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Show PAY ATTENTION TO MARKETS Co-Operatlon Is Something That Makes Marketing Unsatisfactory When It Not Applied. tt cannot be too often emphasized that profitable marketing menus cooperative co-operative marketing. Here are two illustrations that came to our attention atten-tion recently. The first Is that In one Alabama neighborhood some time ago farmers became interested in growing better live stock and took up hog raising. rais-ing. But because they gave no attention atten-tion to the marketing end they crowded crowd-ed their little market town with 600 hogs, whereas It had previously been absorbing probably not more than a hundred, with the result 1hat a large proportion of the hogs were sold at two and one-half to three and one-hail cents a pound gross when Kansas City was paying six cents a pound gross. There is a story about a little boy who said that "salt is something that makes Irish potatoes taste mighty bad when you don't put it on 'em." and this story simply Indicates that co-op eration is something that makes mar keting very unsatisfactory when yoi: don't apply it. In the other instance a group ol North Carolina farmers obtained the services of a government expert ii cotton grading, and on one lot of 37E bales officially graded, and shipped tc Norfolk, Va., a clear profit of $80 was realized over and above the prices of fered by the local cotton buyers. As the friend said who told us this inci dent: "This Illustrated the advantage: both of expert grading and also th advantages of selling In large quan titles. For both of these results co-op eration is necessary the organizatioi of farmers' marketing associations. Ii 1 this same county an investigation las year showed that the men marketinj ! as much as ten bales at a time aver ' aged $1.1 5 more a bale than those win : sold single bales." The Progressive 1 Farmer. |