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  Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association Marketing Agreement and Application for Membership.

  From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. The application for membership was completed by Lawrence B. Goldsmith, a member of the I. Schiffman & Co. firm. The front of the pamphlet notes that this copy is a duplicate.
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  Certificate of membership in the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association.

  From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. The certificate was issued to I. Schiffman & Co. on March 19, 1930.
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  Correspondence between I. Schiffman and Co. in Huntsville, Alabama, and Allen Northington of the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association in Montgomery, Alabama.

  From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. In the first letter, Lawrence B. Goldsmith of I. Schiffman and Co. inquires about selling cotton through the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association. In his reply, Northington asserts that "we will be glad to handle any cotton for you that was grown on your farm and make the government advance up to 15.64� Middling basis."
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  Correspondence concerning cooperative marketing of Huntsville-area farmers' cotton.

  From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. The letters contain lists of farmers whose cotton I. Schiffman & Co. is marketing through the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association. The materials include notes from each farmer instructing the Association to hold their cotton in the "regular annual pool [...] subject to lien on same held by I. Schiffman & Company." Each letter indicates the value of the cotton.
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  Materials regarding prices and cooperative marketing of the 1930 cotton crop.

  From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. The materials include letters and instructions for handling and delivering the 1930-31 cotton crop to the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association. The instructions describe the different pools available for marketing cotton and lists warehouses throughout Alabama to be used for storing cotton. The last item, a letter from N. S. Stewart, discusses low cotton prices since 1926 and lists advantages of marketing cotton through the Association.