Th« estimate of poultry products
sold from Alabama farms last year
amount to twenty million dollars,
one-fourth the amount of money
received by the farmers for the
cotton crop. The farmers are not
receiving eest of production for
beef cattle, hogs, or sheep. With
a system of eold storage w are
housse, when animate are ready
for slaughter they can be shipped
to the consuming centers, where
there are slaughter houses as well
as federal inspection. The ani
mals can be slaughtered, placed In
cold storage and placed on the
market a« there is demand. When
the farmer's pastures are eaten
out, and the animals ready for
market, every day they are carried
over there Is a loss, for fesd and
cars, rractlcally all the pastures
are eaten out about the same time,
and every fgrpner wants to welt j |
the demand is not sufficient to
care for all the stuff at the same
time—a fact that the buyers are
well aware of—and somehow the
price Just naturally drops, The
farmer needs his money to meet
obligations, and the Intermediate
credit law was enacted to take
care of just such conditions. Stored
In government licensed, cold stor
age warehouses, money can be had
at a I«w rate of Interest, and the
fanner can meet his obligations;
with but a nominal carrying
charge, his products can be mar
keted In an orderly manner as
thsre Is demand, with no chance
for the crowd who have been ex
ploiting him heretofore taking ad
vantage of hie condition. Thle sys
tem will prevent the frequent and
violent fluctuations In price, inur
ing to the benefit of the producer
as well as the retailer and con
sumer.
