The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-18
ANY PRICE LESS.
THAN So CLAIMED.
TO BE UNF AIR FOR.
new WHEAT CROP
Such is the Decision Reach
ed at Meeting of Busi-
ness Men and Farmers
COMMITTEE GOES TO
WASHINGTON TODAY
Immediate Action in Price
Fixing is Urged in Res
olutions Passed

Any price less than So a
bushel is not a "fair price"
for wheat.
This was the conclusion
reached at a mass meeting
of representative Fargo
business men and Cass
county farmers in the Far
go Commercial club rooms
this morning.
While no specific amount
over So was named, it was
the sense of the meeting
that in view of the high cost
of labor, the comparative
ly small yield and the fact
that northwest farmers
have, in compliance with
the request of the govern
ment, centered their efforts
of the production of wheat,
it would be entirety unfair
to the farmers if the grain
price fixing board, which
meets at Washington next
week, should set a price
anywhere below that
amount.
A committee, composed
of Aubrey Lawrence, pres
ident of the Commercial
club, and j. Ct. Brown,
farmer, was appointed to
carry the message to the
board at Washington. The
committee will leave for
the national capital on No.
A on the Great Northern
G11S AFTERNOON.
Resolutions Are Adopted.
Resolutions were unanimously
adopted at the meeting urging
immediate action on the part of the
board on the grounds that the mar
kets are so demoralized here as to
make marketing of our wheat almost
impossible, and much grain may suf-
fer great damage from such con-
gested condition from lack of stor-
age facilities, making 1t necessary to
pile the grain in the open on the
ground"
Immediately following adoption,
copies were telegraphed to Harry A.
Garfield, chairman of the price fix
ing board; DR.. p. F. Ladd, Fargo,
president of the North Dakota Agri- |
cultural college and member of the
board, now at Washington; Senators
p. ]. McCumber and A. ]. Gronna,
and Representatives George M.
Young, P. D. Norton, and j.. M.
Baer.
The resolutions follow:
Resolved-That we as representa-
tive farmers and business men OF
this locality protest against a fixed |
price for wheat below its actual
value on the open market. That at
the date. of Mr. eHoover's notice to |
the grain and elevator interests on
Aug. 13 last, the market price was
3.06 per bushel at the Minneapolis
and Duluth terminals.
"This too in face of the fact that
Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and
other winter wheat growing states
had been and were pouring their
produce into the terminals. and en-
joying the full benefit of the prices
fxed by demand and supply.
Just as the threshing of wheat is
possible in the states of North Da-
kota, Minnesota and Montana a price /
less than its actual value is unfair
and unjust to the northwest grow
ers. This fact is further emphasize
ed by the high cost OF production IN
1917 as compared with former
years, and further by the very short
crops of this and last year grown in
North Dakota and Montana
1T will entail upon the govern
ment or the states envolved by such
price fixing the necessity of aiding
the farmers In such districts where
practical failure now exists and
which was true last year-to the ex-
tent of the difference in the price,
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