Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1926-08-19
Yours very truly,
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Yours very truly,
L. E. FLOYD.
Cooperative marketing organiza
tions are suggested in the following
highly intelligent discussion of the
problem by Mr.. F. H. Abbott of the
Georgia Association:
August 6, 1926.
Mr.. Willard Cope, Exec. Secty.,
Utilities Information Com. of Ca,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Mr.. Cope
The file of correspondence betweer
Mr.. J. K. Orr, of Atlanta, and Mr.. L
E. Floyd, of Chipley, Ga, which you
kindly handed me l have read with
deepest interest. l cannot recall ever
having read three printed or type
written pages that more completely
set forth the fundamental economic
problems involved in Georgia's agri-
cultural development than the cor
respondence between these two men,
one city man, the other country
business man and farmer.
AS to Mr.. Orr and his circular let
ter this sort of thing does more, good
than Mr.. Orr himself can realize.
Not that the mere posting of the cir
cular will bring the result directly
that Mr.. Orr desires; it will not for
the very reasons so pointedly men,
toned in Mr.. Floyd's letter. The i'm
portant thing is that the very earn
estness of Mr. Orr's circular cannot
fail to impress the 1000 rural busi-
ness men he addresses that the big
business men in the great distributing
centers feel a vital interest in the
production and marketing programs
of the Georgia farmer and the frank
reaction and direct information go
ing to Mr.. Orr from the men he
writes cannot fail to give him a
broader and more correct view of the
difficulties of the problem presented,
to pass on to other large business
men.
In passing you will be interested to
know that Mr.. J. K. Orr was one of
the first among a number of Atlanta
business men two years ago to SUBJ
scribe $500 for the work of the
Georgia Association which as you
know is devoted nearly 100 per cent
toward the study and propagation OF
plans to remedy the very problems
discussed in Mr.. Floyd's letter and
think Mr.. Orr would be interested to
know that largely as a result of the
subscriptions made to the Georgia
Association by himself and others
there has been a reduction of this
great balance of trade against Geor-
gia industry of over $15,00O,0OO a
year accounted for largely in the in
crease of dairy and poultry produc-
ton brought about by the "cow-hog-
hen" propaganda through newspapers
and the Georgia Magazine and thru
the Inauguration of that program by
local bankers and farmers and mer-
chants.
1t is easier to analyze the economic
difficulty and indicate the remedy
than to make the remedy quickly ef-
fective. Indeed, there is no short
nor royal road to the remedy; we are
making rapid comparative progress as
shown so ably in DR.. Soule's address
at the Sixth Annual meeting OF the
Georgia Association and reproduced
in the July issue of GEORGIA. For
illustration when the "cow-hogrhen"
propaganda was started about live
years ago Georgia had one creamery
producing about 5000 pounds OF but
ter a year and one commercial hatch
cry with 5000 egg capacity. Today
our annual butter production from
twenty creameries is 100000
pounds and we have increased our
egg and poultry annually by $10,-
100000 and our incubator capacity
to nearly 100000 eggs. Likewise
we have increased our Watermelon
and peach and pecan output at rate
that makes it surprising that the diff
ficulties of finding new distribution
have not wholly enguIfed us.
Take the matter of low butter
price mentioned by Mr.. Floyd in his
letter. 1t is true there are many
farmers still selling their homemade
butter to local merchants not
equipped to work over or handle but
ter and whether the butter when de-
livered is good, bad or Indifference,
it must suffer the economic penalty
of an unorganized and unclassifled
product which is low price. The en-
couraging answer to Mr.. Floyd In
this particular commodity is that
there is not the slightest excuse for
any farmer in Georgia selling a
pound of butter-fat penny below