The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1920-09-09
FARM BUREAU
IS IMPORTANT
Local Organization Has SIS Members
and is Outranked By Only
One County
COMPOSED OF REAL FARMERS
National Body Making Great Headway
In Marketing

members and is outranked only by
Stutsman, which js about twice the
size Of this. Other counties in this
part Of the state rank as follows:
Barnes, 110; Pembina, 500; Ramsey,
400; Grand Forks, 140; Cass, $50.
Some time next year we will have
state farm bureau. This will en-
able US to join the national organiza-
tion, which is the biggest and best
body Of its kind ever conceived. The
national organization is doing some
big things in the way Of marketing,
and this progress is made possible
simply because it is composed Of real
dirt farmers and they know what the
bona fide farmers want. We believe
in the farm bureau, and you will, too,
when you know more about it.
At a recent conference Of the ma
tional bureau President Howard was
instructed to appoint committee Of
II to formulate plans for marketing
grain through one central agency in
the United States. The resolution is
as follows:
Resolved, that we recommend that
the chairman Of this convention ap-
point permanent committee not to
exceed seventeen members, represent
ing the various organizations inter-
ested, and with the consent and ap-
proval of such organizations, to con-
slider, formulate and submit hereafter
for consideration, definite plan Of
organization whereby all organizations
Of grain producers can conduct coop
erative grain marketing through one
or more central organizations or grain
exchanges, or such other solution Of
the cooperative marketing problem
as may be approved by such commit
tee, and that each organization or in
terest represented shall bear the ex-
penses Of it's own delegate or COM
mittee members. That when this COM
mittee is ready to report, copies Of
this report shall be sent to each organ
ization, and the chairman Of the Amer
lean Farm Bureau federation shall
call q conference of accredited dele
gates of such organizations with pow
er to act, to whom such plan shall be
submitted for adoption or rejection"
It is more than likely that DIR. Ladd
will be one Of the members of this
committee. At the county agents.
conference he expressed himself as
being highly in favor Of this move
ment and that if 81 per cent of the
wheat growers in America could be
enrolled and some method of financ-
ing such an undertaking could be
evolved it would be possible to regu-
late the price Of wheat through tho
medium Of the producer rather than
the middlemen, as is claimed is ne
cessary at present. Be that as at
may, it is the growers privilege to
say how much it cost to produce the
grain. Wheat should have more or
less fixed price and the grain should
go to the mills as needed to avoid
glutting of markets and slumping of
prices. Through definite system Of
financing, growers would be enabled
to draw 80 or 80 per cent of the value
of their product by presenting their
warehouse receipts as collateral. But
in order to get results this work must
be undertaken by majority of the
wheat growers in the United States
and necessary legislation enacted. The
crop must be controlled through one
central agency. Marketing of wheat
is one thing with it's attendant prob
lens and it can be solved only by the
wheat growers. Marketing of pota-
toes is entirely different. While po-
tatoes are perishable product they
are finished product ready for con-
sumption. The marketing of each
commodity requires experts who have
knowledge of the business. In the
marketing Of potatoes and also wool
some very noteworthy results have al
ready been achieved. What can be
done where the entire crop is control
led, as in California, was told by
Jewish attorney, Aaron Sapiro:
"Prior to 1916 spectators handled
100 per cent of prune, raisin and fruit
crops generally. Now the growers
have SO per cent Of the raisin crop
tied up; 83 per cent of the berry crop.
The California Fruit Growers ex-
change controls the orange and lemon
markets Of the United States. The
States Poultry and Producers asso-
citation last year handled 10000, 900
dozens Of eggs. Prune growers fixed
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