Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-20
KNOWN WRITER
TL|NES PLANS Of
5. GRAIN GROWERS
NTs AND PURPOSES OF DIS.
TED MOVEMENT SET FORTH
LIST OF QUESTIONS AND
SWERs RECEIVED TODAY.

of the maze of aspersions cast
at the United States Grain Grow.
Inc, and the Chicago Board of
e, as a result of each organiza.
declaring war on the other the
Trader.Journal today Is able, for
frst time, to give something Of
value TO the farmer on the in
and purposes of the movement
lg farming communities now
oping into one of the biggest is.
OF the day.
list of questions and answers,
imably coming out of the county
advisors office, was received with
signature at this Office today.
the Free Trader-Journal's read.
may ascertain for themselves
the U. S. G.. G.. claims for itself,
article is printed in full;
What are the chief objects of
entire movement?
To permit the farmer to own
control the agencies for market
his own grain, and TO cause a
even. orderly shipment of grain
larket. thereby eliminating mid
Zen and spectators, so far as pos.
and preventing gluts in the
Set. and the violent fluctuations
marketing prices existing today.
How will the new marketing
stabilize prices?
Ii Will not do so all at once. In
It will very largely wipe out
and weekly fluctuations, and
mizc monthly and yearly fluctua-
so that they will be slow and
ual, accurately rejecting world
litions of supply and demand
he most important means Of stabil-
the price of cash grain is to
ilize the movement. If cash buy
want a million bushels of grain
and million bushels is offered
sale the price will not change.
million and a quarter bushels is
| red the bottom goes out of the
| et.
| der the proposed plan, the grain
|vers in any community may de-
to pool their grain with that OF
| r neighbors in the same commun-
Advances which will be made on
pooled grain will relieve the fin
| al pressure which often forces
hers to sell on an unfavorable
| ket. The time of selling the
| n will be determined by the direc-
or manager Of the local elevator
pany. 1t is logical to suppose that
/, will distribute it more evenly
h two hundred farmers acting in
|dually could do. They will not
/ the grain all to market at once,
they will avoid selling on a glut-
market. Thus they will help to
bilize the movement and conse'
lntly the price.
hey will have important help from
statistical department Of the sales
location. This department will
her facts about supply and demand
In every source and from all over
world. It's trained experts will
Erpret these facts. This informa'
| will be furnished to each local
Eator company by mail and wire.
will be accurate, unbiased informa-
h, not colored in the interest OF the
|culator.
s final step, the committees
b provides for larger pools when
|r the grain growers in any terri
" want them. The disposition of
Sc pools will be in the hands of the
trail sales association. The grain
he routed to the best markets, and
ered only as rapidly as the market
/ take it without depressing prices
July.
The plan is an elastic one. 1t does
start in revolutionary way; in
I, 1t will start operating with little
.nge from present methods. 1t pro-
es a gradually increasing control
,r distribution and for the collec-
n of information on which that con
must be based. 1t will have a
bilizing influence on prices from
start, and that influence will in
ase rapidly until most OF the hue
.tion has been eliminated.
}. How will the new plan elimin.
speculation in grain if the sales
ISOLATION operates on the present
lin exchanges?
\. One great advantage of the
mmittee's plan is that it can put
q operation almost at once, without
ting to get any large percentage
the grain of the country under con
ct. The easiest way to start will
lnges, where cash buyers are in the
to go into the present grain ex-
bit of coming, and meet them there.
q farmers sales association will at
It have no particular influence over
rules and conduct of these mar
Is. If farmers back their organiza-
n. however it will not be long be-
@ the farmers association will
idle a large enough volume of
lin to become a dominating factor
the market. AS soon as a large
,ugh volume of grain is going
ough the farmers association, the
Yards of purely speculative trading
i be so greatly increased that there