The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-01-26
Tl0P MARKETING
{ SYSTEM ClJTSSPEC-
ULATIVE WASTE
o.,.res Efficiency of PrOduc-
sspiFo p.n;zatiOns Gives Farmers
as OiS 1-;ees and Brings Larger
B'I'u of Credit at Lower Inter-
.st Rates.
~ Aaron SapirO

- then IS PLO00'0 49, .
HsI', t.. the farmer from the slave
H'n' ~ .cape,gOat to the merchan-
90 - master of the markets of the
.. 1i furthermore, it is a process
''na 10. attained its ends wherever
.1 s.i bee been consistently applied.
=, 5ozen years ago, Fresno, Cali
! WI : town which one might call
i'll. .itsl Of two of the biggest CO
% 'a .;,,s marketing associations in
,.ts was down and out. Trav-
'' ' .alssmen had quit making" the
'ls bseause the credit Of its mer-
...t, was not any good.
CITY Dependent on Farmers
NJ. little city like many moderate
=. - communities, most of which
~ ~ realize it, was absolutely de-
.-,.,t upOn the welfare of the sur
-.Jno agricultural population, and
\. surrounding agricultural pOpula-
4, was dead broke.
T,l.v YOUR last census will tell
! Fresno. California, is the rich
! 0laee for its size of any town in
!. limited States. Of the so richest
.-;.ultural counties in America, ten
ii California. The first two are
California, and five of the first ten
! in Califonia-and California is
\ land of speciality crops between
,NO and 5000 miles from its princi-
!. market, with irrigation problems,
y competition of Japanese farm la
Y, and other limitations that do not
my to many Of the other rich agri-
rltural sections Of the United States.
California stands first in rural
nsis and in rural schools, and first
4 the salaries paid to rural school
tsscbers and rural ministers.
CO-Ops Solve Problems
Cooperative marketing did this
ia it practically all.
Now such a Development as this is
he fruits of many years of correct
cooperation, but sometimes the eff
let Of proper cooperative marketing
almost instantly apparent.
Down in the white Burley tobacco
asricts Of Kentucky, Ohio and Indi-
ma where Judge Robert Bingham,
Nth the help Of other far-seeing lead
@ organized the tobacco farmers
almost overnight into the Burley To-
Sacco Growers association, which sold
bout 70 per cent Of the entire Bur
h tobacco crop in the first year Of
y operation, there are families of
Aaftky tobacco farmers that have
alght shoes for the feet of their
dadren this fall for the first time in
irs years.
Cotton Movement Growing.
i does not always work anything
Ike that. You don't usually control
crop to that extent in the first year
operation. You have the mortgage
h'ulty to overcome, vast numbers of
''e Or less ignorant farmers to edu-
Aa 70 a loyal support of their or
Inization.
The American Cotton Growers ex-
lage represents this year, the sec
y Of its operation, only between
e-i0urth and one-fifth of the Ameri- |
y cotton crop, and it can't get hold |
aA Of that because so much of it
Iaer mortgage, but it is function
snaently and the cotton coopera-
Y movement is running forward by
Y and bounds. The new wheat
aeed Ia 81
Beginners Make Mistakes.
.ne great majority Of speciality crop
SITUATIONS, in the localities where
N nave been set up, are meeting
genuine success at the outset;
every once in a while there are
'1us Olunders Of a costly naure.
anew one speciality crop oreani-
\ ~ n the East, properly organized
~, 'on'Tolling nearly half of the
n /. Which almost came a cropper
,,- - nrSt year Of its organization
\. ign \ trying to handle business be-
57,bl. = prepared to, then being
sn r,.,s mishandled by a grossly in
\. ''sl' manager, and, in addition.
sssl.. si'ked into huge losses by a
s1s5 ~ group which formerly con-
"'o The industry.
g0, lunoIes Frequent in Past.
N t sia'ely' however, these tumbles
.isy ~ IN the past, are rare
.ra s aaa recovery is prompt. The
y, sta.atiOn in question is on its feet
N an ny doing business this year.
ssm. ~. over the country new organi-
n sprlnging up almost every
Ibor