The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1918-07-18
Organize Grain Growers Association

Organize Grain Growers Association
w. ]. Motley of Dickinson, in
charge Of state work for the National
Wheat Growers Association and ID.
+. Shipley of Bismarck, state organ
izer for the Farmers Union. were in
Oakes Saturday and at Union Temple
organized a local branch of the Asso-
clifton with the election of the follow
ing officers:
President-G. B. Phifer.
Vice President-W. NJ. Hutsinpiller
Secretary and Treasurer. A. Don
nelly.
Executive Committee-M. NJ. Cook,
Swan Johnson. w. T. Jones, c. F.
Persinger, r. r. Krause, A. S. Mar
shall, w. E. Kellogg.
Some of the reasons given TO: or
ganiZing are as follows:
For the protection of farmers
who are wheat growers.
2-No one farmer standing alone
can get any protection whatsoever. 4,
3-No community of farmers stand
ing alone can get any protection az
the present time from the fact that
the big milling industries of the
United States of America absolutely
have full control over the price of
wheat, also of all the flour and feed
which they produce from the same.
4-No state in the union at the
the wheat grown than has the farmer,
owing to the manner in which the
grades of wheat is fixed
81 would especially call your at.
tention to the manner of fixing the
grades. After thousands of appeals
had been made against the old Min
nesota grades which practically fixed
the grades on nearly all of the wheat
raised in the United States, and the
farmers had been promised relief
from this unjust discrimination, the
new grades which We're to be adopt
ed were placed in the hands of one
man, Mr.. c. j. Brand. who has been
connected with the biggest exporters
of wheat for several years, and as
soon as his new grades were an
nounced, which all of the grain grow.
ers knew to be very unjust, and after
an appeal had been made to Dr. E.
F. Ladd of Fargo, N. d., series of
meetings were called and the said
G. ]. Brand was invited to attend and
go over these grades with view of
hrv h.
attending this meeting Mr.. Brand
stated that he did not think that DIR.
Ladd's figures were of any value, and
he asserted most emphatically that
he was giving the farmers all that
they were entitled to.
CDR. Ladd's findings have never
been disproved by any concern able
to make accurate tests of the value of
wheat pertaining to it's flour value
If it had not been for DR.. Ladd and
the backing he had of the organized
farmers of the Northwest wheat grow
ing states, our grades on wheat today
would have been as they were origin
ally fixed by Mr. Brand, causing a loss
of hundreds of thousands of dollars
to the wheat growers.
I've further maintain the grades
are unjust as they now are. This is
one of the things we claim can be
remedied by cooperation and the or
ganization of the National Wheat
Growers Association of America.
Sat the present time when the
manufacturers of any given product
want to increase their profits, they
put up the price. For instance, we
will first consider the packing house
industries; they have at the present
time four representatives of their in
dustries in the food administration in
Washington, D. G.
The millers also have their repre-,
sentatives there; in fact all manufac-
turing interests are fuzzy represented
in Washington by men who specialize
on these different manufactured pro.
ducts.
The farmer has never been con.
sidered business man, nor has farm
ing ever been considered a business
by the rest of the world; he has al
ways been considered a joke. We are
to blame for this condition for the
reason that we have let the other
fellow attend to our business and have
taken whatever he gave us for our
products-and called it good. Shall
we continue this way, and allow the
products of our farm to be handled
by the other fellow and only get forty
two 42) per cent for our share of all
we produce?
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