Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-01
WILL THE CABBAGE.
GROWERSORGANIZE|

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court house has been pretty we'll fill
ed with cabbage growers for the last
two Saturdays, discussing the cabbage
marketing situation. This discussion
has been going on in this county for
a number of years. We have heard
lots of farmers say that some plan
should be arranged whereby each
hauler would not be in competition
with every other hauler but would
have some agreement on the price.
It seems that the plan that they are
working on will help greatly to bring
about this very thing, and those who
are working on it with County Agent
Steele and our saur kraut man, Mr..
Blair, are convinced that it can be
put into operation if the farmers of
the county will get behind it.
About thirty farmers, as good as
there are in the county, have put their
names on the contract and by so
doing have expressed their faith in
the movement and their intention to
help put it across. We are told that
it will be necessary to have one hund-
red farmers on the list before the
undertaking can be organized. The
business men of Boone, who are
naturally interested inanything that
will help Watauga produce to bring
more money into the county, have
expressed their willingness to back
the undertaking in a financial way
whenever it is needed.
The aim of the organization is to
grade and standardize all cabbage
that goes out of the county under
the name of the association, and TO
see to it that every cabbage is good
and packed in the best salable form.
All cabbage that will not come up
to the shipping will be made into
kraut. Then an advertising campaign
will be put on by the aid Of the
County Agents in the other counties
until every body will know these
Watauga products are for sale.
1t the farmers who join this move
ment elect the right kind of direct
ors it is hard to see how anything but
success can come out of it: Produce
fixed up in good shape, so that it
is attractive to the buyer, can not
fail to bring more money than when
marketed in the old fashioned way
The biggest saving, it seems to us,
is in. time. One prominent farmer
who is just back from trip to Alex
ander county with load of cabbage
says that he has been gone eleven
days. Now, if he counts out the value
of his time his cabbage didn't bring
much. Watauga has great natural
advantages in growing cabbage and
it should be one Of the best money
crops in the county if it is handled
in business way.
The state authorities have shown
that they are anxious to help in this
matter by employing Mr.. Blair and
Mr.. Steele to help the farmers do
this thing. They are employed, as
we understand it, to collect all the
information they can in this and other
states that will help the cabbage and
kraut producers. 1t is also their duty
to help the farmers bring about this
organization and to assist the di-
rectors of the organization in making
the business success. Of course
these men can't go around to every
body's house and beg them to join
in the movement; if the farmers are
interested, and they are the ones that
should be, it is up to them to come
see these men and help to make this
proposition go.