The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-03-31
NOTES OF THE
FARM BUREAU
Four Different Methods of Marketing
Grain Embodied in Report of
Committee of Seventeen

Grain Embodied in Report of
Committee of Seventeen
FARM BUREAU ADOPTS EMBLEM
Van Meter Poultry Club Organized
Last Saturday
Farmers will have four different
methods by which they can market
their grain under the plan announced
by the Committee Of Seventeen, which
was discussed by the executive
committees of the various farm or
carnations of North Dakota at al
meeting held in Fargo on March
%. At this meeting six delegates
were elected to represent the state
at a national meeting to be held at
Chicago April 6 at which time the
convention will approve, reject or
modify the plan which has, been an
hounced.
: All grain growers will be eligible
to membership in the national sales
agency and when joining will agree
to market their grain solely through
that agency for a period Of five years.
However, the grain will be handled
through local farmers cooperative
elevator or through a local grain
growers association which will con-
tract with local elevator for storage
and ahipping facilities.
Tho farmers will contract with the
local elevator or grain growers asso-
citation to sell their grain outright or
to pool it. Under the first alterna-
tive. the farmer may deliver his grain
to the cooperative elevator and i'm
mediately receive payment for it.
Then the local elevator must ship it
to the national sales agency, which
win sell the shipment and reimburse
the local elevator. The farmer may
also deliver his grain to the local ele-
vator and direct that it be shipped to
the national sales agency, which will
sell It upon arrival and will then pay
the farmer.
Two plans for pooling may be fol-
lowed. If large percentage (the fig
ure has not yet been set) Of the mem
bers Of the local organization vote to
pool their grain, the grain will be
pooled and delivered to the local ele-
vator. The local ofganizattion viii
then sell the pool ut whatever time
the members deem best, to be handled
through the national sales agency.
The fourth plan involves the nation
al pool, which will be composed Of the
pools from the local units, and in this
case the national sales agency, gov
erned by a board Of directors chosen
by the farmer members, will have en-
tire charge of the disposition Of the
pool.
Under the pooling plans, the farm
er will be advanced a portion of his
money, probably about Is per cent,
when he first delivers the grain to the
local elevator. Then the national sales
agency will dispose of the grain from
month to month as it is needed by
millers or foreign countries and will
make two or three payments to the
farmers of from five to ten per cent
and finally when the cost of market
ing has been calculated and pro-rated
and all of the grain has been disposed
of, a check will be sent to the farmer
for the balance due him. Funds to
advance the farmer his first payment
will be secured through a finance cor
poration which will be established by
the national sales agency.
The Van Meter Poultry club held
its organization meeting at the Lin
nell school house last Saturday. This
club consists of eleven wide-awake
members under the leadership of Miss
Mildred Pierce. The following officers
were elected: President, Paul Ma
COON; vice president, Florence Lin
nell; secretary-treasurer, Mary Wal
lace. A social committee consisting
of Forrest Whipple and Florence Lin
nell, and a program committee con-
sisting of Roy and Grace Pierce, were
appointed. We are looking forward
to some excellent work from this
club.
The labor situation was discussed
at q recent Farm Bureau conference
at Grand Forks. From figures given
by Mrs. Bowe, in charge Of the State
Federal Free Employment agency, it
was decided that where men send in
applications for farm hands with the
request that they be sent them at the
"going wage" such laborers should
be told that this wage is $500 per
month. According to Mrs. Bowe's
figures, farmers are paying $500 to
$4,000 per month for general farm
work, hence the average Of $500 per
month.
An official Farm Bureau sign and
also an official Farm Bureau button
have been adopted. Any Farm Blu.
reau member who is interested in
placing q Farm Bureau sign on his
gate post or displaying Farm Blu.
reau badge IN his button hole should
communicate with the secretary Of hid
State Farm Bureau federation, II. B
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