The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
ALABAM|ANS WILL TOUR TEXAS FOR
 MARKETING DATA
Half a Hundred Farmers, Bankers and Business Men Leave Montgomery on
 January 3
By FRED II. GORMLEY Montgomery Bureau The Age Herald, 22l-2 First National Bank Building

Montgomery. December 31.-(Spe- eial.)-.Preparatory 10 launching in Alabama a farm products marketing program equivalent to, or, perhaps greater than. that ye put on by other states, about 50 Alabama farm CTS, bankers and business men will leave Montgomery and Birmingham on January 3, under the auspices of the Alabama Farm Bureau fedora ton, for a six day trip into Texas to secure first-hand information as to how the cotton, hay, watermeloHs to- mato and other Texas farm products are being so successfully marketed through commodity marketing or ganizations set up by the Texas Farm Bureau federation, according to an announcement given out by Charles W. Rittenour, president of the Ala bamA organization.
 Details of the trip have already been arranged, and those from south Alabama and the Montgomery terri tory will leave Montgomery on Louisville and Nashville train No. ? at 9:15 B. m., January 3, in a special Pullman, and at Birmingham they will be joined by the middle and north Alabama delegation and imme- mediately transferred from the Louisville and Nashville to the Frisco railroad, leaving Birmingham at l2:3O p. m. on the same day.
 Memphis to Dallas
 The party will arrive at Memphis that evening and spend three hours in that city, during which time they will secure first-hand information as to what Memphis is doing in an az ricultural way. From Memphis the party will so directly to Dallas, Texas, arriving there on the after noon of the fourth. and stay until the night of the fifth, making a thorough investigation of the organizatio and operation of the great farm bureau commodity organizations at that point.
 On the return an entire day will be spent at College Station, Texas, as guests of the Texas Agricultural college; a second day will be spent at Houston Investigating the enor- nous port warehousins facilities for cotton, tobacco and other products at that point, and third day. which will be Sunday, January 8, will be spent in New Orleans seeing the things of interest there.
 In his announcement concerning this trip, MT. Rittenour states that 30 or more Alabama counties will be represented. Most of the representa- tives are beina sent by the county farm bureaus, but in addition to these many of the chambers of com merce in the state will send a repre- sentative. The Montgomery Cham Der of Commerce will be represented by Jesse B. Herrin; the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce by J. D. Moore; the Huntsville Chamber of Commerce by Clarendon Davis: while the names of other representatives of chambers of commerce have not been reported.
 Among those going from Montgom- cry county will be Col. James NJ Williamson, Harry Houghton of the farm bureau. J. NJ. Moore of the state department of agriculture, c. W. Rit- tenour, state farm bureau president: c. K. Snellings John c. OConnel of Farm Facts and the Advertiser and Mir. Herrin.
 Others Making Trip
 Others who have been selected to make the trip are $. N. Crosby Ozark; J. E. Moses, Troy; R. c. Lett, Tuscaloosa; H. M. Lewis and Ben r. Williams. Wetumpka; John Horne, York; J. H. Tolley, Belle Nina, S. W. Fleming. Huntsville; J. D. Wood, Russellville; pr. l.. A Weaver Rog- ersville; Merbert Koonce, Florence. John Kernachan, Sheffield; Hood Courtland, Leon DuDoiS, Eu- faula; T. J. Whatley, Opelika, and Will Howard Smith, Prattville. Sev- eral other counties and county farm bureaus will be represented.
 That this trip bids fair to produce bountiful fruit for not only the farm CTS, but for every other interest In Alabama, Is signified by the advance report from Texas that this organi- zation Is marketing cotton in such way as to bring to the farmers from S10 to S15 more per bale than they would otherwise receive, and the cost of marketing cotton under this plan Is not exceeding s1 per bale. Had this method of marketing been in operation in Alabama in 1921 and | every one of the 575,000 bale cotton crop marketed in this way it would l have meant an increased income 9. from s5.750,000 to sS,625.000 to the 1 farmers, and would thereby be a big | business and professional men.
 Before reaching Dallas certain men | in the party will be authorized to | get the desired information on cotton l while others will make a | special Investigation of hay. water | melons, tomatoes, tobacco, grain | and other mark eting work-thereby | them to return to Alabama prepared to put into op- | eration big constructive farm products marketing system that will | be of direct benefit to every neces- sary individual and business in Ala oama.