Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-04-27

getting is cents pound, in New
York. That shows what organization
will do.
J. S. HARTZELL.
There has never been anything in
the history of agriculture in this
country to compare with the way the
cooperative marketing movement has
been sweeping the South during the
past year. The campaign now in
progress to sign the cotton growers OF
the South into a great cooperative
association for the selling of their
product marks the elimination OF this
movement. The reports published in
the news columns from day 10 day
show that a considerable number OF
counties in South Carolina have al
ready secured the full number of bales
assigned as their quota of the total
necessary to make the ASSOCIATION
effective in South Carolina. Cover
nor Cooper has issued proclamation
setting aside April % as Cooperation
Day" in this State and calling upon
the business man to devote that day
TO assisting in every way possible in
securing the signatures Of cotton
growers to the cooperative market
ing contracts, in the confident belief
that "such a system of selling VIII
be Of great benefit to our producers
and indirectly to all of our people
Cooperative marketing is not an
experiment but a thoroughly tested
practice which has been followed with
the largest benefits both in Europe
and in America, notably in California
by the growers of vegetables and cit
rus fruits. In Kentucky and the
adjacent territory of the Burley to-
bacco country the growers Of tobacco
last year set out, under the advice
and direction of Mr. Sapiro, who has
become the recognized authority
this question through his work in
California, to reorganize and re form
the marketing Of Burley tobacco.
Their efforts up to this time have
succeeded far beyond anything they
were promised or led to expect and
whereas last year Burley tobacco
sold at prices which spelled bank
ruptcy for the growers, this year such
of the crop as has been sold has
brought a very comfortable profit in
deed. Not all the crop has yet been
marketed, this being considered in.
advisable, but the growers have dem
onstrated their ability to dominate
the situation, so long as they are
governed by reason and common
sense and fair principles, and so
completely has the situation changed
that it is now possible to borrow on
Burley tobacco still held in ware
house as much money per pound as
the same tobacco sold for last year.
Judge Robert Bingham, of the Louis
Vile Courier Journal, who. is himself
large grower of Burley tobacco
stated during his visit in Charleston
lats week that the results of coopera-
tive marketing among the tobacco
growers Of Kentucky have already
wrought the financial emanc,patlon
of thousands of these people. 1t has
changed the whole outlook of a sec
ton.
Judge Bingham. who has given a
great deal Of time and study 70 T.
question, entertains no doubt what
ever that cooperative marketing can
do for the tobacco growers of Virginia
and the Carolinas and for the cotton
growers of the entire South what it
has done already for the citrus fruit
and vegetable people in California
and for the Burley tobacco people IL
Kentucky. Tie benefits of coopera-
tive marketing as applied 10 the sale
of swine was illustrated in Georgia
n week or two ago in sale OF packer
hogs conducted at Tennille in Wash
ington County, under the auspices OF
the Georgia Swine Growers Associa-
ton. This sale had been well adver-
tised and had attracted fully a dozen
BUYERS representing packers ard pri-
vate interests and in twenty minutes
the sale of more than 10000 pound
Of fat hogs, 10000 pounds of which
ran No. prime, was concluded al
SO a hundred, f. 0. b. Tennille, spot
cash. the sOutheaster market for the
southeastern market for the day be-
ing only cents for tops. About l'0
farmers had hogs in this lot and the
Atlanta Constitution, which featured
the sale, sending a staff correspon-
dent to report it, declares that If any
one farmer had undertaken TO market
his three. or half dozen, or even
wagon-load of pigs Independently,
he would not have gotten more than
six cents, if that; and would have
carried his product To- market. and