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Show BANKER IS MANAGER OF COTTON GROWERS Allen Northington to Direct the Alabama Farm Bureau Association. "We are tired of spellbinders nnd hopefuls; th.3 man who Is to direct our organization must have made a success of Ills own affairs and the affairs af-fairs lie has handled for others. He must be a two-fisted, bull-necked he-go-getter." So Bald the Alabama growers grow-ers of cotton when they formed the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton association. asso-ciation. Their next step was to reach over Into tlie First National Bank of Pratt- ; ' 'rW , j Allen Northington, General Manager of Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association. vllle, Ala., and take Its farmer president, presi-dent, Allen Northington, as their general gen-eral manager. Mr. Northington has been general manager of the Alabama Farm Bureau Bu-reau Cotton association since It was organized, July 1, 1922. He has secured se-cured at Interest rates of five and six per centum near $4,000,000 to finance fi-nance the organization and make advances ad-vances to Its farm members, and has an untouched credit account of $3,-000,000 $3,-000,000 with the War Finance corporation, cor-poration, and $2,000,000 with other financial Institutions. First the farmer were advanced 12 cents a pound on their cotton, then 8 cents more, and now preparations are being made for an additional 5 cents, bringing the total to 20 cents a pound, which will be represented In more than $5,000,000, and more advances are to be made. The organization has Bold more than 15,000 bales of cotton so far and the average price Is above 25 cents a pound. |