The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1922-07-19
COTTON MARKETING
PLAN OF BUREAU
State Chairman of Farm Bureau
Says it Means Saving of
Two to Four Million.

jackson, Miss, July 15.-"The re-
Gently launched plan Of the Missis-
sippi Farm Bureau Federation to
form cotton marketing pool in Mis-
sissippi Of two hundred thousand
bales. will mean a direct saving of
from $4,000, 900 to $4,000, 900 based
on the minimum savings of the Tex
as, Oklahoma. and Arizona associa-
tions, said B. B. Virgins. Chairman
of the Farm Bureau Marketing Or
ganization Committee, following a
conference here today. Mr.. Virgins
is a Kinds county cotton farmer who
is devoting his time to the spread Of
the great co-opertive marketing
movement throughout Mississippi
Explaining just how the farmers in
other states have increased their in
comes by very large amounts. Mr..
Virgins said. sThey have elimina-
ted every penny of country damage,
which, according to government es-
Inmates varies from $500 to $500
bale. This saving is brought a.
bout because the farmers deliver the
cotton to the association Immediately
after 1t is ginned.
They have taken over warehous-
es by lease or by favorable contracts
with the owners and have reduced
warehousing charges to a fair min
imum basis, making it so that every
farmer can afford to and is glad to
see his cotton placed in bonded ware
houses where it is fully protected
from weather and properly covered
by insurance.
ITO grade and staple their cot
ton, the associations of Texas, Okla
homa, Arizona, and the Mississippi
delta are hiring experts. This is the
first time in history that the men
who grade cotton are responsible to
the farmer and not to the buyer.
Farmers are. therefore, insured ev-
cry possible premium for grade and
staple, and this item alone is aver
aging close to $1,000 a bale"
Mr.. Virgins explained further
that the present practice of taking
from six to ten samples from each
bale is replaced by the taking of on
ly one sample and even this sample,
after being used is sold for the BEN
eft of the farmer.
The farmers in the organized
states have also eliminated unneces-
sary buyers. many of whom have been
taking toll far beyond the value of
services rendered, and by eliminat-
ing spectators and gamblers. and
dealing direct with the spinners and
exporters, they are greatly reducing
the cost of expense under the pres
ent system of getting cotton from the
farmer to the spinner.
Mr.. Virgins pointed out that the
spinners have, through their nation
al association, recently endorsed the
cooperative cotton marketing move
ment and are glad to purchase from
the cooperative associations.
"A finI great change" said Mr..
Virgins. lis that through their as
sociations the farmers are substitute
ing orderly marketing for dumping,
which in itself is bound to increase
the average price paid throughout
the year"
Mr.. Virgins is being aided in the
work of organizing a Cotton Mar
keting Association, by fifteen other
cotton growers, bankers, and mer-
chants of the state. All of these men
are serving without pay, except for
the better prices they will secure for
their own cotton and for the pros
perity that will come to their COM
munities through this new system.