The free press., 1923-09-27
The Sun Begins
To Shine On Dixie
Farmers Market Gotten Comparatively


rated cost of operation. The farmer
secures fair and accurate grading
of his product, by experts employed
|by the association. Very few farn.crs
are able to grade for themselves,
and this is one of the large leakases
of farm products, especially cotton.
His cotton is sold for him, by ex-
perts hired to serve him, who. know
just as much about the value of the
product as the men who buy
All Cotton Pooled.
All cotton is pooled according to
grade and staple and is sold over a
period Of about ten months. The
average price of cotton is almost
consistently higher during the year
than of the Fall of the year price,
when the market is flooded under
the old system of selling. In selling
over a period of ten months the CO.
operatives seek to stop flooding the
| market with subsequent break in
price due to years supply Of cot
ton being dumped on the market
within three months time.
The elimination of waste and dam
age, large volume of business and
direct sales, in an orderly manner, as
the demand is created, to the mills
and foreign trade are methods by
which associations stabilize the mar
kets and bring more money to the
producers for their cotton.
Under boil weevil conditions
farming must be done scientifically
to grow cotton profitably. Modern
methods must oe employed requiring
fertilizers, expensive machinery and
labor The money for this is not
available except through the product
itself.
| Intelligent production will unques-
/ tionably follow intelligent marketing.
| Cooperative marketing puts more
/ money on the farms for the things
utilized in intelligent production. We
may preach the use Of fertilizers and
machinery but it takes money
| to put it into practice.
/ That cooperative marketing has
proven successful is shown in the
| following summary given by DIR.
! Clarence Poe, editor of the Progress
sive Farmer and one of the South's
best known agricultural leaders:
/ "Co-operative marketing has vim
dicted itself. That much may be
safely said as result of the first
wears South-wide test. AS Josh
Billings said, It's no use to argy
! agin' success and with 25 to ~
cent cotton and tobacco-well hardly
anybody any longer doubts that the
prices Of both cotton and tobacco
have been betered as a result OF the
\ gradual and orderly marketing grow
ing out of cooperative organizations
although as yet but partially organ
4 ized. With great majority OF
growers in, results will be much more
gratifying
"The farmers, too, have gratltled
their friends and confounded their
enemies by the safe, sane, capable,
business-like men generally elected
as directors in all parts Of the South.
Growers have realized that they
were setting up great business ana
financial organizations, and nave
. tried to find men who were not
mere agitators or orators, but men
of level head, sound heart ana
strong backbone--and. directors DO
need to be right in backbone as wen
as heart and head"
a With two strong associations re-
ceiving the loyal, Intelligent CO.
oneration' of their members, cotton
growers Of Mississippi have taken
long step in the right direction In
lifting the marketing end OF their IN
/ dustry out of the rut, as arc al
cotton growers throughout the soutn.
j The results will be determined IN
. larger returns to the growers whscn
viii be reflected in better homes fnd
farms. more schools and churches
hriohter future for the children on
the cotton growing farms and
Greater outlook for Mississippi and
the South.