Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-21

markets or in retaining old ones?
None whatever. They have produc'
ed the things to feed the world and
sold them to some one else who
looked after their distribution. They
have exercised no more control over
their products or over those manip'
ulations at the trade centers which
have advanced or deprecated their
prices than the laborer in the iron
mines has exercised: in marketing
steel rails. - The farmer turns his
exclusive attention to production and
pays no attention whatever to the
consumption of the thing produced.
Some one. else does that for him;
and the greed of that some one else
has built up competition at other
points and lost for him market af-
ter market.
Other Industries Make Markets.
Other industries make the .ques-
ton of marketing one of the domi-
nan features to be considered. The
halter, the shoe maker, the clothier,
the manufacturer of farm nipple
ments and machinery first investi'
gate the field Of consumption, ascer'
tains the class of goods that will be
most saleable, the quality and guam
tity that will be needed and the
price the public will be able to pay
He then manufactures to fill that de-
mand. This year he may manufac-
ture one class of articles in excess Of
another. Another year another
class according to the yearly fluctu-
alton or demand. All the informa'
ton necessary for the exercise of his
judgment is obtained through the
proper channel of hts trade organi-
zation.
Suppose now that the agricultural
industry were organized and con-
Quoted it's business the same way.
One. bureau might secure all in
formation concerning the supply and
demand. 1t would advise the trade
that this year so many acres were
in wheat, SO many acres in oats, so
many acres in barley, etc., that the
wheat supply was in excess and that
oats and barley were not up to the
demand. 1t might further advise
trade that the wheat acreage should
be decreased a small per cent and
the oats and. barley acreage increas-
ed so as to produce. the greatest
amount of profit along every line Of
production: Il. The beneficial result
from that alone would be sufficient
to justify the organization even
though no attempt were made to fix
prices. =:
Organize Bureaus =
Another bureau might. investigate
and give to the trade information
upon the questioned preparing the
products for market so as to con-
dice to greater economy in handling
and the saving of what are now
waste prod ucts-your dockage which
you now pay freight: on and then
give away: A dollar saved is al
ways a dollar earned. -
Benefits Already Secured.
Your organization, although in its
infancy. has ALREADY been Of great
value and benefit: The, literal tire it
is bringing home to you is; full Of
valuable information. j IT., is .enlarg-
ing your own vision as to those con-
ditions directly affecting your inter-
ests. 1t Is bringing home to you
that fundamental truth that in un-
ity there is strength. 1t is carrying
to those who have unjustly treated
your products a note of warning, a
signal Of danger. 1t is building ele-
vators In whose profits you have a
01rect interest, and every word of
condemnation of your progress that
comes from the mixers and gamblers
is gem in your crown of righteous
-endeavor. You are more closely
following the advice of your society
and reaping benefits accordingly,
Heretofore you have rushed your
grain to market in the threshfng
season, increasing the visible supply
and depressingi tho PRICE. This year
you have to great extent held back
that supply and the result has been
that Notwithstanding the fact thst
you raised this year about 81, 900, zoe
more bushels of wheat than in 1908,
which. had to compete! with the
worlds market. you have still kept
your price nearly Up to the price Of
the 1908 crop: .. :, 'f's =,
=: :orxs,.;ts.ttd4 ). Nspes;++,tr. -
Mr.. Chairman, I have tried to pre-.
sent some Of the benefits which viii
result from national aericultunSi