Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-01-25
THE FARMERS
MEETING AT FARGO
Extracts From the Tri.State Con.
vention Talks at Fargo
Last Week.

way " NNt'ASO ANoOA o411So CA1C l1dl1dSC-
ment Of land and stock that we COIL
fine ourselves to giving only some
extracts regarding the marketing of
products and the buying Of supplies.
Mr.. Major is an old and successful
farmer OF North Dakota, man VINO
has mastered the business of produce
tion on the farm and now has turned
his attention to the question of GET
ting for himself what he has earned.
He is man of force and intelligence
and very honest and earnest.
President Worst then introduced 0.
G. Majors of Hope, N. d., who spoke
on "Farmers' Elevators - Excerpts OF
his remarks folloWs:
81 shall attempt to tell you little
about the farmers sales movement.
1--we been in the work for ABOUT
fifteen years.
1.-The old line elevators give you
farmers more tatfy than any class of
men in the world, and we farmers
are the biggest suckers on the face
of the earth.
''Where we have farmers elevators,
it's fact that the farmers have
gotten or cents more bushel than
they have where there aren't any.
1.-The commission houses don't
want US to get together cause they're
getting the cents a bushel that the
farmers elevators save for you.
1T costs you 5 cents bushel
commissions and 10 cents bushel
freight to the railroads, just to get
rid OF your crop.
81 believe the man who pre-
duces the crops ought to get
the full benefit OF them, and l
don't think it's right that you should
be giving up one-fourth Of your crop
just to get it sold.
Organization is what we need, so
we Cali have terminal house below
at Minneapolis and Duluth. They
tell us we can't get terminal house
but let's show em we can.
''We want farmers elevator at
every station in North Dakota, and
when we get it we'll have the grain
trade in this state where we want
1t, and the farmers will get what
They're entitled to, the full price
for their work. Following Mr.. Major
President Worst said:
II just want to offer a little
suggestion.
ION a crop of $4,000, 900 bushels
that cents bushel that the farmers
elevator saves for the farmer, would
build 800 Sc, 900 elevators in one year.
It's worth thinking about. If you
just set aside cents bushel on what
you sell for year, you would have
the problem half solved, and at practi-
cally no expense.
Mr.. Moore, followed with few
additional facts on the situation,
giving practical ideas on how to run
farmers elevators.
President Worst then introduced J.
S. Mcdonald who talked on The
History of the Minnesota Farmers
Exchange.
81 want to say to you that though
when [ was here last | said fellow
farmers, and though I wish could
say it today, many things combined
to force me out of the practical
farming.
''But, farmers, I want, to say to
you, while we have no fault to find
with the man who puts a price on
his merchandise or machinery, we
do have fault to find with the man
who says that the farmer hasn't
right to put price on the products
of the soil.
''But the question before US today
is, if as has been stated there would
be so immense a sum coming into
the state through the farmers doing
their own grain selling, isn't it worth
attention?
1t strikes me that such state of
affairs would upbuild the state and I
believe it would be better to have the
MOI ey here in the state, than to
have it go to Minneapolis and
Duluth to buy automobiles.
"They call me crank on this
subject of farmers elevators.
Well, it takes cranks to turn the
machinery of commerce, and I'm
just one of them cranks.
"Gentlemen, the NJ. l hard that
you raise here, never gets to the
export trade.
It's mixed with rejected and soft |
southern wheat and still sold as No.
1 hard northern. =.-..~'.
''Now farmers, to remedy these
conditions, you've got your elevators
all over this state, terminal house
at the market and commission house
to handle your grain. 49,"