Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-18
WHAT DID YOUGET
FOR YOUR COTTON?

cotton for than "a cents pound $3.50
ucke than 80 cent of the Independent
farmers south you Just lucky That's all.
And yet lucky you might have been.
middng cotton selling in Atlanta around %
cents, S $14O a
sold cotton for about 81 cents
bale. The cotton sold for 1O5 bale
is worth $40
good of the difference between what
got for your cotton the price selling today?
yourself that question.
yourself this question:
''Why did I sell my cotton when did,"
you find?
Only one of things Either you
price would go thought you
better take the price then, you
Now, you what the price of going
be, you just like everybody else in the world
Nobody knew what the price going to be later.
people who know about cotton than
lot of people who know such facts
be known about probable consumption and probable
ply who know this much no
what the market price of cotton is going to be-
Yet these people cotton
great the who the
the all the prices
prevail August to July 81 of the going
higher than the price that prevails during the time when
dumping cotton the
They know that the who has sufficient amount of cot
little from time to time is going get for his
than he would have had he sold
all during the time the market glutted
Now that's exactly cooperative marketing
tons do Thew have as sales managers the abe cotton men
better.
these highly trained know how high cotton is going
WHEN is going that high figure these cooperative
sociations sell their cotton gradually.
That means that going to get average
An price is fair price 1t not be the
highest price year. won't be the owestnot by
long shot.
Ike
cotton for than "a 1t
sold little for less than rs cents pound It is today selling
pound that might been thrown
the market for 22 cents the producer hadn't had wisdom to
join
1t to cotton
goes higher higher price If
lower it will sell at the lower price.
But the big thing sold all of its cotton,
every the basis of the
price during association
selling
And you can bet your figure
southern had
last fall.
If you fall, you unfortunate. But it
probably necessary.
Do you know that the cooperative Georgia.
Alabama Carolina South Carolina Arkansas and Texas
memb $50 bale his cotton the minute
to the association? Do
they position borrow the cotton
cheaper rate than individual farmer and that they
all the cotton produced in their states
hundreds of patriotic banks tie south
glad to lend $40 advance, working
as they n cooperation with the association?
you the associations and in
the cotton of their
Do you know July year. every
will make full settlement with each of it's
obtained during the
handling each BALE and that
pro probably less than amount each
undergrading had he sold in the
TrWeeky Journal tells it earnestly advocates the
cooperative marketing has week and
February of last when it
investigator and Oklahoma study the
operative associations which doing business there
Everything happened then has confirmed the
the coopeatives They not peecthat could
they giving the farmer more for his
e could have without their aid
side and punish yourself and your family
question. articles printing in The
TrWeey issue and when have
seen light, join your association.
already the light but don't know how
about joining.
If you are to talk with your
the editor of The Tri-Weekly
Atlanta, will that Immediately
put in the proper person
you have thrown SIS to $40 bale cotton