The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, July 08, 1920, Image 8
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OUR SYSTEM OF WAREHOUSES.
WHAT IT SHOULD BE
No. I.?Type of Warehouse Organisations.
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(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. %
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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. The cot
| ton producer feels that he has suffer
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a ed such abuse at the hands of unr
scrupulous dealers that heJs reluce
tant to be far separated from this
t cotton. 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.
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