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Meeting at Johnston in ! est of Co-Operative M keting, Addresses hy Mr. Long and Dr. Poe. The members of the Chaml Commerce of Johnston desen highest commendation for the < they are putting forth to im business and agricultural cond In pursuance of their invitati Mr. W. W. Long, director of i sion work of Clemson college Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of th? gressive Farmer, a large numb farmers, merchants, bankers other business men assembled i Crouch hall Tuesday of last we hear these distinguished gentl speak. The meeting was called x der by Mr. G. H. Ballentine, s tary of the Chamber of Comm who in stating the object oi meeting said, among other th "We have come together to di the question of how we can put f ing back on a paying basis." Mr. W. W. Long. Mr. Ballentine introduced . Long as the first speaker. He co-operative marketing is no new in many parts of the country,, b is new in the South, where we suffered from individualism, progress of the co-operative mai ing movement has been more or tedious and slow here. Therefore, little headway thus far has 1 made. Farmers are not intereste much in production at this time that question has been largely sol 'But they are becoming more more interested in how they can more of the consumer's dollar. U this time the farmer has been get only 37 cents of the consumer's lar when the cost was 63 cents. Denmark the farmer receives 75 c< of the consumer's dollar, and was brought about through co-opi tive marketing. Mr. Long said realizes that the people are gre? depressed and demoralized, but looking to the future we must ju the future by the past. He refer at some length to conditions wh obtained in the early eighties i nineties, At that time the aver? yield of corn in South Carolina .( only ll bushels to the acre, while n the average yield is 19 bushels. 1 average yield of cotton then \ 160 pounds of lint to the acre, wi now it is 247 pounds, and other yie of parm products are proportions -ly as large. In the^early nineties c ton sold for five and six cents, wh today it is selling for 16 and 17 cen Thirty five years ago there were or ld banks itt South Carolina and fi mers became easy prey of supi "merchants and commission men, pi ^i'ng enormous time prices. Now the are over 400 banks in South Cai ilna that are lending money at 8 p ?cent. Here Mr. Long commended t banks for their efforts to aid farme .and that while the banks, like eve individual and all other inter?s' -have suffered tremendously, yet th ?have successfully weathered t' F-storm. Mr. Long said that as he trave over South Carolina he is asked fro the mountains to the seaboard whet er we can grow cotton under bc weevil conditions- and his invariab reply has been that through intell gence our people are going to gro cotton in spite of the weevils. He sai it will clearly be a case of the surv val of the fittest. ? The day of th shiftless farmer is past, and we ai coming out of this very trying e: perience a stronger and better pet pie because we will be forced to mak sacrifices. He stated that down in Texas abou 25 years ago when cotton growers o Texas were wrestling/- with the bo' weevil for the first time and wer . about as greatly depressed and de moralized as our people are now h knew Mr. Wilson, the former secre tary of agriculture who was a sturd; Scotchman. One day a farmer me Mr. Wilson on the street and aske< him what was to be the salvation o: farmers in their fight against thi weevils, and the Scotchman replied laconically, "Economize and wori like H-ll." Mr. Long said that ii what dur people will have to do ir this exigency. In conclusion, Mr. Long said he is no prude but that all of this joy-rid ing and such excessive indulgences must stop, for several years at least, and instead of swinging to such ex tremes of extravagance our people must practice the' most rigid econo my. As he concluded his excellent speech, Mr. Long introduced Dr. Clarence Poe, whom he referred to as one of the great men of the country. Dr. Clarence Poe. Dr. Poe said he was glad to come . to this section of South Car olina because the Progressive Far mer, which agricultural journal he has been editing for 23 years, has so many friends her.e He said he was glad too, to come to Edgeneld coun ty because it was'the home of the la mented Senator B. R. Tillman, one of the South's greatest agricultural spokesman. Dr. Poa said he knows what farmers are facing now because in the early nineties he was living on a 100-acre cotton farm in Chat ham county, North Carolina, where he was struggling to help. his father pay off a mortgage, and that from this farm he went to Raleigh to edit the Progressive Farmer. A great many things have been proposed to help farmers but nothing else has been so effective as co-operative marketing. It is a proposal to mer chandise cotton, instead of dumping it on the market. This plan when per fected will enable a farmer, after working all the year, to demand a -profitable price for his cotton, in stead of approaching a buyer with hat in hand and asking him "How much will you give me for my cotton?" Rather then the buyer will approach the farmer and ask "How much will you take for your cotton?" Dr. Poe said the two great crops of North and South Carolina are to bacco and cotton and that the two great manufacturing interests of the states are tobacco and cotton, yet there is a world of difference be tween the way in which the raw ma terial and manufactured produces are marketed. The farmer is receiving only 15 per cent, more than pre-war prices for his crops while organized labor is receiving 99 per cent, more than pre-war wages. The difference is found in the fact that through or ganization labor is marketed co-op eratively and farm produce is not marketed co-operatively. Instead of cursing out all creation, let us real ize bottom facts and set about to ap ply the remedy, using some horse sense. In this connection, Dr. Poe gave Dr. S. E. Mitchell's (a former president of the South Carolina Uni versity) definition of horse sense "It is a kind of sense that jackasses haven't got." Dr. Poe said: "In North Carolina we did not get jolted out of the old way of doing .things until our wives and God Almighty made us and I be lieve that before 10 years pass we will thank God that He forced us out in 1922." The speaker then gave as an apt illustration the old colored preacher's interpretation of the scripture where the statement is made concerning the prodigal son that "he came to himself." He said that cot ton growers haye at last come to themselves and all are falling in line with the\ co-operative marketing movement from Texas to North Caro lina. It is neither a theory, nor is it something new and untried. Co-oper ative marketing has been a success in parts of Europe for .two generations. He here referred to what he saw and learned while on a visit to Denmark several years ago. In that small coun try the average farm is not larger than 15 acres and in Denmark far mers, "rule the roost." The average farmer in Denmark belongs to five co-operative marketing associations, such as live-stock, creamery, truck, etc. Being situated 2,500 miles from ?the markets of the east, California had to do something to realize profit able returns from their fruit and veg etables, being driven to co-operative marketing. Dr. Poe said his father was a member of the old Farmers' Alliance which attempted co-opar ative marketing on a small scale but it was a failure because farmers would not stick. In California the farmers stick to their organization because they have to. They have a workable system of co-operative mar keting and the cotton co-operative as sociation is fashioned after the Cali fornia plan. Dr. Poe said a Califor nian recently told him that 90 per j cent of the farmers in that state made money last year and it was due to co-operative marketing, while 49 out of 50 South Carolina farmers lost money and the other one did too. He gave the figures from the Unit ed State census showing the wealth iest 'counties from the standpoint of value of agricultural products. Of the 50 wealthiest counties taken from all the 3,800 counties in the country, 13 are located in California. In Cali fornia they are merchandising their crops, instead of dumping them on the market. In Kentucky more than 85 per cent of the tobacco growers belong to their co-operative market ing association. The co-operative marketing asso ciation is not a holding organization but a selling organization, with the selling extending over the entire 12 months. Dr. Poe statad that before the war it was the practice of foreign spinners to. purchase 80 per cent of the cotton they needed the first six months of the year ? and purchase the remaining 20 per cent the latter six months, but that since the war they purchase only 50 per cent, the first six months and 50 per cent the last six months. Then if we insist on selling the inevitable result will be :hair getting our cotton at their own, price. Organization will extend mar keting over the entire twelve months. Dr. Poe emphasized the fact that the co-operative hiarketing associa tion is not a stock organization hut on the other hand is owned and con trolled by the members who must either be bona fide farmers or land owners who receive their rents in cot ton. He said, furthermore, that it is a permanent and legal organization, and not loosely thrown together. All members sign an agreement to sell all cotton they grow through the or ganization. The best business men in the country refer to the co-operative marketing associations as the most businesslike organizations in exis tence. The membership fee is $5 which is equivalent to $1 per year for five years. This money is used solely in perfecting the organization. What ever is left will be returned to the farmers. There are but few salaried men in connection with the move ment. Dr. Poe is giving his time and talents to the cause absolutely free. The splendid addresses*of both Mr. Long and Dr. Poe were well received. The large and very representative audience sat fSr more than two hours with unabated attention and interest. Surely farmers who heard these in structive addresses will need no fur ther urging to ally themselves with the co-operative marketing move ment. J. L. M. Overproduction Means a Low Price. There was a time in the history of Texas when an increased cotton acreage with prospects for a large yield was hailed with delight by the business world. Today bankers and merchants are devoting their time and money to assisting a campaign for an increased acreage of food and*| feed crops and a decrease in cotton acreage. They have learned from ex perience that they can not prosper unless the farmer prospers, and being in closer touch witih the economic conditions of the world than most farmers thay have a keener appre ciation of the disaster an overpro duction' of cotton will bring to the South. It is reported that the spinners have already purchased supplies 'to last for a period of seven months. The American Cotton Exchange, through its State organizations, has over 400,000 bales in storage. Stocks at U. S. ports amount to 1,138,328 bales, with 679,423 bales at interior points. Considerable cotton is in far mers' hands and not accounted for in the regular stock statement. All to gether, including American cotton on hand in Europe, there is more than enough cotton to last until the; new season, leaving a fair margin to op erate on while another crop is made ready for the market. Increasing taxattion reduces the buying power of the American pub lic. The sam? is true of Europeans. It is not even to be presumed tlhat the consumption of cotton will be back to normal for many years. Therefore, there will not be need for a cotton crop even approaching normal. It will be far better to let land lie idle than to plant the normal acreage, thus driving down prices below cost of production. Produce a living at home and a few acres of good cotton to sell. Wait until the world demands a big crop before producing one. Farm and Ranch. Many Uses for Alfalfa, Says New Farmers' Bulletin. "A nearly perfect forage"-that is thc height of praise heaped upon al falfa by R. A. Oakley and H. L. West over of the United States Department of Agriculture in a new farmers' bul letin, Utilization of Alfalfa, just is sued. And when the good qualities of this crop are enumerated it is evident that some such description is warrant ed. 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Those who are interested should write to the United States Depart ment cf Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for Farmers' Bulletin 1229,' which will be sent fre*e of charge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS of Application For Discharge In the District Court of the United States, For the Western Dis trict of South Carolina. IN THE MATTER OF Rubenstein & Wynn, a partnership, and of the individual partners Isa dore Rubenstein and Jake Wynn. , (No. B-299 in Bankruptcy.) To the Creditors of the above named Bankrupt: [ Take notice that on February ll, ,1922, the above named bankrupt filed 'his petition in said Court praying that he may be decreed by the Court to have full discharge from all debts provable against his estate, except such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge, and a hearing was thereupon ordered and will be had upon said petition on March 15, 1922 before said Court, at Green ville, in said District, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said .petition should not be granted. j D. C. DURHAM, Clerk. Dated at Greenville, S. C., February 14, 1922. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD By WV T. Kinnaird Esquire, Probate Judge Whereas C E. Holsonback of the above County and State made suit to me to grant hir. Letters of Adminis tration cf 'the Estate of and effects of Virginia Holsonback ,late of said County and State, deceased. . These are Therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Virginia Holsonback deceased, thac they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at my office at Edgefield, S. C., on the 4th day of March, 1922 after publication there of, at ll o'clock in the forenoon,1 to . show cause, if any' they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 13th day of February, Anno Domini, 1922. W. T. KINNAIRD, (L. S.) Probate Judge E. Co., S. C. WANTED: Good, sound com for milling purposes, sixty-five cent? paid for same in shuck or seventy-five cents shelled. J. G. ALFORD. WANTED: Representatives to sell monuments. Attractive proposition. Write Charlotte Marble & Granite Works, Charlotte, N. C. Largest in the Carolinas.