Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-21
Franklin Leads State With
$4,000 Bales Pledged to
Cooperative Marketing
Associations Agents

Eight counties were reported over
the top with their minimum quotas
signed to the Georgia cotton pool by
noon Saturday, according to an
nouncement made at the headquar-
tiers of the Georgia Cotton Growers
Cooperative association.
A county quota, it was explained
It the headquarters, consists of one
third of the entire cotton production
of the county, and the following
counties are already listed on the
honor roll of the association, having
achieved their quotas in the follow
ing order: Hart, Banks, Wheeler,
Clay, Dodge, Clarke, Franklin and
Bulloch.
in quantity of cotton signed to
date Franklin leads the stale with
1900 bales. In proportion of the
entire Gotten crop Of the county
signed, the limited cotton county of
Wheeler stands first with 2,2OC bales
signed to the association out of a
total production (the 1920 crop is
used as a basis of $3.50 bales.
''Victory week" drice of the asso-
cation, according to reports received
on Saturday, netted the cotton pool
between As 900 and $4,000 bales, leav-
ing $4,000 bales yet to be obtained
before the association will have got
ten the minimum of 100000 bales
necessary to make the campaign a
success.
1000 Volunteer Farmers
Twelve hundred volunteer farmer
workers actively took the field for
the assocte ton during Victory
week." AMI they will continue on the
Job until The association is put over.
Monday begins what is known as
"follow-up week" in the association
organization program, and after that
will come cleanup week" which
will bring the entire campaign to
close on Saturday, April !.
The association is exerting very
little effort in most heavily hit boil
weevil territory, and it's efforts are
concentrated in seventy-eight coun-
ties rel senting a total cotton pro-
ductioE Of 100000 bales. The as
sociation requires 100000 bales to
make its contract effective. 1t is
after, however, a third Of the cotton
b., -, i4<,.r rry11I a1a
IL is at work.
I'm spite of the fact that cur "Vic-
tory week. workers were a little
slow in getting started" stated ]. e.
Conwell, manager of the campaign,
81 still believe we are going to get
all we had hoped because we all have
faith in the farmers realization that
this is his job, and that he will stick
to this contract signing business as
courageousiy, and as, thoroughly
and with even greater success be-
tween now and the final date of the
campaign, as he has during the past
week.
However," he added, "we are not
counting any chickens before they
are Matched. 1t is most unlikely but
it is still within the realm of posi-
bility, that our entire campaign
might not succeed. All tnat TIE
farmers have to do to keep it from
succeeding is to get the idea that
we are practically over the top, and
they do not have to go out and sign
their neighbors, and then wait for
"ieorgia' to do it.
Headquarters Enthusiastic
"Since the beginning of last wee.i
this has been the farmers job, and
nobody's else. The speechifying and
the fireworks are over, signing the
cotton is all that counts, and nobody
can sign the farmer in airy large
numbers except the farmer who has
already signed.
1--WE are very enthusiastic around
headquarters, but not over-cLnfident.
My reason for being enthusiastic
myself is that in spite of the mean
things that have been sail about
Georgia farmers as to their inabil-
ity to organize or do anything in a
business-like way, 1 do not believe
them, and I think they have got
Ilain everyday horse sense enough
to know on which side their bread
is buttered, and fight to d finish
and to beat the band to put this
thing over"