Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-16
Unit SYSTEM
OF MARKETING
AIM OF BODY
(By Staff Correspondent


ton expects to market will be pres
ent at the first meeting Of the
Valley Vegetable Cooperative Assn
board Of directors to be held at 2
ID. m, wednesday at the Madison
hotel in Harrington, II was announ-
ced at the first annual member
ship meeting Friday afternoon in
Fair Park Auditorium.
Name Of the representative was
not given in the letter OF promise
received here.
The national exchange has been
set up under the auspices OF the
Farm Board to handle the products
of various grower-owned coopera-
tives over the country.
Elections Ratified
Election Of directors by each OF
the eleven local units in the Val
ley was ratified at the meeting
here.
Directors by districts are: o. Nj.
Kenyon. Edlnburg; j.. II. Merrill,
San Carlos. G. M. McNaiiie, Pharr-
San Juan-Alamo; L. q. Andrews,
West Weslaco and Donna; r. K.
Whitaker, Last WeSlaco and Ed
couch: w. w. Withers, McA:len and
Mission: j. w. BurtleSS, La Feria,
Primera and Combes, H. K. Ballen-
ger, SAL Benlto, La Paloma and
Los InuIoS; b. A. Danley. Ranger
vile; Geo. B. Warren, Rio Hondo
and Los FreSnoS; g. L. Hunter, II
Jardin.
Weslaco has been announced as
headquarters for the coop because
OF its intense interest IN grove.
movements.
"A number Of speakers urged that
since the association had Coasted
in weeks ahead Of organization
schedule that the officers and
members should not rest on their
oars but endeavor TO sign as much
more acreage as possible between
now and shipping time.
Il feel that this is the birthday
of the association said j. l..
Montgomery oil lyman. president
of the Texas State Farm Bureau
Federation who spent considerable
time in the Valley during the past
two months assisting with organ
ization work.
He expressed the hope that dou-
be the present acreage OF l4.6OO
would be signed up by the time the
shipping season begins. He SAID
that with cotton farmers turning 10
truck crops and with depressed bus
mess conditions reducing the buy
ing power of the nation that 1t Is
much more necessary TO be organ
tied for marketing purposes.
He pointed out that other grow
ing sections OF Texas are organi-
zing along the Valley lines and ex-
pressed the hope that Texas Will
have a unified system OF market
ing. He explained that he did not
mean that all parts OF the state
should be in the same organization
but that they should be co-ordinat-
ed.
1900 Acres Signed
4. A. Miller, organization direc-
tor OF the cooperative, pointed out
that although Aug. 81 had been the
final date set Tor organization and
5000 acres as the goal necessary TO
ouCItoo NkA4N kGAAsaANAOAA Ao WA
plete now and that over l4,OOc
acres had been signed by Aug. 3.
I'm one month you signed up in
two counties 25 per cent Of the
usual truck acreage in four Valley
counties he pointed out but warm
ed that members should not stop
at this mark.
MI. Miller declared that although
the government has extended It's
aid principally through set-up OF
the national exchange that the CO.
Oh should not lean too heavily on
the government. 1t will take work
to put IL over even with fedora!
aid" he asserted.
There usually are about 6 1000
acres of truck crops planted in the
Valley or about $4,000 acres with
out onions. he pointed out. Al
though $4,000 acres signed up are
past expectations the organization
should aim now to sign UP SO per
cent Of the entire acreage or about
$4,000 acres, he said.
He asserted that one thing which
gratified the farm board was the
fact that the Valley went ahead,
organized, and said we're ready
without setting up a skeleton or
~ganization as some sections have
done and then seeking aid OF the
board in completing II.
All directors were called on by
George B. Warren, himself a d.
rector, who vas elected chairman
Of the meeting.
Said o. NJ. Kenyon: I'VE must
have a majority Of the farmers and
acreage before we have bargaining
power. We need only II more ,rAw-
ers to get 80 per cent in Edinourg
district
r. <. Whitaker: Let every mem
Der get another
c. L. Hunter: The attacks on the
Farm Board and the co-operatives
are inspired by those whose bust
ness they are hurting. ! saw where
all the cotton gamblers and others
were criticizing the Farm Board.
Then l saw that all of the farmer
organizations were supporting the
board. That settled ii in my mind"
Other directors also spoke as did
some Of the members.
Urgcs High Quality
c. c. Wentz of FL Jardin urged
that the coop see that every pack
age Of vegetables which goes out is
OF the highest quality. He said that
superior quality would win the bat
tie and warned that the o%rganiza-
ton should not lean on the feder-
al government which he said could
only advise. He said he had been
trying to organize the vegetable