Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-06

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tive organizations in Nebraska today
was given as his opinion. There
are too many not properly financed
he explained. when you start a
cooperative. business, you farmers
must finance it just as business men
would. This is the way the COM
mittee of II is planning a national
system of marketing. grain which
will be controlled by the farmers and
on which the new committee of Is
will plan the handling OF live stock"
Mr.. Gustafson claimed that $685.
900 had been saved to farmers of
Nebraska by their own agency at
tire Omaha stock yards in one year.
and claimed that it was demonstrated
that the cost of marketing farm
products was generally too high.
Over so country cooperative ele-
waters already have joined ter
minal grain marketing plan for
Omaha, he stated.
Better Naxketing Plans.
H. D. Lutte, secretary of the Ne.
braska farm bureau, in discussing
plans for better marketing of farm
products, said he believed crop con-
tracts would be found necessary. Mr..
Lutte reported he had found that of
all the wreckage of cooperative mar
keting concerns in California, not a
one had failed which included the
crop contract feature. The pooling
of crops also. he continued. he be-
lieved would be found necessary. Co
operation in marketing of crops in
Nebraska as practiced at present is
really not cooperation. he said, as
growers outside the stockholders Of
L cooperative elevator. for instance,
are allowed to sell their grain to the
!arincr-owned concern.
Many cooperative elevators are
in difficulty now," Mr.. Lutte said.
In many cases it will be found that
growers who did not belong to the
cooperative association got to mar
ket first with their grain and sold it
at the high price prevailing at the
opening of the season. Then came
the car shortage and the drop in
price. The cooperative elevator was
forced to take a big loss on grain
sold to it by man outside the or
ganization. He was the one who
got the benefit"
Must Have Storage.
A system of farm storage to do
away with sending products long dis,
tances to market with ofttimes the
necessity of shipping them back for
local consumption was pointed out
by the speaker. Some such storage
on the farm will be necessary, he
said, if products. are to be marketed
in an orderly way and avoid glutting
the mahket at certain seasons. Meth
DDS of financing the products thus
held must be worked out, he added.
Farmers now are like a lot of
barrel slaves without any hoops"
asserted Mr.. Lite. Corporation.
the hoops, are needed now"
He briefly outlined the main points
of the farm bureau organization.
mentioning the necessity of enfor-
chile crop contracts, pooling of crops
by grades for marketing to best ad-
vantage, crop storage on the farm
and regulation of the flow of farm
products to market, keeping II uni
form in order to avoid Cutting the
market at times. Cooperative local
elevators, and through them CO.
operative terminal elevators, CO.
operative warehouse companies. and
the keeping of farm crops under
control of the PRODUCERS. he de-
clared. to be the eH{ live way of
eliminating the speculative middle
man. Expert marketing and adver-
tising agencies also will be necessary,
he said
Oppose Emergency Act.
Without a word of debate, the
crop growers by large majority.
voted to table motion TO endorse
the proposal OF Representative Fos-
ter Of Omaha for an emergency act
for farmer relief. It developed aft
erward that the farmers are tired Of
paying interest on bonds, so they
quickly voted not to endorse bill
authorizing counties to issue bonds
for raising money to be loaned farm-
crs from one to five years at rea-
sonable interest, through banks.
President Gustafson of the Farm
ers' union gave his definition Of
cooperation during q discussion tina;
closed the session. He said cooper
alton is "two or more persons do
irg the same thing il, the same way
at the same time for the same put-
posc."
Theories Of the benefits Of crop
rotation were brought into question
by l.. L. Zook OF North Platte, who
discussed results on the experiment
al farm in western Nebraska. He
found that corn and winter wheat
we're the best joint crops for that
rart of the state. because conditions
that kill one will allow the other
to survive. Oats were found not
to be reliable and barley preferable
to spring wheat.
Favors Continuous Crop.
Although the highest yields fol-
lowed summer faliow, he claimed
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