a continuous de-
mand exists.
Having the capital. the goods and
the markets, farmers can see no rea-
son why the principe OF ldrBe VOL
ume of business under a centralized
management could not be applied t.
a sale Of farm products. And there
is no reason, but it will take organiza-
ton. and organization may be said to
be the greatest need of the farmers.
THE farm organizations of this
country have been of great service tc
agriculture. but as yet they have not
built a broad and comprehensive sys-
tenn of marketing their own products
This is a subject that is compelling
their attention. They Gun win with
united support of farm organizations
under wise and honest management
1t is an undertaking that challenges
the powers of the most talented, and
the type of leadership, demanded will
not be lacking when the rewards ara
as attractive as in other fields of en-