Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-11
MARKET FEDERATION
PLAN IS APPROVED
AT MEETING FRIDAY
Many Notable Addresses
Stressing Need of Concert
ed Effort and General Dis
cussion Feature Meeting

bankers, business men, farmers and
others from various sections CT
Georgia a prospectus for the Geor-
gia Farm Markets federation, as
formulated by the organization COM
nittee, was unanimously adopted
Friday morning. The action came
as a fitting climax to}a number OF
notable addresses and general dis
cussicn relating to the necessity Of
providing facilities for the better
marketing of Georgia farm products.
AS agreed upon the Georgia Farm
Markets federation will be a mutual.
civic. cooperative organization for
the purposes of:
(a), Effecting closer cooperation
and mutually helpful, relations be-
tween the agricultural and CONNER
cial interests of the state.
(b), Bringing about a greater and
more widespread crop Investigation.
(c) Promoting the increased con-
sumption of Georgia products.
I'D Encouraging and establishing
better and more profitable system
of marketing.
(e) Conducting publicity and adj
vertising campaigns to encourage
the sale of Georgia products.
II Encouraging the production Of
higher standard of quality of prod.
ucts.
(g) Assisting in the establishment
of standard grades and packing OF
Georgia products.
hi Promoting better and more ex-
tensive warehouses and storing ia
cil1ties, and more thorough and prac-
teal preparation of products for the
markets.
ID Co-ordinating and decorating the
efforts of all organizations within the
state which have these same objects.
or any of them.
To Be Incorporated
G.) Encouraging and assisting in
the formation and operation of the
local cooperative association of the
producers of farm commodities.
(k) Stabilizing these commodities
so fur as possible as collateral for
bank loans. s6e
q The market federation will be in
corporated under the general cor.
poration laws of Georgia, and it's
membership will be restricted to in
dividual producers of agricultural
products, to local exchanges and or
CARNATIONS, and to non-producers de-
string to support and encourage the
movement.
The organization will be directed
by a board of directors, of whom ten
will be elected by the, common stock
ers, five by the preferred stockhold-
ers and one each by the local organi-
cations taking membership in the
federation.
Thee corporation will function
along commodity lines, and will have
a president and general manager,
twelve vice presidents, one from
each congressional district; a secre-
tary, a treasurer, and such division.
managers as may be required.
It will begin business with a mini
mum common stock Of $25,000,' with
authority to increase to $25O,OOO.
The dues to individual members will
be $40 a year, and to corporations,
not agricultural, $25 a year The
temporary board of directors, which
fist approved the prospectus, and
which will continue to function until
after the charter has been secured,
follows: L.. r. Adams, Atlanta,
chairman; Peter r. Kittles, Syl-
vania; j. S. Peters, Manchester; M.
L. Lee, Moultric; B. w. Hunt, Ea-
tonton; Ely r. Galloway, LAGRANGE;
J. w. Vaughan, Cartersville; G. 0.
Carpenter, Macon; J. S. Kennedy.
Atlanta; J. NJ. Ross. Atlanta; A. E..
Sims, Atlanta; M. w. Bell, Atlanta;
Haynes McF'adden, Atlanta; Ralph
Smith, Atlanta.
Hunter Made Chairman
With the election of w. B. Hunter,
president Of the Georgia Fruit ex-
change, as chairman, the meeting
got under way at 10 o'clock Friday
morning. The attendance was graf
ifyingly large and representative,
notwithstanding the heavy rains
throughout the state, which brought
to Mr.. Adams kilograms from many
who had been unable to negotiate
the roads.
In accepting the Craftsmanship Of
the meeting, Mr.. Hunter, who has
made a notable success of the Geor-
gia Fruit exchange, dwelt upon the
potentialities of the movement to
foster the organization Of co-opera-
tive commodity association among
the farmers Of Georgia, and, in this
connection, declared that it would be
his pleasure and the pleasure Of the
Georgia Fruit exchange to lend the
movement every assistance possible.
ST view this meeting as a dream
assuming tangibility," said Mr..
Hunter.
1t has been my IDEA. Tor years
that the salvation Of the farmers of
the state is in cooperative marketing
of their products through the estab-
lishn4-nt of a central marketing
agency such as is to be provided by
the Georgia Farm Market fedora
ton. 1t is because Of this that
regard this gathering today as a
conspicuous milestone in the move
ment for the salvation Of the farmer
"a salvation that is to be found,
not in legislation, but in co-opera-
ton.
''It is gratifying to appreciate, as
everyone now appreciates, that the