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655* s. 1 . x OUR SYSTEM OF WAREHOUSES. WHAT IT SHOULD BE No. I.?Type of Warehouse Organisations. * (Editor's Note: This is the first ot a series of articles by J. M. Workman, Warehouse Engineer, who is making headquarters at Raleigh, serving the Stat^ Department of Agriculture in the development of cotton warehouses. Mr. Workman has drawn plans tor the Dillon County Warehouse and Market Corporation.) The time has come when tne farmers of Soutn Carolina are in a position to become independent in the growing and marketing of then crops. The recent years of prosperity have seen sufficient accumulation 01 capital in the hands of the farmer to enable him to place his production and marketing on a sound business basis. Upon his doing so depends in a large measure his horn upuu tuiure prosperity. The first requisite for business organization among tanners * is their products. The erection of storage warehouses under local and efficient management is the key to the marketing problem of the farmer. . In providing storage facilities the local physical protection of the product to De stored, but nluBt also see that the organization is of such strength and development along business iines that the patron of the company will be assured every reasonable facility for financing his products in storage. Upon this depends the ability of the farmer to sell when market conditions and his own situation render disposal of his crop most advantageous to him. The activity of the warehouse company must not cease with the provision of physical protection of the products and financial protection ol their owner, but should be so constituted that the warehouse may serve as a phtcp of business Xct its patrons, enabling'them both individually and . collectively to negotiate the most advantageous sales. It is not advisable, however, that the warehouse company engage in the actual purchase and sale of commodities stored. 'Advantageous marketing may be complished simply by the assembly to buyers. In this service the warehouse management may act as sales agent for its patrons, making salee continuously for on special days wfcec a number of buyers are invited to be present. Perhaps still more advantageous sales madt through the formation of local cooperative marketing associations incorporated under tin laws of the State, or, intermediate between these methods several individuals may club togther and jointly arrange for sales of their products Where such systems are followed ii is not unusual for farmers to secure prices materially above market quotations, and often to effect sales where otherwise they could not in dlvldually secure a market. An important point for consideration in selecting a building desigt or type of construction is the factoi of depreciation yet this is a consid ' erapion which is all too often overf? / looked. It should be remembered thai deterioration sets in tne moment ? building is erected. The effect of time may be so slow as to be entirely overlooked, but it must be remembered that every building is affcted by time and usage. This depreciation may be aa high as 10 of the investment cost, while with a building constructed oi reinforced concrete the depreciation coat may be easily as low as 2 pei cent. These sums should be considered as a part of the operating cosi just as much as the item of labor oi repairs. wmle the natural inclination oi the layman in considering warehouse plans is to think of tbe kind of bun ing he will have, a moment's reflec tion will show that this is a mattei for secondary consideration, important though it is. He should first con \ aider the character of service th. warehouse company will render and the scope of its organisation. In some sections of the country small local warehouses have sprung up. which substantially are privates owned and privately operated. Suet warehouses meet the first requisite for cotton storage that they afford physical protection, but as a practica matter, individual ownership and op oration affects very adversely the xi aancial service which such warehouse may render. The necessarily smal scale of operation renders adequatt lire protection with low insurance rate impracticable. The operating ex peases of sue hwarehouses may, ol course, vary from a negligible to at ' extremely heavy charge, depending upon HOW cioseiy ma wtucuvuoc Hi lord* service ^nly to the individual v who owns it. Next comes the small town warehouse having a storage capacity o< perhaps two to five thousand balet of cotton, operated by a corporation, individual or partnership under suco condi tions that its receipts issued under the State or Federal supervision may be satisfactory tor secuiity purposes. However, this warehouse, in many instances, cannot afford such fire protection as will enable It tc get Insurance rates sufficiently lo\> to make the storage of cotton profitable to producers; but chief of all handicaps is that of necessarily high overhead expenses of operation with the resulting tendency toward Inferior services. Helther of these warehousing plans afford any reasonably degree of marketing service or facilities, nor can it he expected that they may be able to develop very far in this dlreotion, for reasons so obvious that I need not mention them. % iVditMotln, ohnrnlv with thpaf VVuv?*WVIMD ? r-# types of warehouses in the concentration warehouse, where there maj readily be secured the combined advantages of low insurances, low overhead expenses, a minimum of fluctua. - tion in storage and a maximum ol service in marketing. Notwithstanding these advantages the farmer has not been benefited by concentrator warehouses as he might for the reas on that they have been usually in nt, sense operated for his benetit. More over, their operation in many in stancs has been so necessary and pro fitable from a mercantile standpoint | that Insurance rates hare been to i . large extent overlooked, and poo {engineering renders many of thes plants uneconomical, both in respec ' j to insurance and labor costs in oper ation. Where such warehouses opera ; ted by, and in the interest of, the far ' mere, they would doubtless prove most perfect iqachine, combined wit] [ I the plans of the American Cotton As 'sociation for marketing corporations 1 j Notwithstanding all of these advan 1 tages which I have pointed out for th< ; concentration warehouse, it is in th j writer's judgment a practical impos "]sibility at the present time. 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Therefore, we are forced to - recognize the fact that if the farmer is to warehouse hiB cotton, warhous - es must be near at hand,, operated by a those whom he knows and has confiti dence in. The plan of warehouse organization i. which serves best the farmers of - South Carolina combines the advane tages of' all these plans mentioned. e This plan wiil be discussed in the next " of this series of articles. J. H. WORKMAN. its of S * i /ed right | the cooling depths of a luscious S and bubbling. Then there are the. ? perhaps from egg'and milk or a ? is the delight of old and young, g ?s a fancy combination with fruits ? ir the top. Every conceivable kind ? :ombination is served at our foun- @ )f high-class purity and delight and 1 nd appealing way. Make this your | ou visit most frequently?the place * fort and enjoyment. ; DRUG CO. 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