Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 7 | Nine Hands

f Nine Hands 5 1 1 tJ A f BALE ALE of cotton passes through an average i f f nine hands from the thc time it leaves the thc ti jy farmer friner till it ft reaches the the thc mill This statement f. f Mis made the other day ay by a t s speaker eake before t the theS e r S me of the the American Cotton association in P 5 lib He Ro Rock Ark S Cotton otton ton probably passes through more hands a ti I has more moi e profit tolls taken out along the they theS c than any other other- crop h in America S S y The little cotton farmer fanner sells his bale from a ai platform i platform OJ or in a little town to some small r f r The Thc small buyer may sell to a bigger yer or 01 to a speculator The speculator may mayU 1 U to a city buyer and buyer and so on down the line ch h purchaser expecting to get a pr profit out of 1 I iL s' s transaction S Thus by the thc time cotton reaches reaches' th the mill a aS S of profits ha have v been beel ta taken en out of it by Jf who who had no vit vital 1 part in in its production or nc S t For Por many years cars cotton farmers have com com- z j e that their crops have never ver brought them u P And meanwhile middlemen specula- specula ors rs and spinners have made untold profits If To lo combat these conditions Oklahoma cotton q ers are organizing a cooperative association r ugh which they will be able to to hire expert cl c who will see that they are paid ac- ac f to the actual grade of the cotton theyS they S gp produce o uce and experienced salesmen who will seek J r to 9 market the cott cotton n direct t to large buyers or mills add and th thus s overlap tI the e heads of of the s small nati middlemen S. S v Jf T In this va way Oklahoma farmers 5 expect to to gain gaino o iT themselves some some of the oC-the the profits which have gone out to to men men who never r conS conri con con- S ri a an i ounce of labor 01 or r a drop of sweat to toS toi S i raising ising of the crop Similar ll movements are in in in progress elsewhere S. S 1 South Southern rn states and a general cooperative i fu marketing J system i is expected to to develop fr from m mJ J hem he ri lh J J