Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-08-23
FAR |IE|R|S R URG GE
$50 WHEAT VIE;
Stut.man County Grain Crow
ers VIII Cooperate With
Government ~ Urge FAIR
Deal.

To obtain an expression of opin-
ion from the farmers, grain growers,
business men, bankers and others
as to what should be. the fair
price, fixed for the 1917 wheat crop,
and that this opinion may be crys-
talized into action and ,brot to bear
upon the price fixing committee at
Washington in influencing this
committee to set price for wheat
fair both to the producer and the
consumer, there was held mass,
meeting of farmers of Stutsman
County and citizens of jamestown az
Orlady hall Wednesday.
That there is difference even in
North Dakota as to this fair price,
is evident Three dollars per bushel
for NO. Northern is being asked
by delegation from the Fargo and
Grand Forks commercial clubs. In
other districts this price is consid-
cred high and perhaps impossible
to obtain from the Washington COM
mittee and number of local farm
ers and other grain growers have
stated they would be fairly well sat
isfied that both the consumer and
the producer would be equitably
treated If minimum price Of $2.2o
per bushel at Chicago or 81 at tha
North Dakota elevators was fixed for
the 1917 wheat crop.
The sudden protest came as re-
suit of Congressman Young's tele-
gram stating that $1.65 per busheI
at the terminal would be fixed
This has been denied and from
Washington comes the statement.
that spring wheat growers Of the
northwest will receive at least 81 n
bushel for their 1917 crop. J. They
may get more. The food admins
tration wheat pr1Is.s price fixing board has
begun its work.
The prevailing opinion is that the
farmer is entitled to more than 81
for his wheat. Five Of 13 favor set
ting the minimum at the same figure
as a week ago, which was 5000 at
Minneapolis and Duluth. The 81
price for the farmer would mean
about 1925 at the terminals.
Instead of fixing price for an
terminals, it is probable that only
one will be set-that at Chicago
the central market of the country.
Majority Ask $3.50 Per BusheI
While expressing the opinion that
even So per bushel for wheat would
not more. than pay expenses to the:
average farmer of North Dakota this
year, large majority of the wheat
growers, representing every section
lof Stutsman county; at the meeting
held at Orlady hall, jamestown, We'd
nesday night, voted to urge the
wheat price fixing committee at
Washington to set the price at, at
least, $3.50 per bushel, at the local
elevator, or net to the farmer. ALI
the men present felt that it was an
fair to the North Dakota farmer and
the farmers of other northwestern
states VINO harvested late, that wheat
growers of the central and southern
states should be given advantage OF
the So and higher price and just as
soon as the northwestern crop was
harvested, the government should ar
bitrarily lower the price to 81 OF
$1.65 per bushel. Furthermore the
wheat growers stated. that as they
were forced to pay the highest price
ever known in history for machinery
and for everything else they bought
lit seemed only fair that the farmers
grain should also bring q price ade-
auate to permit the farmer to con-
tinue in the business, and that the
farmer should not alone be the class
to be sacrificed. There was also dis
tinct atmosphere of fine patriotism
exhibited at the meeting, In that the
farmer stood behind the governments
in the prosecution Of this war to
successful end; no class Of men in the
United States are more loyal or patri-
otic than the farmers Of North Dako--
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