Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-06-18

contract winch the farmers down
there are signing. fillmore talked
cooperation and organization. From
their addresses, from literature that
is being circulated, and from CONVEX
sations With several of the men who
are working 10 get the plan over l
gained a fair working knowledge of
iast what the idea is, and what is
hoped for it.
This is the plan: The wheat grow
ing section in which the organiza-
! tions are being formed produces
/ 100000 bushels of wheat in a
normal year The total farm value
of the 1919 crop, basis December !,
was estimated by the federal gov
ierument at S167,000,0O0. The mar
keting of this crop is the biggest sim
gle line Of commercial business in
the Pacific Northwest. In each Of
the states Of idaho, Washington and
Oregon, a non-capital. non profit as
ISOLATION of wheat growers will be or
gani2ed under the state law Three
associations are necessary because
the state boundaries divide a big dis
trict which, from the agricultural
viewpoint, is an industrial unit The
associations will work in close coop
Grafton in the marketing of wheat.
The completion of the organization
contingent upon getting the wheat
growing farmers in the three states
to sign contracts to deliver their
wheat to the associations in suffici-
ent numbers to guarantee a volume
of 100000 bushels annually. The
date set for reaching this objective
is July l.
We will take the Washington asso-
citation as an example, 1t is known
as the Washington Wheat Growers
association. Membership is open to
any wheat grower, the entrance fee
is $40, and each member has one
vote. The association will be con-
trolled by board of 1 directors, IA
elected by counties according to the
amount of wheat marketed through
the association, their election to be
ratified at the annual meeting of the
association at Spokane The other,
who has full directors powers, will
be appointed by the dean of the state
agricultural college to represent tho
general interests of the public.
A contract between the grower
and the association is signed. It is a
binding one. 1t binds the association
to buy and the grower to sell and de-
liver to the association all of the
wheat marketed by the grower for
six years. The growers retain, of
course, all the wheat necessary for
seed and feed. Special arrangements
will be made regarding the sale of
wheat of special quality for seed pur-
poses. The growers surrender all
right to sell their wheat, this being
looked upon as one of the basic prin-
ciples of producers cooperation.
The selling will be done for them by
experts engaged by the association.
Special facilities will be provided for
obtaining information on worlds
wheat marketing conditions to enable
the experts to merchandise the grain
to the best possible advantage. Ii is
explained that the big wheat inter
ests all have such sources of informa-
ton. That is one of the ways they
have of manipulating the wheat mar
ket. Each grower, even the most in
experienced, will have the advantage
OF competent craftsmanship in the
marketing of his wheat.
You are primarily producers of
wheat, say the organizers. You
are at it every working day of the
year but one, and you know, or ought
10 KNOW, ABOUT all there is to know
regarding the growing of wheat. For
one day of the year you are seller
OF wheat. How can you expect to be
as expert at selling wheat as a man
who is at it every working day of the
year? That is his business. When
you do business with him he has
everything in his favor. He knows
the commercial conditions, he knows
how to talk, how to convince men
that black is gray; he knows how to
handle you and you don't know how
to handle him. Your business is to
hire a specialist, to hire someone
who knows the business from the
bottom up. The Armour Grain com
pany in Chicago is the greatest grain
company in the United States. 1t