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Show SECURING UNITY OF ACTION More and Better Farmers' Organizations Organiza-tions Are Needed Concerted Effort in South Carolina. The farmers need organization and sadly lack, at present, means to secure se-cure unity of action among the several sev-eral states. Those who are interested interest-ed in buying cheap cotton act as a unit, while we farmers are a disorganized disor-ganized mass with no concert of action. ac-tion. The South Carolina State Ware-bouse Ware-bouse System shows what can be accomplished ac-complished by concentrated effort, writes John L. McLaurin in Progressive Progres-sive Farmer. When we began to take over warehouses we found the insurance insur-ance rates so high as to be almost prohibitive. The difference between a warehouse In the country and a fourth class town was so great that it was impossible to store cotton except in the towns. The rate In the country-was country-was $3.50 a hundred, and on a house of the same construction in a town where there was no water protection, It was $1.75. We have had a considerable consid-erable battle, but have won out, and are now getting a rate of $1.58 a hundred hun-dred on cotton stored in the country, and with ro distinction made between a country warehouse and a warehouse In a fourth class town. The intention of the system is to provide for direct sales from the state warehouse to the cotton manufacturers, manufactur-ers, but, owing to the war. I have not deemed It advisable to attempt this as yet. However, there is no practical practi-cal reason why it cannot be done, and I shall probably take steps in that di rection before long. |
