The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-04
|HAYGROWERS
NOW ORGANIZED
New Cooperative Association Is
Formed at Harlem Meeting
Held Last Saturday.
FOLLOW WASHINGTON PLAN
Fred Helstrem of HinsdaIe Represents
the Glasgow Hinsdale District on
the Board of Directors. Board
in Session Yesterday.


projects met at Harlem on January 20
and organized hay growers associa-
ton which will take in the region of
the Milk river project and adjacent
projects. The constitution and bylaws
were adopted and steps taken to have
the organization Incorporated.
This movement was first started by
q number of the Harlem hay growers
who felt the need of selling organi-
Zation, at meeting held in Harlem
early in the fall. A committee was
selected to report at a later date. The
committee consisted of H. C. Ander-
son, chairman, DR. f. r. Runey and
Phil F. Buckley of Harlem Consider
able correspondence was carried on by
the committee and also by the Blaine
county Farm Bureau office, but it
seemed that no hay growers organi-
zations could be located which had a
definite set of bylaws and constitu-
ton. The committee got in touch with
George f. Stratton, Project Manager
of the U. S. Reclamation Service at
Malta, and got his assistance in plan
ming the organization Mr.. Stratton,
through the project leader in Yakima
Valley in Washington secured copy
of a constitution and bylaws of the
Washington hay growers association.
Previous to that time the committee
had drawn up constitution and by
laws modelled after the Milk River Val
ley Seed Growers Association.
A meeting was called for December
Goth, but the serious health conditions
in the vicinity of Harlem made it
necessary to postpone this meeting. A
meeting was finally arranged for Sat-
urday. January 29th, and the haygrow-
ers under the Milk river project were
notified by Mr.. Stratton and by the
Farm Bureau office at Chinook.
A number of haygrowers from Glas-
gov. Dodson, Saco and Hinsdale at
tended the meeting and some from Chi
nook, the rest from the vicinity of Har-
lem. Mr.. Stratton explained the dis
trict system of organizing which is in
use by the Washington hay growers
association, and made suggestions as to
the districts which might be used if
this method was adopted by the Milk
River hay growers. Mr.. Sherman of
the Reclamation-servi at Malta, who
formerly was located in Yakima valley
in Washington, discussed the fruit
growers organizations of Washington,
emphasizing particularly the very
strict grades established by these or
ganizations and their method of in
spection.
The constitution and bylaws were
read section by section, parts were tax
en- from the Washington hay growers
constitution and substituted for sec
tlons in the constitution drawn up by
the committeeman and the Washington
hay growers contract was adopted
with few minor changes. Five d.
rectors were elected as temporary
board to serve until the next annual
election and three commissioners were
appointed to take steps to incorporate.
The directors were elected for each of
the five districts and as follows: Chi
nook district, w. B. Sands. Chinook.
Harlem district, Clyde Davey, Harlem
Malta -Dodson district. Ben Stevens
Saco district. r. w. Shaw, Saco. and
Glasgow Hinsdale district, Fred Hels-
trem. Hinsdale. The directors met at
Malta yesterday at p. n., for the pur-
pose of electing their officers, making
arrangement for selling more stock and
transacting other business which needs
to be taken uD at this time.
The association has already carried
on some correspondence within the
state railroad commissioners regard
to reducing f'reights on hay. 1t seems
that a reduction is made on east bound
hay, but west bound hay has not been
given the same consideration The as
SO citation has taken this up with both
the Great Northern railroad and the
state railroad commissioners with n