Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-08-24
ECONOMY
CAMPAIGN IN
MARKETING
Wastage in Marketing M
Products.

Chicago, Aug. 17.-An economy
campaign of nationwide extent will
be started by American farmers at
the Fourth National Conference on
Marketing and Farm Credits, called
today to meet in Chicago, December
40, at the Hotel Sherman. The
campaign will begin with practical
plans for checking enormous vast
ages in marketing farm products.
This annual wastage is of billion dol
lar magnitude, according to a state
ment of general committee.
1.-THE root of it lies in defective To-
cal organization of farmers says
Secretary Charles w. Holman OF
Madison, Wisconsin, "and delega-
tions will work out machinery for
getting the local communities more
tightly organized"
Prior to the conference surveys
will be made, under the direction OF
the committee, that will show the
movement of crops such as live
stock, grain, hay, cotton and perish
able products. The whole milk sltu-
alton in it's relation to city distribu-
tion problems will come in for con-
siderable share of attention.
To bring out more vigorously the
evils in the "present .wasteful sys-
tenn of handling farm products" the
conference will conduct special hear
ings open to the public. Local and
general conditions will be taken up
bv competent witnesses and remedies
will be outlined.
The rural credits section will an
alvze the scope and limitations OF the
Federal Farm Loan Act so that the
American farmer may know what to
expect under it's terms. This section
ia to conduct hearings to develop
facts as to the status in America OF
the farm tenant, the farm laborer
and the immigrant In his relation 10
~,,,, ,anu. the conference ieaders q eas'
meet the hearing to put the delegates
in a position to sound the dominant
chord in the formation of a compre-
hensive land policy for the United
States. How to handle the lmml-
grant and how tc move landless men
tn the land will be stressed. Econo-
mists, government officials and lead
ers in industries dependent on farm
ing will cooperate.
The National Conference on Mar
keting and Farm Credits is an open
forum in the fourth year of its ex-
istence. All Of its meetings nave
been held in Chicago. In 1915 dele
cations came from 46 states and
from several provinces in Canada.
Its general committee signing the
call are: Chairman Frank l.. McVey'
Grand Forks, N. D., president of the
University of North Dakota; Clifford
Pinchot, Milford, Pa; Governor
Arthur Capper, Topeka, Kans.; II. j..
Waters, Manhattan, Kans.; Colonel
Frank F. Holland, Dallas, Tex; Lon
ID
son. Spokane, Wash; Harris Weln-
stock. San Francisco, CAL; H. J.
Hughes and E. M. Tousley, Mime
apolis, Mimi; ]. G. Caldwell, Lake
field, Mimi; Charles Mccarthy and
Charles w. Holman, Madison, WIS.,;
w. l.. Ames, Oregon, Wis.,; E. T..
Meredith, Des Moines, Iowa; George
w. Simon, Frank E. Long and NJ. II.
Myers, Chicago; Herman W. Dan
forth, Washington, ILL.,; Charles 5.
Barrett, Union City, Ca; Roger Der
by, Jackson Springs, N. c.; Clarence
Poe, Raleigh, N. c.; John Lee Coul-
ter, Morgantown, w. Va; +. +. Har-
ris. Montclair, N. j.; L. S. Herron'
Lincoln, Neb.; J. M. Caffrey, Frank
lin La.: l.. D, H. Weld, New Haven,