East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-03-23
OUTSTANDING FEATURES
OF COOPERATING PLAN
is POOLING OF GRAIN.
Committee is Holding State
Meeting Preparatory to
Ratification Conference.

CHICAGO. March GA. P)-
Pooling of farmers grain, either on a
national or local scale. constitutes the
outstanding feature of the national
cooperating marketing plan proposed
by the committee of seventeen, Chair
man C. H. Gustafson said here today.
explaining its details.
The committee, whose full name is
the Farmers Grain Marketing Com
meetings this month preparatory to a
ratification conference in Chicago
April 6. The committee represents
cooperative organizations Of farmers
interested in grain marketing, promi-
nent among them the American Farm
Bureau Federation.
As an alternate to the pooling plans,
farmers may sell direct.
The national pooling plan calls for
pooling grain with a central agency.
selling BY grade and then distributing
the profits equally to each contributor
to the pool Mr.. Gustafson said.
This would operate to give each pro-
ducer the average price for grains of
certain grade which he contributed
to the pool. 1t would insure the pro-
ducer the average price for the year.
Pooling products in this manner has
reached its highest development am
ong the California cooperative or
ganizations.
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 q local
pool by members of single commu-
nifty. In both local and national pools
the control is centralized and the SELL
ing price averaged.
The direct sale plan allows farm
ers who so desire to bring their grain
to the cooperative elevators and sell
on the current market quotaticsl as Is
done at the present time at privately
owned elevaors. Further, they can
avail themselves of the warehousing
facilities of the cooperative elevators
and terminals and not sell until weeks
or months later. Producers who dis
pose OF their grain in this manner
share equally in the profits Of the
warehousing facilities. Export corr
poration and other national coopera-
tive departments on the basis of the
number of bushels which they deliver
to the elevators.
For those farmers who do not wish
to enter pool or to sell direct there !
re ~.
markets. One farmer or several far
mers who have sufficient grain 10 |
make up one or more carloads. may
eonslgn grain by the carload through /
The cooperative elevator to cooperative
agencies to be located at
he different terminal markets such
as Chicago and Minneapolis. The
grain would then be sold at market ,
1r:ce upon arrival. BY handling his
srain In this manner the farmer will
'ay only the actual overhead cost Of
marketing 1t.
Altogether. we believe the new
'lan is sufficiently broad to allow the
'roducer to use his own Judgment and
market his products in the way that
le considers best. while, at the same
Ime, he has the benefit of complete :
ational marketing machine that has
o purpose or excuse for existence but
protect his interests and return :
trger per cent of the market value toll
I'm without infringing upon the rights
his consumer customers On these {
lree alternatives. the method OF {
larketing which proves a most sat {