Milford chronicle., 1923-11-30
SOUND ADVICE GIVEN
DELAWARE FARMERS
Secretary Of National Association
Of Cooperative Marketing Says
Our Farmers Should Unite.
A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY
With Proper Care In Marketing
Diamond State Should Bios
som, He Says.

That Delaware farmers are just as
successful producers, raise equally as
good, and in some instances better
produce and vegetables than Califor-
mia and other states, but that Della
ware farmers do not become wealthy
because they have not organized for
the marketing of their products, was
the important message which Aaron
Sapiro, secretary of the National AS
ISOLATION of Cooperative Marketing,
brought to half a dozen of the larg-
est agricultural sections of the State
last week.
Mr.. Sapiro, who is a self-made man,
is one of those virile personalities
whose remarks have the facility of
sinking home on his hearers, and as a
result of his weeks lectures in Della
ware, much good 1t is believed, will
be accomplished in this one weakness
that appears to be holding back the
prosperity of Delaware agriculturists.
In his addresses in Delaware Mr..
Sapiro pointed out that throughout
the United States there were two
groups who came to the farmers and
held up their plans as the one way in
which agriculturists could succeed.
The first of these groups are the po-,
litical manOuverists who say to the
farmer, you elect us to Congress or
Senator and we will pass laws that
will remedy all your troubles. This
crowd predominant largely in the
northwestern and in some southern
sections.
The second group of apostles are
those who deal with the farmers
problems as an economic matter. This
group of economists, as they are
some times called, tell the farmers
that laws won't eradicate his selling
problems. They say to the farmer, find
your defect and then apply the reme-
dy. This economists group points to
the successful organizations that have
been effectively brought about
throughout the country and the result
has always been the samoa success
full marketing of crops.
In a nutshell, Mr.. Sapiro's idea is
that if the farmers have shown their
ability to raise as much and as fine a
quality of fruit and vegetables as it
is possible for the soil to produce, it
is just as essential that they should
market those products to the best adj
vantage as it is to raise such fine
crops. In Delaware, Mr.. Sapiro pointed
out, farmers have shown their ability
to raise strawberries, sweet potatoes,
apples, fruits and poultry equal to
any farmers in the United States. But !
where the Delaware farmers have fail
ed, has been in the distribution of and |
end. Regardless of bow
market conditions are, the Delaware |
farmers, like farmers of other states, |
where they are not organized in the |
pooling of products, fruits and vege-
tables have been shipping to big city
markets, just as the product was har-
vested. In other words if Maine pota-
toes flooded the New York and Phila-
delphia markets, Delaware potatoes
were shipped just the same and as
brought lower prices.
Wherever pooling Of products has
been put into effect, the farmers
through their organization have stud
ed market conditions and if Maine To-
.atoes were in abundance in New York
md Philadelphia, farmers would Gefer
their potatoes until the glut
was over and then they could OBTAIN
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