The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-28
FARMERS outline
GRAIN CONTRACTS
Are Preparing Two Drafts
for Cooperative Sale
of Cereal
LAWYERS DRAWING
BOTH DOCUMENTS

One Deals With Grower and Local EIe-
VatOr-Other Binds the National Mar
keting Agency and the Home Elevator
Management
CHICAGO, March 28.-Two contracts
are provided for in the national plan for
marketing grain comparatively proposed
BY the Farmers Grain Marketing COM
mittee of Seventeen, according to a
statement BysC II Gustafson, chairman
Of the committee, made public here to-
day. .. -s.,
The contract is expected TO run
about five years" said Mr. Gustafson's
statement but the exact period will not
be determined until the conference in
Chicago. April &, at which ratification
Of the plan will be taken up by delegates
from the grain growing states of the
nation.
One contract will be made between
the grain grower and his local cooper
alive elevator and another contract will
be made between the local cooperative
elevator and the national grain market
ing agency. These contract forms are
now being drawn up by competent legal
assistance under the supervision of
Clifford Ihorne. of Chicago, an attorney
and member OF the committee. The gen
eral principles OF the contract forms.
however, have been decided and it only
remains to put them in legal shane.
The contract made by the grower
with his local cooperative elevator will
provide for the exclusive delivery of all
surplus grain not needed for seed and
feed purposes. The contract made by
the local cooperate elevator with the
nationals selling agency viii, III turn,
provide for the exclusive sale. OF the
grower members grain through the sales
facilities of the national selling agency.
Choice Not Limited.
These contractual relations viii not
infringe upon the privilege OF choice
which the individual farmer has of de-
Gliding which method of marketing he
may wish to employ, that l.. cOHsign-
ment, direct sale to cooperative eleya-
tors. or pool. The growers at any local
station viii always have the alteTna-
tive OF contracting to pool their grain
locally and selling as one unit through
the national sales agency. In the same
way, the contract viii contain prOVi-
siuus authorizing two or more local
companies to pool their grain, when APP
proved by at least - per cent of the
members OF each company.
Farmers Cooperative elevators that
are now operating on the patronage, di-
yidend basis will need to make only mi
nor changes in order to contract with
the national selling organization. Where
Ia local cooperative elevator, which
meets the requirements of the contract,
does not exist, the new marketing plan
contemplates that the growers will form
n local cooperative organization and
eli her enter into a separate contract of
tlAr own with local elevator to store
ana load their grain or make arrange
mcnts TO buy. build or lease an elevator.
"Thc contract running between the To-
cal elevator and the national agency,
provides that If the local elevator IS not
truly cooperative, it may be given a
reasonable period of time to make such
necessary changes in its form of organi-
zatiou as win meet the requirements
for doing business through the national
selling organization