Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-04-07
u. S. SHOULD AID
IN MARKETING OF
: FARMERS PRODUCE
Secretary of Agriculture Tells
Committee of Seventeen in
Chicago - Lauds Work of
Committee and Warns
Against |quack nostrums.

Chicago. Apr. 6.-The department
of agriculture should aid farmers in
marketing their crop, Secretary
Wallace declared today in an ad-
dress here before the farmers grain
marketing committee of II. There
is just as much reason" he said.
why the department should assist
the farmer in disposing of his crop
efficiently as that it should assist
him in increasing his production"
Study Of improved marketing
methods. as well as of conditions
the farmer should understand to
produce intelligently and adjust
his production to the needs of con-
sumption. the secretary said, are
proper functions Of the department"
'If there are men along the way
who are taking too much toll for the
service they render" he continued.
that should be made known.
Information OF world production
and consumption is Especially use
full and necessary" the secretary
said to aid farmers in deciding 'in
what quantities given commodities
should be produced in order that
there may be an adequate supply"
The farmers right to organize in
to organizatio cooperative or
otherwise, for the purpose of mar
keting crops, Mr.. Wallace said. cam
not be questioned, 80 long as they
observe the requirements OF our
laws"
"a denial of this right" he con-
tinued, would result in reducing
the free farmers of the United States
to condition comparable with the
down trodden peasants or poems Of
less enlightened countries and would
bring up on all the grief which those
countries are bearing"
The agriculture secretary said the
committees marketing plan appear
cd to have profited by practical ex-
perience OF the past and to have
avoided the weakness. which had
broken down many previous organi.
cations. 1t had tried. he said. to
improve the present marketing ma
chinery and not undertaken to wipe
it out.
Calling attention to the current
low prices for farm products. while
practically everything the farmer
buys is from SO to 100 percent above
pre-war normals," Secretary Wal
lace said, lit is not strange that
thousands of them should be will
ing and ready to adopt drastic mea-
sures to correct condition which
is so grossly unjust" He warned.
however, against "quack nostrums".
COMMITTEE PRESENTS PLAN
Chicago, April 6.-Complete ma
chinery by which farmers OF the
country may take over the market
ing OF their grain on Il cooperative
basis were laid before a national con-
ference of grain growers here today.
The plans were presented by the
committee of II which ;has been
working on Il national cooperative
grain handling system for the last
six months. and which called today's
ratification conference.
While the plans have been under
consideration the past few
days and were given their final
touches only last night they differ
in no essential detail from those pre-
viously worked out by the commit
tee, it's members said.
Pooling TO Re Optional
pooling OF grain did not
succeed in winning endorsement.
The plans calls for pooling at op-
lion.
Curbing Of speculation in grain is
set forth nthe final report OF the
as one Of the chief aims
Of tho proposed plans. Declaring
that there was u speculation in grain
hat almost staggers all human
the committee said
hat in its Judgment the "only ade-
luate remedy" was for the farmers
10 center extensively into the busi-
ness OF grain distribution, merchan-
Using grain as the products Of other
Industries are merchandised."
Establishment Of a corporation
known as the United States Grain
Growers Incorporated is provided
for by the laws of the corporation.