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1; fOOPERATIV Hpi The Principles of Cooperative m ' ^emson C^T April 30.?The [p United States Bureau of ^Markets re|P~ ports that there are about fourteen Bg -thousand farmers' buying- and selling Kp organizations scattered throughout Bp the United States ,(Farmers' Bulletin Bps?*.1-144).; From this it is evident that j American farmers are awake to the j ipi?. necessity of their taking a hand in lifc- the business of distributing their products. Some of these buying and ijif* filing organizations are cooperative, ( c that is, they are organized without! gs capital stock and pay no stock dividends, all proceeds less costs being prorated among the members according to the amount of business done through the organization. Oth efts are stock company organizations, J ' and the farmers who own stock re- j ceive market prices for their products, plus stock dividends provided the organization makes a profit. This kind of farmers* organization is very & * ' similar to an ordinary corporation . . ^ and is of little value from the growers' standpoint for the reason that its prime object is to pay its stockholders dividends on capital stock. Like other corporations, it tries to buy as cheaply as possible and sell as high as possible. ^ Combination Stock and Patronage ; Companies. Some of these organizations combine in various ways features of both * the stock company dividend-paying organization and the non-stock, purely cooperative associations. For * example, some of them limit the dividends payable on stock to 6 or 7 per cent and provide that any profits realized above such per cents shall be paid out to the farmers who buy or sell through the organization. The amounts thus paid out to patrons are called patronage dividends. The pay1 ment of patronage dividends is based on the premise that patrons are fts : necessary to the succes of an organization as is capital stock and therefore entitled tq receive a share of the profits realized in the marketing operation. Pure Cooperative Marketing i* ' (Pure cooperative marketing, on the b other hand, means the taking over \ of the marketing process or of cerI taip parts of it by. growers on a basis fit. equal risk and equal profits. No t capital stock is necessary under this plan and all receipts from the sale j2Cj>roducts, less costs of selling, are returned to growers in payment for the product? marketed. Thus we see that the thousands .of' farmers' buying and selling organizations throughout the country make use of the principles of cooperation in every possible degree of variation from the pure cooperative plan to ^ the ordinary stock corporation plan. Six Principles Briefly Explained The six main principles underlying i IfiFv O- I the successful marketing of farm j products on the purely cooperative plan may be stated as follows: (1) The basis of such association shall be a single crop cr commodity I and not a combination of crops which are marketed in unlike manner. Neither is the association organized Sv v merely by counties or other political division but rafher over the entire territory where the particular compu* modify is produced. | i (2) Membership is limited to growers and to landlords who receive a f, part of the crop as rental. (3) Each member enters a bind' i ng contract with the association agreeing to turn over to the associa* tion for its resale value all of the :' commodity which comes into his possession as a grower. The association * markets that commodity for nobody y.. except members. (4) The commodity is all graded i t Ev-' - ** ** _ : fry * ! Kraiwi^ (GRANULES) indigestion Taste goody do good; dissolve instantly on tongue or in water; take as needed. quick RELIEF! . ALSO IN TABLET FORM FOR THOSE * WHO PREFER THEM. MADE BY SCOTT * BOWNE MAKERS OF nSCOTrSJMULSION i.? POTATO PLANTS Nancy Hall and Porto Rico potato plants now ready for shipment ?1.75 per thousand. E. L. SPHALER & CO., Pine Castle, Fla. 4t-p-28. * ' ' E MARKETING j and each grade is marketed ac a J "pool." The members all receive the I same price per unit for the same : grade of product. ! (5) Competent market men who j have had practical successful exj perience in marketing the particular I commodity are employed by the asj sociation to handle the marketing 1 work of the association. Such marketing work is not a job of a ma teurs. (6) Such an association is set up and operated on the basis of the crop contracts and without capital stock. . It is. therefore a non-stock and nondividend paying association. The next article of this series will explain in more detail the crop contract. THE POTATO BUG Clemson College, April 30.?The beetle or striped bug will soon begin to lay its first eggs on the under side of the potato leaves. Within a few days after this, the small red softbodied larvae grubs will begin their work of devouring the leaves. While this pest sometimes destroys potato fields by the wholesale there is little excuse for such destruction, because it is one of the easiest insect ,pests to control. Control measures on small areas. When the insects begin to appear, arsenate of lead powder or calcium arsenate may be sifted over the plants with a small flour sack while they are moist with dew. The bottom of the sack must not touch the wet plants, I | as this will clog the small openings in | the sack ana prevent tne uusi poison j from coming through. A hand dust I gun can be used advantageously for this purpose. ' On fields or large areas. Where a spray machine is available, the arsenate of lead or calcium arsenate may be mixed with the Bordeaux solution at the rate of one pound of the poison to fifty gallons. Dust guns cannot be used to advantage on large areas. Paris green can be used as a dust by mixing at the rate of one part of Paris green to twenty parts of airslaked lime or other fine dry material: or as a liquid spray by mixing one pound of Paris green to about 1 r?0 gallons of water. Arsenate of lead or calcium arsenate is recommended in preference to Paris green. , For a Bad Cough. When you can not sleep for coyghing, take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It will allay the irritation of the throat and make sleep, possible. It contains no op'ate. ! More P I Han IEntii Now In view oj steel, we nov line of farm ] by reductions All low The reduc the material I will sell this1 ? fore have no such machin pany to buy manufactur nounced po Company tai ished and m { 1 Full infori I * 1 binders, mou corn machin | and all other from any Int INTERNATK Chicagc 92?ra COCA-COLA KING DISCUSSES COTTON ;i I ! WISHES HIS BUILDINGS WEUK | VACANT SO HE COULD STORE I , | COTTON IN THEM. ! . I Sometimes a man awakens to unci | i he owns more of a venture than he j intended to. and that's how I became j the owner of Coeo-Cola," declared j /Asa (i. Cnandler, Sr., founder of the j j tremendous enterprise, in one of the } most intimate and interesting inter1 views to which he has ever submitted. I I "There were two young fellows always mixing up things in our town," continued Mr. Candler, talking to a reporter for the Kansas City Times, i upon the occasion of a recent visit to i | that city. "I was a small-town, drug; gist and my store was a clubhouse ! for a lot of the town boys. I trusted : them all. Had to, in fact. Those boys i had a soda fountain mixture, and ? 4 i \vhoii I began to foot up my ledger I j found I had more invested in the; scheme than the boys, I took it over.; "It didn't 'take' particularly well, it was more work to get it started and more work to keep it going. I never left it a minute until seven years ago; then 1 turned it over to the boys." j Mr. Candler informed his Kansas City interviewer that he wouldn't f have sold Coco-Cola, but he added ( that his boys drove a "pretty keen ! bargain" from a sale standpoint. "I have four fme boys," he said. "But they are just boys. When I gave j them the business it was theirs. They i sold out a big share for a fancy price.; I wouldn't have done that, but they | did ,and from a sale standpoint they! drove a pretty keen bargain.' Mr. Candler, who has erected and who owns big and little buildings all ! over the country, has one regret in I connection with his extensive build| ing operations. He regrets that all of j the buildings are so well tenanted, or, ! as he states it, that thr-y are not va'.cant so that be might store cotton in j them. 1 Mr. Candler, who is now making a j tour of the west, studying business j conditions and renewing aequaintanc! es with many old friends, has been the ! subject of many interesting and ilium- ! | inating newspaper stories. He has ; ; submitted to many interviews en I route to the Pacific coast, and in ! these he has made it perfectly clear. > i j that cotton and not Coco-Cola is his i i chief interest and concern. "Every time Asa G. Candler 'retires he assumes more' work," reads The story in the Kansas City Times. "He says it is the only safe way for 1 | a man in this busy age to quit busi'rice Reduc /ester Com re Line of Implei - at Lower Pr f the recent reduction i i announce lower prices machines and implement > previously announced. rer prices take effect ticn in the price of steel lor the machines and it i T :J . fear nas oeen proviueu, c bearing on the manufac es. However, it does en; materials at lower pri< e, and in accordance licy we now quote the dng the loss on machim aterials on hand. nation regarding our lo rers, and all other harvest es, tillage implements, trc IHC farm machines c; ernaticnal Dealer. DNAL HARVESTE ^ of America [incorporated] neb Houses and 15,000 ^Dealers in the Un I I ne:s. Quitting business for: h:m meant i taking hold of things in these panicky ) conditions and whipping them into | running shape. ! "Jn ISStJ it was Asa. <I. Candler. ! druggist in a Georgia town, who began marketing Coco-Cola. Pv pesterin?-'. as lie describes it, in a few fellow druggists, he was able to peddle "2S:j gallons of the drink that now has an annual consumption of some 15,000,000 gallons. But. as .Mr. Candler told it to Kansas City friends, Coco-Cola troubles have been shifted to his four boys and a 'boy-in-iaw.' Cottons is h;:: adopted interest. "That same interest, it is said, is responsible for the tour-to-Californiarecreation that Mr. Candler is mak i ng. Reverting to the sale of coc.o-eola, Mr. Candler was asked if he had retired from business seven years ago when he gave the enterprise to his sons. "Lord, no. What chance had a man to retire in 1914 with the south and the nation in such a crisis? Georgia was the gloomiest state of all when exports were cut off suddenly. Cotton went down to almost nothing. The -recent slum]) is not even a circumstance. I had gotten into a bank, so I marshalled up what money T could and began to buy and lend ?>n cotton. "When a man* hacks his judgment with his money, other men will follow. The south borrowed $30,000.000 on cotton at low rates." The story remarks about Mr. Candler's mammoth warehouse in Atlanta, which is now under lease to the federal government, and which Mr. Candler is very anixous to have returned to him, so that ho may store cotton in the present crisis. Concerning present conditions. Mr. Candler is quoted as follows: ''Things will come out all right if everybody keeps working. You never | saw a busy man starve. The Central i -Bank and Trust corporation of Atlan- j I.))),-).* '. 1 ? .1 1 Lit ilUD I'UILVJI ILULiir*, 1?M1 I IM illlll | \von't go broke." j The - Kansas City story, after re- j marking upon the buildings Mr. Can-1 dler has erected in Chicago. Atlanta. I New York. Baltimore, Dallas. Winne- J peg, Kansas City. Toronto and other! 'cities, concludes with an illuminating question and answer: Do you regret your extensive building operations?" Mr. Candler was asked. , "Xo. but T wish I had "em all vacant now for cotton." ? c m Xot Likely to Bo a Star "My wife is practicing cconom now." * "That so?" "Yes, but 1 don't believe she's evct going to become expert at it." tionsby I Lpanv nents j ICES n the price of | for our entire 1 :s not covered f at once I comes after all | nplements we 1 md will there- f! turing costs of I ] able the Com- 1 :es for future 11 with our Sn- 11 >se prices, the | es already fin- I i wer prices on I ing. haying and | ictors, engines, !l # in be obtained | R COMPANY | USA | He J States } SECOND SPRAY FOR PEACHES AND PLUMS Cemson College, April 30.?Owners of orchards should not fail to apply the second summer spray for peaches j and plums if good fruit is desired, | says Prof. C. C. Newman, chief of j the horticultural division. This ' spray which is to combat worms, rots and scab, is a combined spray of selfboiled lime-sulphur and arsenate of load and should be applied two weeks j after the first spray applied just after j the petals fell. .Make the lime-sulphur as directed below. Then dilute the arsenate of lead with water to make a thin paste and add the lime-sulphur solution when cool and put in a barrel. The lime, recommended when the arsen ate of lead is used, is omitted because of the lime used in the lime-sulphur wash. Sclf-Hoiled Lime-Sulpliur Solution Formula Quick lime (lump) S lbs. Flour of sulphur S lbs. Water 50 pals. Preparation. Place the 8 pounds of lresh lime in a tub or barrel and add just enough water to slake it. An excess of water seems to brown the lime and retards the slaking process. As soon as the lime begins to crumble apart and a violent boiling sets up add 8 pounds of sulphur and stir it thoroughly, adding enough water to keep any part of the mixture from becoming dry. Enough water "should be added, in fact, so that the paste is thin enough to be easily stirred. A.fter the boiling has continued for five or ten ' minutes, enough water should be i added to cool the mixture. [ It is best to dilute the mixture to I proper strength and apply as soon as made. In applying, a pump with a good agitator should be used so as to keep part of the mixture from setj ting out. Lime-sulphur solution I should be applied with a force of 100 I pounds or more pressure to. the I square inch. ! Stomach Troubles. "1 have never found anything so i good for stomach troubles and con' stipation as Chamberlain's Tablets. I have used them off and on for the past two years. They not only regulate the bowels but invigorate the - liver and keep one's body in a healthy ondition." writes Mrs. Benjamin ' Hoffor, Auburn. X. 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