The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-27

take their own crops, sell them direct
to the millers, export them directly.
BY this method they will get better
prices themselves and will also cut
the cost of grain to the consumers.
The board of trade will hold some
customers for perhaps year. Then
these customers will see what the CO.
operative farmers are doing and will
join the association. The first thing
that the board of trade knows, it is
out of business"
Each state in the big association
will have one director in the organi-
zation. Mr.. Sapiro states, with an
additional director for each five mil
| lion bushels marketed from that
state the public will have five rep
resentatives in the organization. One
will be appointed by the federal re-
serve board, one by the federal trade
commission and three by the depart
ment of agriculture.
eve will build up an immense or
ganization with separate depart
ments to handle each phase of the
business" declared Mr.. Sapiro. eve
will have domestic and foreign
boards. We will have a legal de
partment, grain inspecting depart
ment, a grading department, trans
portation and warehousing depart
ment and the association, in order
to be thoroly efficient will have to
maintain its own trade representa-
tives in the big grain centers Of the
world. 1t will have man in Canada
in India in Egypt, two in Russia.
one in Germany, probably one in
China. These agents will keep the
association constantly informed as to
market conditions in their own parts
of the globe. In that way the farm
ers will know just what to do with
their crops.
"The entire association will be
based on the American cooperation
and not the English Rochdale plan.
We must organize by commodity and
not by locality. There must be no
capital stock, because stock is not
necessary.
''The grain of all the farmers will
be pooled by grade and variety, and
all growers will share equally in the
proceeds. For instance, when all the
No. Northern spring wheat is sold
and the expenses paid, each farmer
who furnished wheat of that grade
will be paid his share of the pro-
ceeds. The price per bushel will be
exactly the same to each grower.
1.-THE association will have it's own
elevators for storing the crops.
These elevators will be owned by
separate corporation and will have
both common and preferred stock.
The common stock will be held by
the marketing association so as to
give it voting power in the elevator
company. The preferred stock will
have no voting power and can be sold
to anyone.
''The plan is one that has been
tried and is successful, Fourteen
big associations in California and
other western states are working un-
der this plan. The prune growers,
the rice growers, the apple growers,
the cotton growers, all have formed
associations of their own. No single
state is represented, but all the grow
ers Of certain commodity. That is
real cooperation"
Word has been received by Mr..
Sapiro that the committee of seven
teen has been appointed to draft the
plans for the forming of the big CO.
operative association, and this he be-
lieyes is the first step in the eman-
cipation Of the farmers from the rule
Of the board Of trade. The elimina-
ton of the spectators, he states,
will come in 1923.