American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-04-11
FARMERS STUDY MARKETING
WITH FARM MARKETS HEAD.
Interesting Farmers Meeting Being
Held at Court House Where Market
ing and Grain Grading Problems
are Being Threshed Out

are Being ThreShed Out
Miles Cannon, Commissioner OF
Agriculture, and G. X. Landers, one
of the government grading heads Ior
the northwest, met with the FARMERS
at the court house yesterday noon auu
began a bearing which VIII continue
until Saturday. A commlItee mas a
nointed by Mr. Cannon to conduct the
boarino and formulate recommenda-
tions which will become the basis Ior
regulations to be promulgated for the
MARKETING of farm products IN thls
state. q. .ha
Mr. Cannon, in his statement TO the
committee and the farmers present
said that the state was entering upon
new field. as Idaho is the first state
to undertake the supervision OF tne
grading and marketing of the farmers
nroducts The movement Will not
reach perfection, he said, for several
yaars because the problems are new,
and experience must be depended upon
for the carrection of such indaquacles
as may develop, ,.
He stated to the meeting, however,
that if the farmers did not get Wnat
they wanted it would be their OWL
fault because his department "ouiu
carry out the recommendations nlaue
insofar as they do not connlct WIN
government regulations and stahu-
ards. Meetings are beng helu III
several counties of the state ~ 60
nnaatings were devoted to wheat. rms
ia tbe third wheat meeting, the two
sthers having been held at Mosco"
and Twin Falls.
Tbe recommendations made by the
committeeies at these three meetings.
will be considered together, and then
taken to the government graders al
Portland. where they will be consider
cd in connection with the government
standards and regulations, ana
marketing system worked out as near
lv as the COMMITTEES recommend as
the government standards and marx
citing conditions will permit.
MT Landers, the government rep,
resentatiye at the meeting, explained
government grades and markeIine
conditions, imparting much Valuaplt
information. He answered questions
freely and did not hesitate to dlsagret
with the farmers when he thousn
their suggestions were lmpraclical'
Grading the Big Question.
Tho Grading of grain was the bis
uuestion OF the afternoon ihhi 7uay
The discussion largely reVolVeC
around the question of whether grad
ing should be made compulsory OF
optional with the producers A mae
iority of the meeting facored compul
sory grading. A majority of the com
mittee. in taking the vote, .taVore'
making it optional ,
Without exception the gram dealer'
present favored the grading Oh Il
what sold, by a government licensed
grader. but divided upon the question
of whether grading should be opucna
or compulsory. Some OF them belleV
ed that II would be an impossiD1llty U
grade every load that came in, on ac
count of the time it would take.
Mr.. I,anders, the government man
said that he would not like TO be IN
grader, and that fifty or sixty loau
a day would be all he would want u
undertake. Asked if it would be nee
essary to take samples from ever
sack in making the grade, ne sal
that it would, as certificate could no
be issued in that manner except as
the sample inspected.
Several of the farmers advocate
the employment of a number Q
graders. Others thought the delay L
having every load graded would deia
unloading to such an extent as 10 De
come a hardship rather than beneh
The question will doubtless be dls
cussed much more before the meetn
is over.
One development that was unexpec
ted by disinterestod onlookers was
statement by some of the best ID
formed farmers in the county, Una
the grain buyers here we're gradin
higher than government standards
and paying the farmers more tina
they would receive if a governmen
grader were stationed here. This wa
admitted by some of the most arden
advocates of having grader, VINO Ia
vored a grader because they oelieVe
il was necessary in order to raise IN
quality of the grain produced here b
educating the growers to the neces
sity of increasing the quality
Farmers who do not attend tnes
meetings are not only losing an az
portunity to help fix the condition
surrounding the marketing OF thel
products. but are losing much valua
bile information and an opportunity !
learn something of the buyers prof
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