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".'""r-'.'-v'' : "' r ": marileting-specials ..'-Tv i vri -r Vol. XXXL No. 30. SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1916. $1 a Year; 5c a Copy Begin Co-operative Marketing Even If on a Sinall Seale IF OUR farmers are to prosper as they should; they must learn to market cooperatively. What would happen each; worker in a cotton mill or a steel mill or a fertilizer factory tried to market his own product each season, independently of his , fellow-workers? We proper grading and packing methods in order to get full market prices In the matter of selling butter j ; notice Mr. Green's report that wlse.selP ing methods are bringing his neighbors 10 to 12 cents a pound profit. . 5, fruit poultry", 0 ft a 'mi 5" ..." " ; ,s 4 0 V iwia.taMjM..-.ji.n(.1)tiMM r)) :'iiwi-ruwtlni: SHEEP ON. BLUEGRASS PASTURE can easily imagine how .' excessive "would ;be the costs; dnd; how much greater are the profits made in manufacturing today because in every factory in America there is one selling agency or office selling buenuncaiiy tne product of spores, hun dreds, or even thousands of individual workers. Farmers must learn this same lesson, and that they are learning it, is proved by the letters in this issue. If you can't go any further, be satisfied to make a start by selling in cooperation witl your father, brothers, and near kins folk, taking inpther neighbors as 'fast as you can convert Jhem to the better way. Here's a new. cottbn crop soon coming on the market, for example. Begin planning to get it properly graded, 4 and then g$t two, ten or:twenty neighbors p sell with you, Pooling cotton seed -may get you higher profits than you-' think possible, some cooperators receiving 2500 Rounds of meal for a ton of seed this spring.: Vor take" tobao.rrt rea A rA: z A i t, , jl ' , vm page 10 uuw sunic I armers are getting big profits by turning, 1 -w umDinea patronage to warehouses tnat recognize them. If" you are selling corn, hay, meat, etc., it is all the more im Portant to sell in quantities, and learn FAIL TO READ- Paee Let's Cooperate With Neighbors and Avoid Speculative Crops v What the North Carolina Division of Mar kets Is Doing . . A Page of Cooperative Marketing Experi ences . , A Success Talk by Dr. Chas. W. Eliot . . Helping Farmers Find Markets . . . Grading and Packing Cantaloupes for Market - ' Two Principles of Successful Marketing . Books and Publications on Marketing . . Make a Start with Cooperative Marketing 13 Pfltrnnfl cta Dividends Exblained - '. ". 13 HoW to Wash Clothes . . . . . . . . Labor-saving Devices in the Home .: . Legumes: ! Nature's' Soil Restorer and the : Farmer's Elest, Crop ... Cooperation in Tobacco Marketing . ; . What Hawaii Is Doing in Cooperative ' Marketing . . . . . eggs, etc., on the avragfarm. Too often one farmer makes a trip to town just to sell a ham, another to sell a half-dozen pullets, another to sell a bushel of peas, another to sell a peck of onions. Each man's time is worth almost as much as he gets out of his sales. The farmer does not know 4 5 6 6 7 8 9 12 14 14 17 18 22 market conditions nor what are fair prices. The whole system is about the -worst ; that could be imagined. How much better it would be for every neighborhood to adopt instead a plan such as farmers in one neigh borhood recently. adopted: One man was em ployed to act as marketing agent for the en tire group, going to the market town, say on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and setr ing for a commission of 15 per cent. Three collecting stations were named (at farmers homes), one say three miles, one six miles, and one nine miles from the market town. To these collecting stations "the neighbors sent on, MondaV. Wednesday and Friday even ings whatever stuff they wished their mar ket man to selt for them the following, day. Thus one man may do the work of many; a regular line of customers may be built up; the marketing man will know what prices are right and get them; and there are other obvious advantages, Begin co-operative selling now! :3 1 ' I J 3 m si: 1 1' j M it t l"f ' r! 1 I mi 41 r i j ( it tl 1 r; i ': mm mm mm V. ' s f f ' s. mm J. '. i - if-.,' mil III! m a , 51 t, W Hi it I , ; M : I - Yt'i iT:. f in , It , t i i . -a -if. fill f 1-1 : ' ! i - ! ! , , v i-. " hu.m !:J! Hi i. ' hi Is, Hi b : -Ml
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