Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-11-20
WE CAN'T ourouEss THE MARKEr-A few

m, for more money This will always be the case ne
man who assumes that he would have sold his cotton at
the ton of the market will always be able to figure out
how he would have done outside the marketing
ISOLATION But he to forget that he has only one
chance ont of about twenty-five sell the top price
Only per cent sell at the top prices This is because
Tho man has not vet been born who when to sell
cotton.
If the member of the cooperative who thinks he knows
when to sell cotton and would have sold at the top price
really knew how do that he would not long continue
IN the hard business of producing cotton. He would
make his millions in year two and have no need or
farming or the cooperative marketing association and
could Give happily everafter"
The basic or fundamental principle of cooperative mar
ketne of cotton is orderly marketing which means sell
ling cotton all the time or every month in the year, be-
cause is used month nthe year The coop
eratives will not should not and not sell their cot
ION all time at the top price They Will not and
can not sell the top price, because no one can do that
for no one knows the top price They should not attempt
to sell all their cotton at time at any price, for the
chances they viii not get the top price they did at
tempt OF sell it, and many times would sell for less than
they now get by selling all the time getting the average
trce By selling orderly and refusing dump their cot
ION and forcing prices down. they better average
price than under the old dumping system.
The cooperatives will never get the top price for all
their cotton They will get better than prices by
he old methods of selling but who has the slight
est knowlede of the principles of cooperative commod
y marketing of cotton will expect these associations to
cv get the top price On the other hand they will new
or get the lowest price They will simply get better
average price for their members than is obtained by
farmers who market in the old way.
1t is, therefore, rank nonsense for any member OF
cooperative marketing association complain that he
lost So or $15 any other amount per BALE by mar
letng his cotton thru the cooperative. He can, with the
same lack of reason, claim that he has lost every
year he failed get the top price when he was not
member of a cooperative.
But he can claim, with the best OF reason that in
term of years he and will continue get through the
cooperative better average price than those outside the
association who dump their the market in the
fall or during three four months Even last year those
who sold their cotton early and those who sold it late
got less than the average and less than received by
bers of the cooperatives.
The average man outside the association sell
his for the top price and those inside have
son to assume that they could would have done So
The average who is not member of cooperative
must sell when he is told to do by those he
He is usually forced to sell cotton when it is go
ing down and therefore seldom gets the average
price
Why do the cooperative associations pay their mem
hers than the average price? Why do members OF
these associations get year with another than
those who sell in the old way?
FIRST-As shown by the report of the Federal Trade
Commission it the ceoperatves less market cot
toh than it does the merchant or broker under the ole
system
SECOND-The member of the cooperative gets paio
for the actual grade of his cotton while the man who
sells from the wagon the old gets paid for eas
grade lower than his cotton actually is
THlRD-There is less country damage, warehous
charges less his better insured the cooper
atves pay lower of interest than the individual
merchant and the member of the cooperative is paid tn
rebate in freight which compressed or store
in transit
FOURTH-The member of cooperative and not tn
merchant gets the money which the samples and ZOOS
cotton bring when sold. There are other reasons bu
these ought to be enough
The Federal Trade Commission after thoro and in,
partial investigation declares that the cooperatives pa
their members than the large merchants paw til
country merchants local buyers who buy the cotto
from the farmers This being true it goes without say
ing that the cooperatves pay their members NOR
than the local buyers pay nonmembers.
The member of cotton cooperative marketing asso
CATION who claims that he has lost money by marketn
his cotton through his association simply foong him
self or allowing the enemies of cooperative marketing
fool him. The only escape from this is for him to assum
that he could would market his cotton for top
near top prices and in such he is still foolng him
self, for no man knows when market cotton
The only safe and plan is market it at all time
because cotton is used all times-The Progressiv
Farmer.
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