The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-04-27
Cooperative Marketing.
The following editorial is taken
from the Charleston News and Cour-
iar of Thursday. April Goth:

The following editorial is taken
from the Charleston News and Cour-
ier of Thursday, April Goth:
There has never been anything IN
the history of agriculture in this coun-
try to compare with the way the CO.
operative 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 g great cooperative
association for the selling Of their
product marks the elimination of this
movement. The reports published IN
the news columns from day to day
show that 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 assocla-
ton effective in South Carolina.
Governor Cooper has issued a pro-
clamation setting aside April 25 as
"Cooperation Day" in this state and
calling upon the business men 20 de-
vote that day to assisting in every
WY possible in securing the sigma
lures Of cotton growers to the CO.
operative marketing contracts, in the
confident belief tnat "such system
of selling will be of great benefit
to our producers and indirectly to
ell of our people"
Cooperative marketing is net 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
citrus fruits. In Kentucky :nd 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 on
this question through his work in
California, to reorganize and reform
the marketing of Burley tobacco.
Their efforts up to this time have
succeeded far beyond anything they
we're promised or led to expect and
whereas last year Burley tobacco sold
at prices which spelled bankruptcy
for the growers, this year such OF
the crop as ,,as been sold mas brought
very comfortable profit indeed.
Not all the crop has yet been mar
keted, this being considered inadvis-
able, but the growers nave demon
strated their ability to dominate the
situation, so long as they are gov
erned by reason and common sense
and fair principles, and so complete
~ has the situation changed that it
is now possible to borrow on Burley
tobacco still held in warehouses as
much money per pound as the same
tobacco sold for last year. Judge
Robert Bingham, of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, who is himself
large grower of Burley tobacco, stat
I'd during his visit in Charleston last
week that the results Of cooperative
marketing sInong the tobacco growers
Of Kentucky have already wrought
the financial emancipation Of thous-
ands Of these people. It has changed
the whole outlook Of a section.
Judge Bingham, who has given
great 6eal of time and study to this
question, entertains no doubt what
ever that cooperative marketing can
do for the tobacco growers of Vir-
ginia and the Carolinas and for the
cotton growers of the entire South
what it mas done already for the
citrus 4ruit and vegetable people In
California and for the Burley tobac-
60 people in Kentucky. The bene-
fits of cooperative marketing IS ap-
Piled to the sale of swine was illus
trated in Georgia week or two ago
IN a sale OF packer hogs conducted
at Tennille in Washington county,
under The auspices of the Georgia
Swine Growers Association. This
sale had been well advertised and
had attracted fully dozen buyers
representing packers and private in
terests and in twenty minutes the
sale of more than 100000 pounds of
fat hogs, $4,000 pounds of which ran
No. 1 prime, was concluded ct $40
a hundred, f. o. b., Tennille, spot cash,
the Southeastern market for the day
being only 8 cents for tops. About
$50 farmers had hogs in this lot and