The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-19

President, G. 3. Hoffman, Enterprise
Vice president, c. l. Brinkman. Kan
sas City
Secretary, Otto Swaller. Kansas City.
Treasurer. H. Hackney, Topeka.
The Kansas Milling and Export as
sociation was first started in Kansas
City on May p and it is
millers trust. The directors who were
in session here Tuesday adjourned to
meet in Kansas City at the Coates
house next Saturday June p. at 80.
The dilemma in which the association
finds itself is the lack of a manager
who is thoroughly conversant with the
wheat and milling industry
The aim and object of the new associ-
alton, so the members say. is to estab-
lish and maintain standard grades of
flour in the large markets of the world
both foreign and domestic.
The general headquarters of the new
association Will be maintained at Kan
sas City Branch offices will also be
opened in both London and New York
The launching of this company seems
to be about to bring about realiza-
tion of the hopes of the Kansas miller,
that of placing the Kansas product be-
fore the world on an equal footing with
the product of the older and already
esta blished mills of the north. This
means a long step forward in trades ex-
tension. A great deal of attention will
be paid to export trade and new mar
kets viii be opened up to the Kansas
m1IlerS tnaT nave been heretofore De-
yond their reach.
The Farmers Cooperative Grain and
Live Stock association is friendly to
the Milling and Export company A. p.
Collins, one of the directors of the Far
mers' association. was at the meeting
and in a 80 minute address expressed
the friendly feeling which his associa-
tion held for the Millers' and Milling
associations, and asked for their hearty
cooperation.
He rehearsed the history of the var
ious methods the farmers have had of
dispOsing of their wheat and said:
1.-The changes wrought by the introduc
tion of elevators, and the refusal of the
railway companies to furnish cars for
shipment of grain to any one but the
owners of the line elevators COM
PEELED the farmers to dispose of their
wheat to the owners of the elevators,
the only competition being such prices
as the elevator men felt disposed to
offer.
ITO this our people rebelled. feeling
that the wheat was their own and that
they had a natural right to sell to
whom they chose or to ship it on their
own account. This caused the general
movement over the state to organize
for the purpose that the farmer might
dispose of his wheat by shipment.
1--WE regard the millers as our natural
friends he said "and as they are our
neighbors, with their capital invested
in mills as ours is in our farms, we feel
that there should be a friendly spirit
between the two. We are not tempOr-
arily located in the state. but perman-
emily. We are interested in the state.
And anything that is to the interest of
the farmer is to the interest of the
miller. without the prosperity of the
farmer there can be no prosperity of
the miller.
.Our interests are alike in other di-
rections. It is to sell our wheat and
the wheat products for the highest pos
sible price, by raising the standard and
quality to the highest possible plane.
This will enable the miller with such
wheat to grind a better grade of flour
Consequently he viii be able to sell for
a higher price, thereby making it pos
sible for him to raise the price of wheat
to the farmers.
1--WE have felt in the past that the ex-
porting of scant grades of wheat to for
eign markets has been detrimental to
the interests of the farmers in that a
No. grade wheat has been shipped snd
that in this respect the wheat was not
equal in milling value to some grades of
wheat sold by the farmer.
Thus the market has been depressed
for Kansas wheat in the European mar