Middletown transcript., 1907-01-26
AN EXAMPLE TO WHEAT GROWERS
Farmers Should Orgrnize to Obtain
Profitable Prices for Their Products

i Profitable Prices for Their Pr0duefs
Wheat growers OF New Castle Count
are yoa less courageous, less careful
5 yssnr nstsigilts, worse business men ilia
! ihp tobacco growers Of Kentuckya I'll
American sss:iets Of Equity which
entirely al aalsisory and educational a
eirtys and aeyer owns as society az
farm product, is wanting to get tIoroug
organization in the comparatively fe,
large producing counties, OF which Nel
Castle Comfy is one. It's going or ha
! gore into eech Of these counties, callin
4 on The farnfers to organize to obtain prof
table prices Tor their wheat and othe
farm products Ifany farmer has dump
ed OF i'll dump his wheat this year, b
il extremely fnelish. unless he is in dir.
need.
Can The A. S. of L get dollar wheal
this big crop season? II can and will. if i
j Las HE aid Of tile farmers OF the greal
wheat counties for it is IN this fight fol
wheat growers against their exploiters al
il never had the funds and full prestige Ia
he beft,re.
How abnit those Kenteuky tobacco
growers? Well we'll just tell yon. For.
ts-twe da, 5 before January I'd, 1907, q
campaign was begunto organize twenty
three counties in Kentucky. They COM
prised what is known as the hurley to-
baecn district. The society started out to
organize tile farmers so that they would
agree to hold 80 per cent. Of their crop BY
January 1st.
Il is doubtful if ever any campaign
within such an area for either bnsi-
ness or political purpose ever surpassed
this in energy or enthusiasm. AIT q
meeting held at Winchester January %,
where tile canvass Of pledged crops was
made, it was found that 60 per cent. of
tile tobacco grown in this district was
under control This positively assures
the minimum price set. which was Is.
cents pound.
This shows what can be done-because
il has been done. Agriculture has never
before had the inestimable benefit of
such plan. Such a result, the Ken
lucky farmers claim, could never have
been accomplished, except through such
organization as that promoted by the
American Society Of Equity. This is as
cured through the fact that other plans..na-
cessitating the eexpenditnre Of many thous-
ands Of dollars, were tried in the district
for three years before and failed.
Now for the wheat counties. Hon. II.
B. Sherman, national organizer of the
As of e., who mas conducted the to-
bacco growers campaign SO successfully,
il starting with these thirty counties in
Kansas
Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud. GoYley,I
Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, |
Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln, Mar.
ion, McPhersons Mitchell, Osborne, OF
1awa, Pawnee, Phillips, Pratt, Reno, Rice,
Books, Rush, Russell, Saline, sedgwick,
Stafford aud Sumner.
These are all together, forming what is
Eery nearly a square, and they will prob
IDLY be all together, afour-square to all
Ihe winds that blow well organized for
profitable price for wheat when Mr..
sherman gets through with them. This
ismpaign will extend into Oklahoma and
c. The belt isthe greatest wheat
Il - l1a,u;u the United States.
'hfnk Of what the Wfieat' srusU1S 81 .iss9 .Aiiss
orion OF the country alone could do Il
hiA year if organized on the A. s. of E.
la But the work will not be confined
8 ese three states. r
s lthertl Indiana's and Southern Illi-
on heavy wheat-producing counties
i'll be thoroughly organized in very
hort time, and campaigns like the one
leutioned above are being arranged for
Iihaesota and each of the Dakotas. As
stant national organizers will be put
j charge of them. It is proposed so toi
rgAllize the 252 counties in the United |
tai iss which produce go per cent. Of the
shphs. so as to get q profitable price for
be BEST wheat crop ever grown, instead !
having to sell for smaller total than |
nall crops, as has been the case in former .
ears The time has come to call a halt,
I'd ii will be called :