The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-04-06
DIR. LEE DAVIS LODGE TALKS
OF COOPERATIVE MARKETING

! it in an insurable state. Weather dam.
age of cotton in the South runs into
enormous amounts annually. The
association will secure the cheapest
possible warehouse rates. and they
| Will be able to store cotton much
cheaper than the individual owing ia
the enormous volume of business.
Grading and Stapling.
When you deliver your cotton to the
association it is weighed, graded AMI
stapled, and a receipt showing this
grade, staple and weight is given you
This work is done by the best, most
expert cotton graders whom the asso-
citation can hire for you. When this
cotton is sold it is sold by the asso-
cations grade and staple, thus you
see for the first time in the history
of the world a cotton farmer selling
on his own grade and staple. This you
see does away with the incompetent
or dishonest cotton buyer.
Pooling, Financing and Selling.
All cotton of the same grade and
staple will be pooled and every man
will receive the same price for the
same quality of product
When the cotton is delivered the
association will advance a reasonable
amount if the grower desires. Then
as sales are made from time to time
throughout the cotton year the money
is prOrated among the growers inter
ested. This is selling organization
and not holding organization. The
Texas association has already sold 70
per cent of it's holdings and the men,
bers have been receiving from $40 to
$15 per bale more than the individual
seller on the outside. These sales are
made not by an unframed producer
but by the most competent cotton SELL
ing agent who can be hired A man
who knows cotton from the beginning
to the end, man who knows supply
and demand and a man who knows
the markets that are willing to pay
the most for a particular grade and
staple of cotton.
The association receipt is negot "a
bic receipt and every one can be dis
counted with the Federal Reserve. The
TXas association was such a good
financial risk that the War Finance
Corporation extended them SIS ,0O0,-
600 line of credit.
General Advantages.
The association will sell cotton all
during the year and payments will be
made as sales are made, this will we
us money not just for short period
but we will have a little cash coming
in all during the year. Receiving our
money in this way it will do us more
good than getting it all at once.
When we receive more money for
our cotton it means better roads, bet
ter schools, better churches and let
ter everything. 1t will take our wives
and little children out Of the cotton
fields where they do not belong. The
association will gather information in
regard to cost of production, and we
must have a price which will give us
a just. fair and reasonable profit. We
must have a standard of living in
keeping with what we deserve, and
we deserve comfortable homes, ccm-
Portable furniture, palatable food and
education.
Cooperative marketing is no longer
an experiment. 1t has made Cali
fornia rich and it is proving practica-
BILE and profitable everywhere it is
being tried. Union county farmers
should help their brother farmers of
this state to perfect an organization
along with our sister states. Every
cotton-growing state of any conse-
quence has an organization already
perfected or is working toward that
end. We must not fail.
We need confidence in ourselves and
confidence in our fellow man to re-
store normalcy.
We must have faith in this great
movement for faith is it's foundation.