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MARKETS DIVISION
WELL UNDER W
Great Things Expected of New Bureau
in the National Department
of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. —.—
The division of markets in the de
partment of agriculture is getting un
der headway with good prospects that
it will attain the degree of usefulness
hoped for by the men at whose sug
gestion it was established. There are
already twenty-four persons at work,
with Charles J. brand at the head of
the division. It is doubtful if any
movement of similar Importance in
the interest of agriculture was ever
put into operation in so short a time
after it was planned. It Inis been
only about u year and a half since the
officers of the Farmers’ Union first
conferred with Senator Hoke Smith
and Congressmen Callaway of Texas
and Webb of North Carolina, and yet
the division, backed by a fifty thou
sand dollar appropriation, has been
organized ft>r months. , . (jii
The First Suggestion.
In the meetings of the Farmers’ Un
ion the members, in their discussions,
were brought faoe to face with the
fact that all over the country food
was rotting in the fields and orchards
because it could not be gotten to
market Potatoes were twenty-five
cents a bushel in one state and a dol
lar and a quarter a bushel in another,
and so with other products.
It was found that while the con
suming public was paying the highest
possible prices the farmers were not
getting over, say, forty per cent., of
what the consumer paid. It occurred
to the delegates at these national
gatherings that if the government was
to spend millions In teaching scientific
production it might spend sometlking
on scientific marketing, and tills was
tlie germ of the division of markets.
One day in the early spring of last
year five men called at the office of
Senator Hoke Smith. They were
Charles Parrott, ppesident of the
Farmers’ Union; R. F. Ducfiworth, a
member of the legislative committee;
J. H. Patten, attorney for the organ
ization; T. J. brooks and A. C. Da
vis, prominently identified with the
Union. They laid the proposition be
fore the senator. President Barrett
said:
"The best thing you could do for
the farmers of this country would bo
to pass a bill establishing a division
of markets in the department of agri
culture, which would help the farmers
to market their crops. To make a
crop is one thing, but to market farm
products at a profit is really more im
portant than increasing the yield."
Senator Smith entered at once into
the plans and it was decided to enlist
the interest of Congressmen Callaway
and Webb to press the bill in the
house.
The Fight Is Quickly Won
The bill was introduced in the sen
ate by Senator Smith and was passed
without much delay, but it met op
position in tho house, where it did
not get out of the committee, although
Senator Smith did succeed in getting
through an appropriation for a pre
liminary investigation. At the next
session a report covering five hundred
pages was made by the department
of agriculture endorsing the plans of
the bill. For a second time Senator
Smith put the measure through the
senate as a rider on the agricultural
department appropriation bill. The
house conference committee still
fought it, but Senator Smith forced
a compromise by which $50,000 was
included in the appropriation bill for
the preliminary work of starting the
division, so that in about a vear af
ter the first meeting w r as held at
which the officers of the Farmers’
Union suggested the bill the depart
ment was in operation.
Is a G-eat Undertaking.
The task of establishing and work
ing out the division of markets is far
more difficult than would be suppos
ed. At first glance ft seems easy—
merely keeping the farmers advised
as to prices and supply conditions at
various points.
That is not the problem at all. It
w'il! take several years to bring, the
division to the state of usefulness con
templated and in time it may almost
rival the department of agriculture
itself In Importance. When it is re
membered that the agricultural prod
ucts of the country run into the bil
lions and that we have foreign as
well as domestic markets and that
the division will concern itself with
everything from the marketing of but
ter and eggs to the marketing of cot
ton, the groat crops of w heat and corn,
its field of usefulness is almost with
out limit. It means such organiza
tion and co-operation among the farm
ers that the man who produces will
ho afforded shipping facilities with
such reduction of expense between
producer and consumer that both will
be benefited.
A Big C'untry and a Big World.
The country is so large and the
population so scattered as compared
■with parts of Europe that the prob
lem is much more difficult than would
be the cose over there. Germany is
only about two and a half times larg
er than Kansas. Our country is three
thousand miles across and twelve hun
dred miles from north to south. Pro
ducer and consumer are further apart.
Expense of transportation is greater.
Yet we Bee some strange sights. The
division of markets wishes to know
Just now, for instance, why Chicago is
eating cauliflower from Long Island
and California while the vegetable
should be produced in the immediate
vicinity of the Windy City.
Denmark is the most highly organ
ized agricultural country in the world.
It is about the size of four or live
ordinary counties. It produces but
ter, eggs, milk and bacon for the
London and Llverpol markets. Being
so small and devoting itself to these
few things it, of course, has a stand
ard product of known quantity and
all arrangements for shipping and mar
keting can be definitely planned. Con
trast such conditions with those that
surround a Georgia farmer who only
occasionally has a few eggs or a little
butter to sell, with no definite or or
ganized system for getting them to the
market. A source of supply Is almost
as important as a market, for in no
other way can transportation arraiige-
k Pinch
of medicine goes farther
than a bushel of food, for
sickness in stock and poul
try. When you need a med
icine to act quickly and
work thoroughly, try
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It is all medicine, no
food, Made from pure con
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of true curative merit It
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disease poisons. Try it
• Price Be, 50c and SI.OO per can. *
"It is excellent to prevent disease and
as a tonic tor poultry."—Ella Burroughs,
R. F. D. 3, Scottsboro. Ala.
P. A 12
ments be made on good terms. The
parcels post is destined to greatly fa
cilitate these short hauls and small
transactions, but the big business of
farming lias got to look to more ex
tensive co-operation among the farm
ers. In that way they will provide a
definite source of supply in such quan
tity and so standardized as to make
markoting easier.
Investigating Cotton.
There are men in Georgia from the
markets divisions at this time making
an investigation to see if the farmer
who produces a high grade of cotton,
or who handles his cotton with care
receives the actual increased value,
or if his cotton is paid for on practi-
cally the same basis as inferior
grades. Samplers are taking samples
of individual bales, and they will be
followed through to the mills that will
use the cotton.
Information will be gathered as to
what kinds of cotton can be best
produced in a given section and the
farmers will be advised so they can
produce the kiini best suited to that
section and thus help to staiwiardize
the product of that locality.
Along with that will be furnished in
formation as to the kinds of cotton
the various manufacturing points de
sire. Augusta, for instance, has a rep
utation for desiring a high grade of
cotton. The division of markets is in
vestigating to see if Augusta really
pays the higher price for the fine
grades shipped there. Atlanta takes
a different grade, and so on. This sort
of information w'ill put the farmers
wise to marketing conditions.
Community Marketing.
Marketing in community units will
be kept in mind. The consumption end
of the problem will be carefully looked
Into. The whole idea is to bring
the producer and consumer together
with the least possible amount of
waste.
Just now. to illustrate, the division
wants to know why the cotton oil
mill men of South Carolina are over
in Georgia buying seed, while the Geor
gia cotton oil mill men are over in
South Carolina doing the same thing.
But is that any more remarkable
than that the farmers in Denmark
whQ are shipping butter and eggs
to England are buying canned corn
from America at forty cents a can
that is selling in this country at 12
cents? It is said that the farmers
in Denmark are raising so few vege
tables that as a people they are suf
fering in health on that account
City Marketing.
The division of markets is also in
vestigating the matter of city market
ing, which includes wholesaling, re
tailing, auction sales, the utilizing of
trolley car service, etc.
Mr. Brand mentions as an illustra
tion of w hat preparation will do the
method of the Long Island railroad,
which has a big vegetable farm on
Long Island. It has w-hat it calls the
hamper system. A hamper is made
to hold, say, six smaller boxes. A
man in New York gives an order for a
hamper with directions as to what it
shall contain, say, a box of beans, one
of peas, one of turnips and so on,
or he may leave it all to the garden
er and his hamper is sent to him
every two or three days, going di
rectly from the garden to his home.
This idea in the course of time will
be utilized to great advantage through
the parcels post.
Senator Smith regards the division
of markets as of very great import
ance. He expects it to grow into im
mense usefulness. The bill which he
introduced at the suggestion of the
officers of the Farmers’ Union has
been one of his pet measures, rank
ing with his bill for agricultural col
lege extension work, and the part
he has taken in establishing the par
cels post. The senator has spoken
in favor of governmental aid to road
building and believes it is coming in
the near future. With good roads, the
development of the parcels post, with
a farm demonstrator in every county
and the market division helping the
farmers to protect their crops, he
thinks important steps will have been
taken to put agriculture on a busi
ness basis and the American farmer
wHI grow' more and more independ
ent.
SPEND YOUR HOLIDAYS AT THE
HOTEL, ANSLEY
Atlanta, Ga.
Whore all that is ideal in Yt LE
TIDE and Holiday activities will
ho pesented, Its decorations and
appearance will bo metropolitan in
every particular.
MANY PARTIES
From out of town have already made
reservations for the New Year Day
festivities which eclipse anything ever
undertaken in always up-to-date At
lanta. \ r ou will be agreeably suprised
at The Ansley's artistic innovations for
Christmas and New Year days.
SHOPPING PARTIES
Composed of merchants or other in
dividuals will find the warmest Wel
come and heartiest hospitality at
Tlhe Hotel Asusley
your mail telegrams. package and
baggage to the Anslev where they will be
cheerfully cared for Ask your friends to meet
you there because it is centrally tnd convenient
ly located.
ran, the f\fhting head of .Atlan
ta’s park hoard, who :s never hap
py unless he is in a scrap, and
who was the beaten but undaunt
ed hero of Atlanta’s last and
greatest artillery battle, has join
ed the revenue officers and
henceforth is going to devote bis
warike instincts to tile moonshin
ing raids.
Mr. Cochran has been appoint
ed a deputy under Colonel Bud
Blalock, and in the future will
have headquarters up around
Jasper, where he will probably
get all the excitement his nature
craves.
Don’t get the wrong idea of
Mr. Cochran from the above re
marks . He is a genial gentleman
and has never stained his han/ds
with tiie blood of another human
being, but he just naturally loves
a row.
His Dream Came True
Atlanta, Ga., Dec 3—Have you
ever seen a “Castle in Spain,’’
built out of real granite. * Have
you ever known a “Castle in the
xtii 4 ’’ to lie built on earth. Have
you ever seen a childhood dream
come true in after years. If you
haven’t the next time you come
to Atlanta you ought to get in a
motor car, or take the streetcar
and run out to beautiful Druid
Hills, to look at a certain inagnifi
cent mansion that has been built
of Georgia granite, taken from
Stone Mountain.
It looks like a modernized Tu
dor mansion, but it is really a
“castle in Spain.’’ It is a dream
come true. For more than a quar
er of a century Slam 11. Venable
had been saying to himself,“ Yes,
I’ll wait, and wait patiently, aMd
some day I’ll build me a home—
a house beautiful —planned and
constructed entirely after my
heart's desire.
He is one ofjthe few men who
has refllzied such an ambition anc.
his home today is the admiration
of all xYtlanta .
Coming and Going of
SEABOARD
TRAINS.
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North Bound
No. 6 Arrives 4:11 P. M.
No. 12 “ “ 11:26 P. M.
No. 30 “ *' 9:55 A. M.
No. 18 “ “ 7:00 P. M.
South Bound
No. 5 Arrives 3:46 P. M.
No 11 “ “ 5;41 A. M.
No. 29 “ “ 7:0) P. M.
No 17 “ “ 7:54 A. M.
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