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Show , were next to organize. The Staple Cotton Growers' Co-operative association associa-tion was formed, which signed 2.20C producers of long-staple cotton. In 1921 they marketed 153,000 bales, getting get-ting an average of more than six cents a pound more than outside growers. The Oklahoma plan moved over the line Into Texas, where 12 per cent of the state's acreage was signed. One thousand of the Pima cotton growers of Oklahoma Joined the Arizona Pima Cotton Growers' association, to which nearly half the acreage of the Salt River valley was pledged. During the first marketing year Its sales topped the outside market from one to two cents per pound. In Ave otber states cotton growers began marketing the Sapiro way. There was North Carolina with 27,000 growers and 40 per cent of its acreage acre-age signed by November, 1921. Then followed the Arkansas Cotton Growers' Grow-ers' Cos-operative association ; the Georgia Cotton Growers' Co-operative association ; the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-operative association and the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton association. as-sociation. The last big stt, !n the formation of the cotton marketing machine was the organization of the American Cotton Cot-ton Growers' exchange. This Is an overhead agency which Is attempting to bring together on a common basis the Interests of nil American cotton growers. It was created by the Arizona, Ari-zona, Texas and OKlahoma associations associa-tions in 1921. It alms to standardize the marketing of cotton on a national co-operative basis by co-ordinating the operations of its eight member state associations. Each state association retains full control of its own, sales activities, but it Is expected to employ em-ploy the exchange whenever possible. The co-operative movement has been blessed with two favorable seasons for Its development. But It Is still in an embryonic stage. It has had little influence in-fluence on prices, but a great service has been rendered growers by selling cotton on a grade basis and by selling sell-ing direct to the consuming tradn. r I |