The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-24

plains Details Of OrganizatiOn-Says
Method Assures Husbandmen Of Fair
Prices for Products.
CHICAGO. March 24-Pooling of
farmers grain either on a national or
local scale, constitutes the outstandingi
feature of the national cooperating
marketing plan proposed by the Commit
tee of Seventeen, Chairman c. II. Gus
tafson said here yesterday, explaining it's
details.
The committee. whose full name is the
Farmers Grain Marketing Committee of
Seventeen, is holding state meetings this
month preparatory to Il ratification con-
ference in Chicago April 6. The com
mittee represents cooperative organlza-
tiOns of farmers interested in grain mar
keting. prominent among them the Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation. As an
alternative TO the pooling plans, farmers
may sell direct.
The national pooling plan calls for
pooling grain with a central agency, sell
ing BY grade and then distributing the
profits equally to each contributor to the
pool MIR Gustafson said. This would
operate to give each producer the aver
age price for grains of certain grade,
which he contributed to the pool 1t
would insure the producer the average
price for the year. Pooling products in
this manner has reached its highest de-
velopment among the California cooper
ative organizations.
Products so pooled pass out of the
control of the individual producer and
the grain will be sold by the directors of
the pool at the time that they deem
most oppOrtune
provision is also made for a local
pool by members of a single community.
In both local and national pools, the con-
trcl is centralized and the selling price
averaged.
The direct sale plan allows farmers
who desire to bring their grain to the
cooperative elevators and sell on the cur
rent market quotation, as Is done at the
present time at privately owned eleya-
tors. Further, they can avail themselves
of the ware1 housing facilities of the CO.
operative elevators and terminals and
net sell until weeks. or months later
Producers who dispose of their grain in
this manner share equally in the profits
of the warehOusing facilities, export cor
pOTatiOn and other national cooperative
departments on the basis of the number
of bushels which they deliver to the ell
evat0rS.
For those farmers who do not wish
TO enter a pool or to sell direct. there is
another avenue of reaching the markets. |
One farmer or several farmers who have
sufficient grain to make up one or more
carloads. may cOnSign grain by the car
load through the cooperative elevator to
cooperative marketing agencies to be To-
Gated at the different terminal mar
ketS. such as Chicago and Minneapolis. |
The grain would then be sold at market
price upon arrival BY handling his
grain in this manner, the farmer will
pay only the actual overhead cost of
marketing it.
altogether, we believe the new plan
is sufficiently broad to allow the pro-
Queer to use his own Judgment and mar
kct his products in the way that 'he con-
SIdcFS best, while. at the same time, he
has the benefit Of a complete national |
marketing machine that has no purpose
or excuse for existence but TO protect his |
interests and return q larger per cent
Of the market value to him. without in |
friuging upon the rights of his consumer
customers of these three alternatives |
the method of marketing which proves
most satisfactory and more nearly re- |
turns a price that viii make farming |
profitable, viii be the marketing method |
that will develop and increase in popu- |
laritv.
This plan is, in fact, we believe. but
the next orderly step in the cooperation |
that the farmers have already under |
taken. Through cooperative elevators |
they arc handling today a great deal of |
the grain they produce. but their CO. !
operative effort stops at the railroad
track With more than G.00O of these
cooperative elevators in operation the |
foundation is already laid for u new ma |
tI0Qal marketing agency