Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-05-14


ing his children. He thought town
children should be given reasonable
work. Farm women patch and sew
and can, while town women buy
everything they wear or put on their
table Town people should all go
to work, said DR.. Waters.
Committee reports were adopted
rapidly after the committees began
to finish their work, and all but the
report of the committee on market
ing had been adopted when the con-
ference adjourned for the afternoon
The report of this committee was re-
ceived and adopted at a short even
ing session. Following are the com
imittee reports in full as adopted:
Marketing Cereal Products
Report of the committee on the
marketing of the cereal products of
the farm
Knowing that the consumers are
ing, and realizing that the farmers
can not feed and clothe the world
with the present cost of machinery
and labor, at as low a price DIS his
products now sell for, we suggest
that all unnecessary expense and du-
plication of service in the distribu-
ton system now in vogue be elm
mated, and to this end we suggest
the following remedies:
We recommend that all producers
be organized into local farmers CO.
operative associations, and that
membership therein be limited to &C
tual formers.
We recommend that the local
farmers cooperative associations be
merged into central or terminal mar
keting cooperative associations,
which shall become statewide or
cross state lines where rail and ter
minal facilities make it advisable to
do so, and that stock in said coop
erative central or terminal associa-
lions be limited to bona fide farm
ers and local cooperative associa-
tions. We suggest that each local
association take an amount of stock
in the central or terminal associa-
ton equivalent to at least five per
cent of its paid up capital stock.
We recommend that in the forma-
ton of all local and terminal CO.
operative associations they be or
ganized upon purely cooperative
basis.
We recommend that the district or
state terminal marketing associa-
tions be merged into a national mar
keting association, which shall also
be wholly a cooperative association.
We further recommend that all ter
minal marketing associations, both
state and national, shall constitute
channels through which, in time, all
the cereal products of the farmers of
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ultimate consumer. The directorate
of the national marketing associa-
ton should furnish all subordinate
terminal associations with statistics
relative to the worlds supply of, and
demand for, the cereal products of
the farm.
When the marketing of the cereal
crops of the farm through the ter
minal marketing associations is sue
cessfully accomplished, we recon-
mend that cooperative flour and GER
cal milling associations be organized
wherever feasible, so that the farm
ers' cereal products may reach the
ultimate consumer as nearly as may
be in finished form.
We further recommend that CO.
opera i've consumers associations be
established, and that they purchase
all the necessaries of life directly
from the producer.
We recommend that the chairman
of this convention appoint a COM
mittee, consisting of one member
from each Of the principal cereal
growing states, to put in operation
the recommendation contained in
these resolutions, said committee to
act in that capacity until their sue
cessors are elected by the co-opera-
tive associations of the states which
they represent.
We further recommend that this
committee be clothed with power to
call district or national convention
of the cereal growing states when
ever they consider it advisable to
do so. Immediately upon the APP
pointment of this committee, we rec
ommend that the committee meet