The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-08-04
FIRST WHEAT
FROM PARAMOUNT

wheat left North Dakota consigned
to the United States Grain Growers.
Inc. It was probably the first car
shipped from the local growers as
ISOLATION organized at Paramount
Richland county, to N. D. Davies,
one of the U. s. Grain Growers
organizers. It was consigned to St.
Paul, to Zone Agency No. 2 Of the
United States Grain Growers, which
is the official designation for the
Equity terminal elevator, now aligned
with the United States Grain Grow
ers. ~
"We're now in business" said
Usher L. Burdick, organizing direc-
tor for North Dakota Of the United
States Grain Growers. "These Fair
mount shippers will draw at once on
Chicago headquarters for Is per cent
of the market value Of their wheat.
The balance will be paid when the
pool of which this wheat is part is
closed out, at the end of the crop
season. At each of the 101 elevators
in this state which have signed with
US we shall, as soon as the books are
installed, begin the acceptance of
WhcdC AOA WHICH, VIC SAoA Poy snip
pers at once75 percent of the market
value" vt
Saturday was the last day for
signing elevators and associations in
North Dakota for the 1921 crop. Or
ganizing work from henceforth will
be confined to the signing of individ-
ual contracts for the 1921 crops, and
elevators and associations for the
1922 crop. There have been signed
101 elevators and local growers asso-
Citations, according to Mr.. Burdick,
including five Equity elevators,
which signed Professionally upon the
concluding Of arrangements between
the national Equity officers and the
United States Grain Growers. J. M.
Anderson, president of Equity, has
just wired that such an agreement
was reached in Chicago last week, 50
the putty elevators will become affi-
lated with the United States Grow
ers. ..~...
The following are the elevators that
hav signed in Barnes county: Darcy,
Berea, Alta, Fingal, Litchville, Kath-
ryn, Eastadge. Associations: Cuba,
Nome.
H. B. Fuller, secretary of the
North Dakota Farm Bureau fedora
ton, returned Sunday from Chicago.
where he attended a conference of
delegates from II states to 60 over
matters connected with the Grain
Growers. In some states there had
been some dissatisfaction on the part
of Farm Bureau officials with the
work of the Grain Growers, but
complete agreement was reached at
Chicago, and the work. of organiza-
ton will now be pushed in all the
grain growing states, with the Amer
lean Farm Bureau federation every
where lending its hearty assistance.
Officials of the United States
Grain Growers are expecting consid-
cradle in the way of developments
from the visit of Barney Baruch, fin
ancial adviser of the Farmers Fin
ance corporation, to Europe. It has
been Mr.. Baruch's contentious that
the farmers should sell their grain
bq going directly to those who wish
to buy. 1t is believed he will make
arrangements by which the United
States Grain Growers will be able to
dispose Of most of their surplus d.
rect to Europe, without paying any
In Germany Mr..
Baruch was in conference with Hugo
SHINES, Germany's greatest fnan-
cier. It is thought not improbable he
may visit Russia before his return to
in view of Russia's present
great need for food. and the fact
that trading has now been resumed
between Russia and the United
States.