The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-06
Machinery for Cooperative
Marketing Is Ready.
Scheme Now Before Grain
Growers at Chicago Pariey.
PRODUCERS GIVEN CHOICE
Can Sell on Commission or May
Form Local Pools.
Contract for Entire Crop for
Five Years Required.

Chicago, April 6.-Complete ma
chinery by which farmers os the coun-
try may take over the marketing OF
their grain on a cooperative basis
was laid before a national conferences
of grain growers here today by the
committee of seventeen.
The plans were given their final
touches last night. They differ in no
essential detail from those previous
ly worked out by the committee. its
members stated.
Pressure from several quarters for
compulsory pooling of grain did no.
succeed in winning endorsement. The
! plan calls for pooling at option.
| Establishment of corporation
known as the United States Gra!a
Growers, Inc, is provided.
Farmers signing contracts must sell
their grain exclusively to the agencies
for five years renewable thereafter
from year to year
| Farmer Has Two Options.
| There are two types of contracts A
| farmer may adopt the regular sales
method now followed, thru which he
sells to the elevator and the elevators
| rect sales or sales on consignment.
The second method provided for is
pooling. Farmers of a community
may adopt this scheme and pool, or
farmers of two or more communities
may join a pool of their grain
Other features of the plan require
/ that all members of the United States
Grain Growers. Inc, must be bonafide
/ growers of grain. The membership
fee is set at $40, with no assessments
a inr mr. I'D De
profit, non-stocks company with no
dividends. Expenses after the men-
bership fee is paid are to be arrived
at by deductions from the sale of
grain.
Big Extensions Planned.
If farmers grain is sold on a COM
mission basis soley, the maximum de-
!; duction permitted is one per cent OF
the value of the grain corresponding
to present commission charges on ex-
changes, it is stated by members of
!, committee of seventeen.
Funds so acquired are to be used to
buy warehouses. establish crop news
gathering agencies in various coun-
tries and other facilities needed.
Provision is also made for establish
ment of subsidiary corporations in
Guiding an export corporation, ware
house corporation, a corporation to
purchase seats on exchanges and a
finance corporation.
Government Must Help.
The department of a gri cul u Q
should lend the same aid to farmers
in marketing their crops as it does in
their production, Secretary Wallace
declared today in an address here be-
fore the farmers grain marketing
committee of seventeen.
There is just as much reason" he
said, "why the department should as
sist the farmer in developing methods
| of marketing his crops efficiently as
that it should assist him in increasing
his production"
study of improved marketing meth
DDS. as we'll as of conditions the
) farmer should understand to produce
| intelligently and adjust his produce
ton to the needs of consumption" the.
secretary said, ARE proper functions
of the department." The department
should turn on the light" he contin-
|. ued. IF there are points along the
way at which there is unnecessary
If there are nen along the way who
; are taking too nue. toll for the serv-
! ice they render, that also should be
made known.
"A plentiful supply of food at
prices which are just to both producer
= and consumer is vital to our national
welfare and it is a proper function
to insure it. Information of world
production and consumption is "es-
pecially useful and necessary" the
secretary declared, TO aid farmers in
deciding '1n what quantity given COM
! modities should be produced in order
that there may be an adequate sup
ply"
said. that If prices are to be satisfac-
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