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(h) transportation.

Each one OF these departments
will have its own adequate manager.
specializing on the work of his de-
partment.
(a) The production department
will have charge of problems of pro-
duction, BSmarily in an advisory
capacity giving scientific instruction
in reference to proper planting and
expected yield of the particular va
rieties of wheat and the proper man
ner of planting and harvesting the
same in each state.
90 The department of warehous-
ing and grading will work in con-
junction with the various state cor
portations and act as supervisor
over them. 1t will establish the nee
essary grades and handle the vari-
Gus problems indicated by it's title
This department together with
the financing department will han
die the insurance problems, unless
the exchange carries it's own insur-
ance.
(c) The department of supplies
will undertake the collective pur-
chase and distribution of such sup
plies as the national wheat exchange
may deem it wise to handle, either
directly for the association or the
corporation, as such, or for the &C
count of the individual farmer-mem-
bers.
I'D The organization department
will have charge of the work of Sc
curing members in every state and
coordination between the corpora
tons and associations; coordination
between the various state associa-
tons and the exchange; the publica-
ton of weekly wheat paper" for
the members of the exchange and
advertising and publicity.
(e) The statistical department
will maintain agencies all over the
world, to secure the proper informa-
lIOu, Will Tie dlu VI the SAlSIluS
commercial agencies and otherwise.
CD The financing department will
have charge, in an advisory way, of
the auditing and systems used in the
state corporations and associations;
and, in direct way, of the financial
problems and methods of the eX-
change; of the matter of stabilizing
loans, collateral and commercial pa
per involved in the production,
warehousing, shipping and market
ing of wheat and wheat products.
(g) The sales department will
have complete charge of sales, both
domestic and foreign.
(h) The transportation depart
ment will perform the functions in
dicated by its name.
ID The legal department will
have charge of all legal problems,
y contracts and forms; supervise in
general the law work of state asso-
Citations and corporations; also ad-
vising on CONSIDERATIONS with other
associations for use of physical IA
cilities of corporations or marketing
4 facilities of associations or exchange;
observe and advise on legislative
problems, both state and national.
4 Cd The executive department will
coordinate and supervise the work
of all other departments.
n L) This general plan will enable
wheat to be scientifically marketed
by representatives of the farmers
1 producing the wheat
1t will enable the farmer to get
] the legitimate price for his product
4 and to control the commercial mar
keting, so that the consumer will not
have to pay the price put upon the
wheat by the old speculative manip-
ulation.
Cooperative associations, in their
general operations. have tended al
ways to standardize the product as
to quality and methods of handling
and to stabilize the prices for the
farmer, the manufacturer and the
consuming public.
This tendency is automatic, mas
much as a disproportionately high
price induces too many farmers to
so into the same line of production
and causes over-production, with the
resulting collapse of price. In adj
dition, high prices discourage con-
sumption and it is essential for a
Cooperative association to have it's
entire crop eaten annually and to
( depend upon small profits on volume
rather than wide margins.
(M) The problems here involved
are huge. The financing problem
alone will take the cooperation of