River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17

| dfterHOOn session.
| The committee on resolutions Thy its chair
man, Graves, submitted the following report
| WHEREAS, The grain buyers and warehouse
men of Minnesota are interested parties in the
questions which have been recently agitated il
| reference to grazing ana warenousIng wheat
and their business has been directly affected
| and considerably complicated by the action OF
| the State legislature and the Farmers Board OF
Trade recently established by law; and
WHEREAS, We ought in justice to ourselves
| and our friends, the farmers of Minnesota
with whom we have the most
| intimate business relations to meet together
| and consult as TO the new conditions thus in
| PRODUCED into those relations. to the end that
we may be able to act intelligently and united
| ly in securing that absolute necessity of trade
| perfect fairness to both buyer and seller, and
the maintenance of the honest rights of both
parties; and
WHEREAS, We ought also to take measures
| for the dissemination of correct information as
to the effects of existing proposed laws and
regulations and the value and effect of the
| new patent inventions proposed to cure all the
evils arising from Ignorance or dishonesty in
grading, buying or selling wheat; therefore,
ReSotged, That permanent organization be
formed, to be known as 1.-The Minnesota Asso-
citation of Grain Buyers and Warehouse Men,"
fFhat the annual meeting of such association
shall be held on the first Tuesday of August in
each year, at st. Paul, and that committee of
three be now appointed by the chairman, to
draft a constitu ton and bylaws for the asso-
citation, and report the same to the first annual
| meeting, in August, 1879.
That temporary organization
shall be effected at the present
time, by the election of president, vice
president and one person to serve secretary
and treasurer, to hold Office until the first regu-
lar annual meeting.
hats rrf firm 1nir htYzin n
grain dealer or warehouseman in the State of
Minnesota may become member of the asso-
citation by the payment to the treasurer at or
before the first annual meeting of member
ship fee of five dollars, and subsequently sub
scribing to the constitution adopted.
further Resolved That there should be a
cordial and united endeavor to obey the laws of
the State in grading wheat and fair opportu-
nifty given to test the merits and dement's of
the new system.
Resolved That we approve the action of the
Farmers Board of Trade in adopting the
wheat markets of the world the grades for
Minnesota.
Resolved That we nevertheless object to the
introduction of cumbersome, complicated and
expensive machinery for grading. That we
believe the two-quart measure or tester the
most convenient and perfectly fair measur
for weighing and the half-bushel cumbersome
and its use impracticable. That we regard the
so-calied STACY filler" open to grave objec-
tions-a very unfair instrument to use with
wheat in the imperfectly cleaned condition in
which it usually comes from the farmer and
an instrument principally designed to benefit
patentees and scale manufacturers; but we
will use 1t in obedience to law and wait for the
time when the farmers will surely demand its
abolition.
On motion of Mr.. Barden the report was
adopted, and the committe was discharged.
On motion of Mr.. McIlrath the president APP
pointed the following committee to draft con-
stitution and bylaws to be reported at the an
nual meeting, in August:
Messrs Adams, st. Paul; Graves, Duluth;
Barden st. Paul.