The Glasgow courier., 1921-01-21

sents his time and so many bushels OF
wheat and says,
"Here is my time. Give me cost plus
1Oas."
We see at once the impossibility of
| the question of satisfactory cost of
production plus 1000.
DR.. Hibbard went through the price
setting of milk in Chicago and results
showed that as price increased the con-
sumers cut down the use of milk. In
so much for milk and no more. DR.,
Hubbard was great advocate of local
cooperative organization such as
creameries, cheese factories, livestock
shipping associations, farmers eleva-
tors and the like, and from these de-
velop larger cooperative associations,
but the small unit at home must neces-
sarily be the starting unit if the as
sociation is to be a success.
DR.. Hibbard expressed himself as
doubtful about wheat pools due to the
fact that wheat is world wide product
and we have no corner on it in the U.
S. and farmers must sell on a world
market over which we have no control.
DR.. Hibbard went into the Canadian
marketing plan; which is considered
about perfect in detail, and gave
the result of the Canadians findings
and briefly they are: that the Board of
Trade is not a place of robbing and
stealing but instead an efficient busi-
ness organization and necessity for
the speedy marketing of wheat. The
Canadians found that they could not
handle their wheat any cheaper nor
any more efficiently themselves than
could the Board of Trade; therefore,
they put man on the Board of Trade
and if it was not for the fact that he
got them foreign orders it would not
even pay to keep man on the Board
of Trade but sell it direct through the
Board of Trade, as the commission of
11a cents was only very slightly over
what it cost them to actually operate
their own business. That the place
where the Canadian plan did make
from to II cents per bushel was at
their local elevators and he strongly
advised the farmers to own and oper-
ate their own local elevators and until
they got well organized not to connect
up with anv state or national organiZa-
tion but sell direct on the open market.
The Montana Wool Growers Associ-
alton is going to unite with the State
Federation of Farm Bureaus. The
Montana Wool Growers have already
leased a woolen mill and are manufac-
turing cloth from the wool grown in
Montana and any one can now pur-
chase an all virgin wool suit, no shod-
dy. made from Montana wool and by
a Montana owned ard operated mill,
for $3.50. County Agent Stebbins pur-
chased one of these suits and it would
seem to be the thing for Montana men
to wear these suits and for women to
purchase the yardage and have their
suits tailored from all virgin wool
cloth made from Montana wool. The
yardage will cost about SO to $3.50 per
ward and this gives the wool growers
from as to so cents a pound for his
WOOL
The Farm Bureaus of the state are
working with the wool growers to
make this-project a success, and it will
be if the Montana people will insist on
wearing clothing made from Montana
wool. The cloths and also the suits
will all be branded, inorder to protect
our state industry.
1t is small thing to do but we can
save our sheep industry, one of the
largest industries of the state, by do
ing this little act.