Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-11-18
WHEAT RECEIPTS ON
DECREASE; PREDICT
ADVANCE in PRICE

Exports of wheat to Belgium and
Germany are reported as increasing,
but are mostE Canadian grown
wheat, sold in United States.
An effort is q ted underway to
arrange GREG 'r larger exports to
Germany.
Farmer holding wheat in ali
the whey : wing states in this
country s. the smallness Of the
stocks Sle large terminals is re-
mark . t this season of the year.
A sign ant statement from the
Chicago market reports is thst
"every bushel of wheat of contract
grade in Chicago public elevators is
Canadian grain, except 1000 bus
hels according to officials figures
made public here today. The total
stock is only $4,000 bushels, and of
this amount $4,000 bushels in Can,
adian. The supply deceased 16S,-
900 bushels in the last week."
Wheat receipts at st. Louis and
Kansas City had dropped so percent
compared with a week ago. This is
an indication that the farmers are
learning how to act together to force
spectators to pay a fair price for
wheat. ~
Organizers for the National wheat
growers association, who are now IN
North Dakota organizing the farm
ers of this state to hold wheat for
better price say that "in the eight
states in the wheat belt approxf-
mately IS percent of the wheat IS
still In the hands Of the farmers"
"A. Slaughter, National organizer,
Waukita, Okla. stated yesterday at
Fargo:
''If there is so percent of the
wheat left in North Dakota, we be-
lieve the farmers should adopt the
holding policy. Some Of them will
have to sell part of their grain to
meet their expenses and pay their
notes at the bank, but at least 40
percent of the wheat should be held,
and il this system is carried out in
a businesslike manner, the wheat
held will bring the farmer close to
So bushel. We are asking that
price because it will pay the cost of
production and give us q legitimate
profit. 5.
No Money Made y
Farmers who sold their wheat
around $3.50 when they >threshed it
did the right thing for this year, but
they didn't make any money ON their
crop. #
''Our Organization is purely a
farm organization for the better
ment Of farm marketing conditions
and nothing else. We feel the need
Of = more businesslike management
of the farm and its products, but We
are not interested In the. banking
business or the milling business to
q point where we wish to control
them. Our sole object is to get fair
price for our wheat and we have nc
kick on how anyone else is conduct:
ling his business. II we organize
properly and have proper co-opera-
ton we will get the results"
Example Of Cooperation ~
| An example Of the efficiency ot
this form. of cooperation among the
producers of a commodity is shown
by message from the California
Associated Raisin Company received
by a jamestown wholesale dealer to-
day. The message states that all
offerings 'of Thompson's bulk raisias
are being Withdrawn and suggests
that wholesalers take immediate
steps to protect their customers on
all kinds of raisins. The California
sAssociatea Raisin Company controls
the raisin output in the same man.
ner In which the California Fruit
Growers association control the
fruit situation. 1t is this form .o1
cooperation rather than political
action which may prove to be the
solution Of the marketing problems
of the grain growers of the north
west.