The Holt County sentinel., 1920-11-19
FARM BUREAU NOTES.
CIV {. Swamcr, County AGENT

sour Farm Bureau Federation. and are
called to the attention Of every farm
Bureau member and other farmers of
the county Reports from the STAGE
and American Farm Bureau Fedora
tions indicate that the Farm Bureaus
are accomplishing far more than they
ever hoped to accomplish in the short
time they have been organized. No
doubt some who join the Farm Bureau
think that the Farm Bureau ought to
correct the present method Of market
ing and money conditions. Before
passing judgment on the accomplish.
ment of the Farm Bureau Federation
one must remember that the Farm Blu
rcau Is less than two years old. where
as, the present marketing system,
namely, the Boards Of Trade. have
been IN existence seventy years. and
that II Is going to take considerable
time, energy and money tu correct the
evils that have been accommodating dur
ing these many ycars.--W. &. SwarnCr.
Committee Of Seventeen Meets
The Farmers Grain Marketing "Com.
mitcc NJ H. met in three days SOS.
sion IN Chicago last week. Finding,
the general committee. and men "
grcat".t prominence in grain market
ing operations appeared before the
committee. l.. 7. Gates. president of
the Chicago Board VI Trade. and julius
Barnc. former head Of The L. $. Grain
Marketing Corporation. Wcrc the
principlr pukcsmcn FOR thing a.
they arr
MI Gates made n strong plea for
the PR. marketing machinery. lie
pointed out that the present machinery
wa the product ~ 20 years experience
and predicted that to tear Il down
would hiring chaos.
Mt Barncs. in lO,OOO.wUid at.
drcSs, which summed up his convic.
ton growing out of life time spent
in the business, upheld unpualificdly
the present system Of marketing a,
being the most efficient W any he
Icould conceive. On ion,
Mr. Gamcs admitted that 10y pooling
product certain economics could prob
ably b. gained.
On the other side, T.. 4. Baync, Of
the Canadian Wheat Grower, Assuci.
alton, described the methods used in
that country IN famcr-markcting of
grain. and showed by actual figures
that the wheat grower, " Canada are
able Co. dn effective cooperative mar.
kcting ~ their products. lie felt tina,
The American farmer could succeed a.
had Tho Canadian farmer
Professor T.. g. Nour.c. 0f Iowa,
laid before the committee the report ol
the West Farm Bureau invcsiipa.
tors. who recently visited the Pacific
coast, The report u grouped under
four relation Of growers a.
marketing agencies. legal structure
commercial practices and benefits and
future uf the association.
Price fixing Of farm product, wa.
not favorably considered IN this report
but IN it, place the report recommend
ed the distribution of the crop a,
cqually rs possible to be sold NJ actual
supply and demand prices This meth.
oil, used by the California Fruit Grow
cls' Exchange, IL recommended a. the
most applicable Ia the marketing Of
grain.
\ number Of executive c,,ions were
held during the three days meeting al
which the reports Of cstigat0rs an.
pointed last month were made. Sever.
al basic principles are being worked
nut The next general meeting will
hr held in January. In the meanwhile
work If investigation win bc rnntin,
urd. At the cloSr ~ the meeting the
committee adopted resolution Ia
hing action 10 bear through govern.
mental agcnciu,, "a that cooperative
companies may hold memberships in
grain exchange.
Midwest Group Meet NJ Columbus.
Nine states were represented at the
munthly conference uf the Midwest
group of the American Farm Bureau
Federation nj Columbus, Ohio, last
} week.
Action was taken by the conference
opposing the government accepting
proposals by the packers to dispose OF
} their interest in the stock yards. II
was the general sense of the meeting
that the method of disposal Of tn,
, took yards was of interest not only
10 men who work on the markets, hui
also to the shippcGs who use the yards
. 4 telegram wa, sent to Senator
. Gray Silver, Washington representa-
tive Of the A. +. u. T., instructnl
: hun to "rcqueSt that the Department
. ul Justice dcsi,t from accepting AN,
!, Proposal until a live stock marketing
: committee representing all live stoc
. producers organizations has consider
!. cd them
: Discussion Of uniform organizatio
= Of all states and problems of publiclt
= occupied IA part of the session.
l.. J. Walker, chairman Of the Amer
= can wool pool committee, stated thu
3 on November 20, two subcommittee
I. would report to the main wool commit
: tee. The Legislative committee wi
, propose immediate legislation that wi
protect the entire wool growing indu
try. The marketing committee wi
present national wool marketin
plan.
\ The seriousness of the dairy stu;
ton was discussed at length by II
conference. No action was taken 1