The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
m OPEN CAMPAIGN
FOR AN ASSOCIATION
VIRGINIA MARKETING Elk
DEPT WILL ADDRESS MEET
ING AT DAWSON.
LARGE CROWD is EXPECTED
,srantages of COOPERATIVE Sale of
~ products Will Be Explained in De-
all Has Made Money for Produc-
-. IN California and Virginia.

ers in California aiiu ""'
countrywide movement to enlist
"A ;nterpst OF Terrell county farmers
inc .tI -. organization of Peanut Grow
IL 'i'N Co-Operative Association for
.eel s Georgia is now being push
co. Mr. John H. Mock, of Albany, and
Mr. T. Kelley Simmons, OF Nashville,
- ai,l are in charge of the organization
Wei, have visited Dawson in the in
. @rf OF the movement, and as a re-
VII = meeting OF the peanut growers
"; Terrell county has been called for
= o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Mar.
3Ist at the court house in Dawson.
f. M. Defender to Speak.
Mr. f. NJ. Defender, the Califor-
Ma marketing expert who is now
s n,r the Virginia Peanut Growers
Association as sales manager, will at
tend tend the meeting in Terrell coun-
" and will speak. Some of our farm
ers heard Mr.. Defender at Albany
some time ago, and remember the
yerv inspiring address he delivered
there on the subject OF cooperative
marketing of peanuts.
Mr. Defender won a national rep
ntation through the work he did in
connection with the raisin growers as
ISOLATION in California. This organiza-
ton was not only able to sell the
growers crop at profit through a ra-
tional marketing system, but devel-
ooed a demand for raisins so that
a greatly increased production has
been marketed quite as proftably to
the growers. A short while ago the
Peanut Growers Association in Vir-
ginia was about on the rocks and Mr..
Defender was sent for and he under
took to straighten out the tangle in
which the Virginia growers had be-
come involved In addition to the mis-
takes the growers had made there
were big business interests to fight
and it appeared to be hopeless task.
But the Virginia growers have won
the fight and have reaped an enor-
nous benefit from their cooperative
organization and selling agency. Mr..
Defender will fell you how it was
done-and how it can be done here.
Every Farmer Should Attend.
Every farmer in Terrell county who
is planning to grow peanuts this year
or who ever expects to grow peanuts
again for the market should not fail
to attend this meeting. 1t rs
not only important to do some
thing, but it is very important to
know what you are doing. At
/ this meeting there will be man
who can give all the information
there is available upon the co-opera-
tive marketing of farm products. The
farmers will not have another oppor-
tunitv to get this information first
hand. 1t is therefore of the utmost i'm
portance that every man, who really
is in earnest and wants to find way
to insure himself and his neighbor a
better price for his peanuts and a bet
ter plan for handling them i'll order
to secure better prices, to attend
and learn for himself what can be
done about it,
The first and most important task
is to get the peanut growers thor
oughly informed as to what it is pro-
posed to do, and to understand the
system under which it is proposed to
operate. 1t is not desired to get lot
ol people 10 go DulIuly liIto tlle a99o
cation. But it is not believed that
any thoughtful man can be kept out
OF it once he thoroughly understands
the organization and the objective
sought. The growers will probably
be asked to sign up for term OF
years, There will be details regarding
the grading, storing and the method
Of payment for the crop and much
other information which every farmer
will want to be informed about be
fore he signs the contract-and it is
contract, a strictly business instru-
ment which has been passed upon by
competent attorneys. This information
will be available to those who attend
the meeting tomorrow.
Local Representatives
Messrs. K. S. Worthy and Gay
Raines are the local representatives oil
the association, and will put forth ev-
cry effort to enlist the farmers of Ter
reIl county in this cooperative move
ment for the sale of one of their
principal products.