The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, October 12, 1921, Image 2
? Cooperation For Si
SSS^rw' '
The Problem.
Complaints, individual efforts, politics,
have neevr gotten results because
the problem "is a business problem:
namely, how to meet the law of
supply and demand so as to get thebest
nriees at the lowest cost of
handling; that is, how the farmer
may get a more reasonable share of
the consumer's dollar paid for farm
products., ^
1. Is it the farmer's place to sell
his product? If not, then he must
produce at a lower cost or he * must
reduce his scale of living. Economic
production may be improved somewhat
by better, more scientific methods;
"but further reduction in the
scale of living means less progress in
education, good homes, good roads,
social conditions, etc., which are now
much below what they should be. It
js aa-logical for the farmer to control
the sale of his product as it is for the
manufacturer or the miner to control
the sale of his product. v
2*i Is the farmer entitled to a bigger
share of the consumer's dollar?
; The farmer now gets, on an average,
* {
only a very small fraction of every
dollar paid by the consumer for farm
products. How can he get more?
Only by controlling the crop until it
reaches the consumer. That can be
done only by united or cooperative
effort. In Denmark, where cooperative
marketing is followed, the far- '
mer gets 49 cents of the consumer's
dollar.
> i
What Constitutes Marketing.
(1) Assembling the product, (2)
Grading; (3) Warehousing, (4) Trans- 1
portation, (5) Financing, (6) Skillful
celling. Practically all of the work in- 1
' luded under these heads is done by
^ somebody other than farmers, whom
wo call the "middleman." Of course,
this middleman gets al profits aris- ;
ing from doing these things. Selling
/ in driblets rather than large quantities
means lower prices. The farmer's
ignorance of grading, which is now
done by^uyers and speculators, results
in more loss. Lack of proper
"warehousing and financing results in
loss in quantity and helps to cause
rush selling at a great sacrifice. To
sell skillfully requires knowledge of
the product, cost of production, supply,
demand, etc.* The individual farmer
does not have this knowledge and
can not command it.
Individual Selling Is Poor Business.
? Why? Because?
1. The farmer is naturally more a
producer than a trader or business
man.:
2. Acting alone, he can do very
little with the various steps that constitute
marketing. As an illustration
of how organized effort results in sue?
??* ^ -i-?
CUSHJ.UI liHctliUlilg, lilt; IKllSSipill lUIlg
staple growers have been able to borI
Montgomery
Gn
COLUMBl
1101 Gervais Street
7S0 Kim wood Ave.
1108 Hampton Street
THE STORE THAT SELLS FOR CASH
FLOUR, BACON, LARD AND
We carry Everything in the Groc
to Please. Try Us Before You ?
6. %
' /
frZX Jfeiart
; v m,.* -?>
J * ? J- *-*' + *
ANNOU
The Arr
Columbia's Smar
Fall Appar<
DRESSED
Suits, Coati
Dresses!
Ling<
and the new<
accessorie
"Store of Courte
1513 Man
? Columbia
t
I
^ U-.J-LUJH - -iiuiiiii'U ii iwi !i iijw n ' !
filing--An Outline ( i
' /
C
row through the War Finance Corporation
$5,000,000 to finance their crop .
for orderly marketing.
There is now pending in Congress a j
- -3-? ? 4. U. 4- 4 1%/v I
Dili provIUlIlK liicti tut; uv;>tiuuiviii j
shall lend funds through farmers' organizations.
The advantages of such
a law, if passed, can come only t
through organizations of farmers. .
3. As individual sellers, growers
compete with one another. j.
4. There are always some who j
need to sell or otherwise get relief.
Without organization, this "distress"
selling hurts the market and the in- ^
dividual. Cooperation take care oi
this.
The real question then is, Can far- a
mers get better service from middlemen
serving their own selfish inter- s
ests or from farmers' organizations a
serving the interests of the farmer
members. '
General Principles.
There are three kinds of organizations:
(a) stock corporations, (b) 8
combination stock and patronage
companies, (c) non-stock cooperative t
associations. Stock corporations are
organized to draw dividends on money n
invested. Stock and patronage companies
provide limited dividends on
money invested and sharing of addi- ?
tional profits with patrons. The nonstock
cooperative association has no
money invested upon which to pay {n
\
Jividends and provides equal risks
and equal benefits for members. a
The six main principles of the eo- n
alterative associations are:
1. Organization on the basis ol g
the crop and product to be handled. i
2-. Member^iip limited to grow- ers
and landlords receiving the prod- >
uct as* rent. V
3. A ./binding contract to sell <<
through the association all of the /<
dLLU |
For the convenience of
Lexington county farmers \
I have opened a first class <
seed house in the' rear of
W. B. Redd's store, for- >
merly my old stand, where I
I will make a specialty of <
buying and selling good }
fresh field and garden
seed.
Particular attention
given to Rye, Oats and
Peas.
Now have good quantity
of Abruzzi Rye at $2.75
bushel. Also good supply
seed wheat and oats.
Come to me for your
needs in all kinds of seeds.
Prices right.
/
* t mm % milt m e*
A. J. MAlHlAd.
= >
ocery Company
[A, S; C.
Telephone 2418
Telephone 3556
Telephone 2069 _
; RETAIL AT WHOLESALE PRICES
\
SUGAR OUR SPECIALTIES
ery Line^ and Our Chief Aim is
toy and You Will be Convinced
r
gMord(?
. Apparel.
f. rrrfA f&JA5
MniMn
k ^ VAA 1 w
ival of
test Showing of
b1 for well
WOMEN
3, Blouses
I Furs
9rie
3st in dress
s at the
*
ous Attention"
n Street
t, S. C.
nvtoiv; pi-uhi' t-d by each member.
4. Thorough grading and market- j 1
ng in' "pools", each pool made up of a
ill the product of a given grade received
from members. j t
5. The employment of skilled sell-| c
ng agents to handle the association's' '
product. , j53
G. Non-stock, non-dividend pay-jt
ng organizations. jt
Tlic Crop Contract. t
1 . A mutual agreement to market !
hrough one channel, the association's
narketing agency.
2. Each member to deliver all of I
lis product to the association for sell- e
ng.
O jv. nig, ~
>eriod of time, and legal punishment f;
or breaking contract.
Pooling?How Done and Why n
1. The product of each member c
issembled and graded, grades sepa- iJ
ated from each other, and offered for n
ale in large quantities or "pools" of h
, given grade. . s
2. Advantages of pooling:
(a) Accurate grading. 8
(b) Selling in large lots. 1<
(c) Average price secured by skilled
ellers. t
(d) Orderly marketing rather a
han/hurried dumping.
(e) No competition from fellow b
nembers. c
Can It Be Done? P
1. Denmark, England, and other
European countries have done it. li
2. California farmers are prosper- . e
ig under co-operative marketing as
ever before. y
3. The grain groweis of tlie West o
re doing a $100,000,000 cooperative o
marketing business. t<
4. Oklahoma has completed oranization
for 400,000 bales of cotton,
'exas for over 500,000 bales, Mississil
V r?n PVirvf-rt
'X< navt i wui x iiutu
L YLES S
$ Winner of First Prize at the
for Seven
Phone
w 1511 Main Street
JOB
PRINTS
Prompt S
Expert Worl
/
The Dispa
I ovln nrfnn
The Aver
Does not realize all that a Ba
It is a friend?and then som
A Real
Is a financial institution that
of the community it serves,
for the solving of all the fina:
tele.
Saving the Fi
No matter how splendid you
may be, if you have not SA'
will not bring you the rewar
ried out, the man who has s
behind your idea, is the one ^
Let Us Help
TLa II?a \L
me nume n<
Lexington
Capital, $50,000.00
Member of Federal R
1't" r-sJ.-t.-}' , M.'.i
)ales, and North Carolina, Georgia
tnd other states are now organizing.
r>. ltight here in South Carolina
he South Carolina Sweet Potato Association
is succeeding on a cooperative
>asis. This association has recently
iccured reduction of freight rates for
he future, and the ruling is retroacive,
so that some $2,000 will be reurned
to the shippers from freight
>aid on the last crop.
Summary.
1. The farmer needs and is cnitled
to a larger share of the consumr's
dollar..
2. Cooperative marketing is a
iusiness organization of farmers, by
armers, for ^farmers.
3. The purpose of cooperative
larketing is to substitute the merhandizing
of products for the dumprig
of products by (a) stabilizing the
market, (b) lowering the cost of
i
andling and distribution, (c) selling
killfully to best advantage.
4. It is non-stock, non-profit or-!
anization, based on commodity, i?J
egal and permanent,
5. The contract is a binding, mutual
agreement to sell through the
ssociation's expert selling force.
G. Pooling the product results" in
etter grading, better financing, less
ompetition, and therefore better
rices.
7. It can be done in South Caroina,
for it is being done successfully j
lsewhere. !
8. Somebody else can't do it for
ou. If you are interested in your
\vn business salvation you want cope
rat ire marketing,^he only way isj
o go out and get what you want.
A. B. BRYAN,
Agricultural Editor,
Clemson College, S. C.
i it rr i i
grapns iviaae at |
TUDIO
South Carolina State Fair
Years ssSS
5227 M
Columbia, S. C. <<>>
THE
KIND
iT/** THAT
f vj PLEASES
iervice
kmanship
tch-News
South Carolina
age Man
nk means to a community.
Bank
functions for the welfare
It has machinery at hand
ncial problems of its clien
rst Essential
r idea or how practical it
VED something your idea i
d it deserves. If it be caraved
and whose money is
who will profit most.
You Save
I
itional Bank
I, s. c.
Deposits, $600,000.00
Reserve Association
MMm?iJ*pp 1 ^ ?o? WxyMBPMW^^j*1? -s ?u *^-.'>H V '
SNAPPY NEW FAL
For the man who likes in
in quality and bio
Special values i
$3.50, $4.00 "d
POWELL & FRE
1724 Main Street
ill i
I-!
| Refrigerators?
H
Mf
I McCray Refrigerators for every p
?*f
pj stock, ready for shipment. Call an
jj 1004 Gervais Street, Columbia, or 1
ftj pense, No. 449 for representative.
|||
5Sf
Sh|
1 Southern Scale <!
fiS / '
| Compan
1 E. W. CROUCH, Pres
J-?
Mf
Mf
nt a Arrrnc in
r Li/\li 1 Hlw n/\
COMPAI
1403?1407 AssembI
COLUMBIA, S.
We Want Your
We have opened a hardware stc
bly Street and when you are in th
to make this store your headquarb
at home here and feel free to com
even if you do not wish to buy.
We are offering at attractive p
munition, Farm and Garden Took
lery, Automobile Supplies, Axes
Fencing, Bagging and Ties, Field
Will appreciate any orders rec<
PLANTERS HA
wJivirAi
Columbia, S. <
C. D. KENN
Colombia, S. (
Special dealers in Coffees
Coffees Roasted daily
Rice Sob
C. D. KENN1
"WHO'S YOUR D1
O*' VM/\y4 w* /\iU ^ TTf rv MA t
xjy muuciii jxicLiiuua wc ic- a
move teeth and live nerves or I
fill the most sensitive tooth V
with very little pain or bad '
after effects.
Special attention to out-o:
Baltimore Denti
1329 1-2 Main St. COLUMBIA,
Look for Large Electric Sign a
Exhibit at Staii
Hours 8 to 8. Sundaj
mm?mmmm?m?mmmmmmmm
L HATS II
dividuality 1W
$5.00 |
FMAN i
Phone 5619 I ?
%
' I 1
1 |
V~
MM . ?
iurpose carried in 0
n
d see our Display at 11
:elephone at our ex- jg ^
h%
?!?
MM
. n? %
I
& Fixture | |
lident.
|
t
RDWARE
MY ;|
y Street
c. -ii
\ T|
Business
' ; ' I
re at 1403-07 Assem*
|l
e. city you are invited
ers. Consider fourself
e in and look around
A
*
rices: Guns and Am- 4
5, Stoves, Pamts, Cut- ??^
and Hatchets, Wire
1
and Garden Seeds. *
sived from you.
: I
RDWARE
c.
Y CO.
1
Teas and Sugars
1 at Cut Prices.
rco.
*
ENTIST?" I
h r * yjrjmj^m
'jju^^mjm
f-city patients
11 Parlors
S. C. Phone 586
ind Moving Dental I
rs. I
rs 10 to 3. I