Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-10
ONLY ONE FAILURE TO SETTLE
Four Hundred Delegates Are Now
Registered at Meeting,
WAYNE TELLS OF TRADE EVILS
Says Private Crop Reports Are
Menace TO the Market
PLEADS FOR UNIFORM RULES
PreaideRt Gross of Soil Fertility
League Explains Plan for IncreRs-
ing CrOps--AnnuaI Ban
uuet Comes Tonight.

Decrease of the number Of lawyers in
the country through the abolition of liti-
cation among grain dealers is threatened
by the Grain Dealers National associa-
ton, which began its three-dsy annual
convention at the Rome Monday.
Members of the organization are com
pelled by its rules to submit all their diff
ferences to the arbitration committee and
Secretary ]. f. Courcier reported Mon
day that all of the fifty odd cases arising
within the year were settled sstisfac-
torily except one. In which case MEM
ber was expelled because he would not
abide by the decision of the committee.
The association has more than 1000 mem
bers, almost 400 Of whom are registered at
the present meeting.
Evils ct the Trade.
President f. NJ. Wayne of Delavan ILL.,,
in his annual address, spoke of some of
the evils of the trade. He said the rail-
roads should be prevented from raising
the carload minimum now 10000 pounds;
that for the protection of the shipper.
interest on drafts should cease when
grain is inspected, not when it is un-
loaded that circulars sent out by in
dividual firms, prophesying the fluctua-
tions of the market are an abomination to
the trade, because they create a preju-
dice in the public mind; that private crop
reports are a menace to the trade, be-
cause their only purpose Is to cause fluc-
tuation in the market.
The great hobby of the association is
the adoption of uniform rules for the
trade by all grain exchanges of the
country; on the sruund that lack of uni
formity demoralizes the trade.
If the exchanges themselves will not
adopt uniform rules, said Mr.. Wayne,
then IL is up to the association TO ask
the government to compel them to do it,"
Plan to Increase Crops.
H. IL Gross, president of the National
Soil Fertility league which has a plan
10 increase American crops $1O0 per
capita per year. at an expense of 10 cents
per capita per year, expls ned his plan
TO the grain men as follows:
The farm bulletins Of the government
are too technical; they do not tell the
farmer what he needs to know; the in
formation is too general, and IL Is not
clothed in the language of the farm
The next step In agriculture is to send
out into every agricultural county a
trained agriculturist. or soil chemist to
study local conditions and cooperate
with the farmers in putting the knowl-
edge into practice on the respective
farms. This man should give his whole
time to this work, going from farm to
farm, from community TO community.
This plan has been tried In a oderately
large way in the south and has been
wonderfully successful
The National Soil Fertility league was
formed TO keep this matter before the
public until the federal government and
the state shall join in sufficient appro-
priations so that the colleges of agri-
culture may undertake this extension
work as a part of their regular duties
The plan was enthusiastically en-
dorsed by President Taft In his address
at the Conservation congress at Kansas
City, September %. Mr.. Bryan and nearly
all the speakers at the congress gave
the plan enthusiastic support. The presi-
dents Of the agricultural colleges are a
unit in indorslng it,"
Secretary Courcier brings the news
that j. Adam Bede. former aIinne sofa
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