Cooperative Marketing of
S? Farm Products Successful
& For New Hanover Farmers
£, ■ Cooperative marketing has proven a
- ■ success In business transactions in
: SjTorth Carolina, as well as in other
5*"L states. It was established in this
vv state in 1920. Marketing on the co
? ioperative plan has been tried In all
|g kinds of business and is now being
fijy worked out on the farms.
y The Saturday market held in the
. city auditorium is proving .that co
' operative marketing is possible. Wil
iKi mington is drawing to its market
farmers who are willing to make grad
V ihg of farm products a success and se
, curing the cooperation of the towns
people.. Not only this county but
others, like Pender, Brunswick and
:C Sampson, have proven cooperative
. ‘ marketing pkn/afid will be made pos
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'I 'The trials and tribulations of the
period of inflation have put men to
thinking ’who are developing more
constructive work than ever before, so
' i It comes to us at last that the value
value of ■ our agricultural products
Stand out far ahead of anything else;
. that forty per cent of our population
lives on farms; that upon their pros
perity depends largely the welfare of
5 our city dwellers and we ask our
•elves the question, what have’we done
in the past to assist our farming com
- Jpunities?
?It is true that our United States
States government has established ex
perimental farms that the department
Of agriculture cooperates In many
, ways. We have fix Texas our State
. Extension Divisions which endeavors
■ to bring about the use of better seed
and better live-stock, deal in plant
‘ diseases and control measures and as
sist generally In an educational way,
Jpst as our railroads have agricultural
» 4gents and demonstration trains and
pipr chambers of commerce try to train
the younger generation on the farms
ji-s with boy and girl clubs, home eco
jv npmics clubs and other efforts.
■ ' All this is very helpful and of ma
terial assistance in helping the farm
, er to start off properly, but what aro
We doing to keep the boy on the farm,
to make an hour's farm labor worth
gs much as one hour’s city labor, and
to make the returns from, farming op
erations lucrative enough to start a
snovemen? back to the soil? Why is it
that the condition of our farmer to
• <^p.y is certainly fa!r from prosperous?
. We have enjoyed a comparatively
! fair crop and one would think tKat
With the old popular cry of one dollar
.'wheat and twenty-five cent cotton
realized our farmers should, be pros
perous, but it is not so. Statistics
snow tnat,- taking tne value or rant
products compared to manufactured
' products as one hundred per cent be
fore the war, this value declined dur
ing the war to slxty-two per cent and
today, notwithstanding the compara
tively higher prices of farm products,
* it is only sixty-seven per cent. There
fore, the farmer has to spend a bale
and-'a half- of cotton today to buy the
■same thing that he could buy for a
bale of cotton before the i war.
What Is necessary to make the biiy
.ing power of farm products one hun
dred'per cent of manufactured prod
ucts and thereby, give him an even
break? The manufacturers are
thoroughly organized. They watch
" production—they market systematical
ly and by establishing high standards,
create satisfactory consumption. The
farmer cad do likewise, for the answer
has been found and this answer is
“cooperative marketing.”
Have you ever traveled through the
states of California, Washington.
Oregon or the agricultural portion of
. Colorado? If you have, you will
agree with me than the change in the
farming communities of these states
..during the past few years is nothing
less than phenomenal. As we travel
along their splendid roads, through
guiles of fields and orchads well key.,
and diiltivated, as we see their splen
did homes and farms, as beautiful
churches and parks, we wonder what
has happened. We know they did not
always enjoy this prosperity .for, just
a few years ago, they were Just as
badly of and may be worse than we
were. • This wonderful change has
been brought about within a very
ijhort time by Cooperative Marketing
and nothing else.
This idea was first advocated by a
young attorney in California. Today
/ this young genius is general counsoi
for some flftay co-operative marketing
associations throughout the United
, States, all of them organized according
<*> proper business principles and cov
ering very many farm products. They
are organized just like merchants and
manufacturers are. They recognize
. the law of supply and demand and are
trying to^guard against surplus ruin
•lng markets. They improve the qual
ity and standard of their products and
«f their packages; they help to create
a demand1 for their output by national
advertising. They are not holding or
ganizations, but endeavor to guard
against dumping and to establish a
proper distributing system throughout
the year on a supply and demand basis.
1 Some efforts have been made in this
direction in other sections. We have
the Wheat Growers’ association in west
Texas and the Rice Growers' associa
tion in south Texas; and while the lat
ter has made good progress, it has
never been successful or otherwise rice
.yvould' not be soling today at ruinous
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' '• Just because you start the day wor
ried and Hred, stiff legs and arms and
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hearing down pains in the back—worn !
oh* before the day begins—do not think
yotr have to stay in that condition.
* Be strong, well, with no stiff joints
sore muscles, rheumatic .pains, aching
back or kidney trouble caused by body
matVe acids.
If you suffer from bladder weakness,
With burning, scalding pains, or if you
arevin and out of bed half a dozen
times a night,\you will appreciate the
rest, comfort and strength this treat
ment should give.
To prove The Williams Treatment
conquers kidney and bladder diseases,
rheumatism and all other ailments
when due to excessive uric acid, no
matter how chronic or stubborn, if
you have never tried The Williams
Treatment, we will give one 86c bottle
<32 doses) free if you will cut out this
notice and send it with your name and
address. Please send 10 cents to help 1
pay postage,, packing, etc.,, to The Dr.
D. A- Williams Company, Dept. AA- 1
4631, P. O. Building, East Hampton,
Conn. Send at once and vou will re
ceive by parcel post a regular 85c bot
tle, without charge and without incur
ring any obligation. Only one bottle
to the same address or family.—Adv.
prices. In the Rio Grande section, we
-Slave a Fruit Growers’ association,
which has done considerable good,
but which lack of transportation fa
cilities has hampered materially.
-We have a Peach Growers’ associa
tion and recently you have noticed that
our onion farmers In the southwest
have banded together in an effort to
market jointly. We all know what
tragedy onion growing has been, and
we hope this movement will be suc
cessful but, after all, our real money
crop is cotton and there the task is a
big one but, by no means, an impossi
ble one..
It is mainly lack of understanding
that has kept the business man and
the professional man from doing his
share in assisting co-operative mar- j
keting. In 1920, the first effort at co- j
operative marketing was made. Today i
associations are existing in Oklahoma, I
Texas, Mississippi, Arizona, Northai
Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. In
1920 150,000 farmers have been signed j
up with an approximate output of three i
million bales. Do not understand me!
to say that these associations/ will j
handle three million bales of cotton |
this year, for t do not think they will
reach this amount, but they have al
ready obtained sufficient standing to
make their influence felt^ in the cotton
market and to help to stabilize it. Their
method of standard grading and clas
sification and their ability to sell large
lots of equal running grades.has at
tracted the attention of large buy
ers and the Dallas office of the Ameri
can Cotton Growers’ exchange the
other day had one order for 50,000 bales
from Japan. Te War Finance Corpora
tion has assisted them with large ad
vances, the Texas Farm Bureau Cotton
association atone receiving a credit
of $9,000,000 for the purpose of hand
ling Texas cotton.
“The manufacturers are thoroughly
organized. They watch production.
They market systematically and by
establishing high standards, create sat
isfactory consumption. The farmer can
do likewise. The answer is co-opera
tive marketing.”
The time has passed when we want
to Insist on the farmer turning loose
his cotton as soon as he gets it so we
can collect. As much as I like to col
lect what we have on our books, I
would much rather inconvenience my
self some and let the farmer handle hli
cotton through this association, therebj
obtaining a reasonable advance again*'
his warehouse receipt, with which h<
can pay the larger part of what h<
owes and then wait and have his crop
together with the crop of other farm
ersfl marketed gradually throughout
the season, In this way stabilizing the
market. The more thoroughly mis If
worked out and the wider the support
that Is given to this movement, the
I less will be the hardship, on any one ol
us and the greater will be the results;
but It needs the combined effort of all,
bankers and merchants.
Thera Is no question or the economic
soundness of co-operative marketing,
The strongest bankers in the United
States have approved It. Leaders ol
finance like Bernard Baruch, Theb. 23.
Price, Otto H. Kahn, ant» countless
others are advocating it. It has the
approval of the secretary of agricul
ture and the President of the United
States, and If you hear any one talk
against it, you may rest assured he
either puts a personal, selfish Interest
ahead of community welfare or does
not know what he is talking about.
Let us get behind the farmer
throughout this' country and assist
him in establishing sound and safe
co-operative marketing associations
for his various products, and it will
not be very lon^ until we shall be able
to show that farming is not only a
healthful and ideal way of living, but
also equally as remunerative as occu
pations in the city, and with the many
inducements held out to the farme- to
day, good roads, automobiles, tel^.
phone, radio, artificial light and other
conveniences, farming will become as
attractive as it should be, provided it
can be made to pay and we shall es
tablish the real basis for their pros
perity as well as for our own.
FRECKLE-FACE
Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly
Sports; How to Remove Easily
Here's a chance, Miss Freckle-face,
to try a remedy for freckles with the
guarantee ol' a reliable concern that it
will not cost you a penny unless it
removes the freckles; while if it does
give you a clear complexion the ex
pense is trifling.
Simply get an ounce of Othine—
double strength—from any druggist
and a few applications should show
you how easy it is to rid yourself of
the homely freckles and get a beauti
ful complexion. Rarely Is more than
one ounce needed for the worst case.
Be sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength Othine as this
strength is sold under guarantee of
money back if it falls to remove
freckles.—Adv.
THREE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD
PURCHASE THE NEW GIANT
TIRE:
- First, because they carry more mileage.
Second, because all adjustments are made by the dealer
instead of having to be sent to the factory.
Last, but not least, because they- sell at 15 per cent less
than the other brands.
NEW GIANT CORDS GUARANTEED FOR
10,000 mile!s
Purchase now and prevent a lot of trouble-on the road these
> hot Sunday afternoons
30x31/2 Fabric.>....$ 9.90
30x3^ Standard Cord ...... 12.20
30x31/2 Oversize Cord.. 14.10
32x4 New Giant Cord...... 25.20
33x4 New Giant Cord....... 26.00
34x4 New Giant Cord..’ 26.80
All Other Prices Correspondingly Low
J. P. BRINSON
132 Market Street Telephone No. 801
Wilmington, North Carolina
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and Delivered Promptly
Ladies’and Children’s Work a Specialty
Expert Hand Sewing
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21 S. Second Street
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Just received pjbig shipment of Felt Sport Hats in all
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Efird’s Millinery Department
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Thafj the People May
I Know
of what ah||| how our living room suites are made,
we have 6|] display in our window, a Sherman
Brothers, lfigh-grade, overstuffed settee, showing
sections ail different stages of its manufacture,
and the materials that go into it.
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iWe believe: that this will interest you very much
And inasmuch as this is the first time you have
had an opportunity to see the inner materials of
furniture, fjye trust that you will call and inspect
it thoroughly.
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“The^Home of Dependable Furniture’1
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SOUTH FRONT STREET
FOR SALE!
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400 sack| Wichltas Shorts, Red Dog
400 sackif Water Ground Meal
200 sackli Stock Combination Feed
400 sack$ Badger Dairy Feed
400 sacl|j No. 3 White Oats
1,000 bushels White Corn
200 barrels Best Maid S. R. Flour
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Intercut Quarter July First
Deposits inade in our savings department on or
£ before July 3rd
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draw interest from. July 1st
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- 106 N. FRONT STREET
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Light Delivery Cats are saving more than
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Start now toward the ownership of a Ford
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Under the terms of this
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You, interest. Each week you
add a little more — this also draws x
interest. And in a short time the/
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Authorized Sales and Service
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Depository

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SHELL ISLAND BEACH
Invites You to Enjoy Yourself On
MONDAY
Each MONDAY will be the “BIG DAY” at Shell Island
Beach. Special events will be given on this day. May
your engagements—arrange for your family to spend
ktch MONDAY at beautiful Shell Island Beach.
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INDEPENDENCE DAY
JULY FOURTH
will be a Gala Day at Shell Island, Beach. Half, hour
schedule—extra attractions—fine music—surf bathing.
For Clean, Healthful Amusement, Visit
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