The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-11
With The GRAIN
GROWERS AT FARGO
Continued from Page .

~ Az pooSiilS ouI VI IIS III - WIN
~tillers. The nation is approaching q
state similar to the feudal system of
old Europe. Unless it is stopped, the
foundations of democracy will be
rocked. Some great movement must
step in and stop this drift. This
movement must be national in scope.
The American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, in my opinion, is the movement
that alone can lift agriculture to the
position its Importance demands. If
it can show to the American people
the Importance of agriculture, it will
have done more than all other farm
organizations have accomplished in so
years. No n in Congress has ever
spoken with real authority on agri-
culture. We need men with the far
mer's viewpoint in Congress. In the
next 5 or 10 years, the thought and the
ideals of our people will be found to
be just as strong and sincere on the
farms as anywhere else" Mr.. Burdick
spoke of the importation of vast guam
titles of beef, of hides and of wool
free of duty within the past year and
showed how this has powerfully helped
in the lowering of prices of all these
commodities. In so doing he expressed
his faith in the future of the Farm
Bureau of North Dakota and said that
the state would have in time one of
the most progressive organizations in
the nation.
DR.. Ladd's Address.
DR.. Ladd, senator-elect from North
Dakota, opened his address by stating
that he had long felt the need of a
nation wide organization like the Farm
Bureau. He urged every farmer of the
state to get into the membership ranks
of the Bureau and put his best efforts
into it. He emphasized the necessity
of keeping politics out of the organi-
cation. DR.. Ladd secuted the idea
that the importation of Canadian
wheat was the real reason of the
slump in wheat prices, saying that
Canadian wheat importation had been
the club used by the board of trade in
beating down the price. DR.. Ladd de-
voted the major portion of his talk to
the activities of the Committee of Sew
enteen of which he is a member. He
said thrat this committee represented
excellent authorities on this subject
and that they had met from time to
time to consider the subject of grain
marketing from every angle. They
had called in experts not only of this
country but of other countries and had
put in considerable study on the or
ganization and marketing methods of
the fruit growers of California. He
gave the details of the wheat pool in
Canada. DR.. Ladd believes that the
committee will before long have a plan
which can be put into operation and
that probably a part of the wheat crop
of 1921 will be marketed by the new
plan and a large percentage of the
crop of 1922.
California's Marketing Work Out
lined.
The Tri-State Grain Growers were
especially fortunate to be able to hear
an expert on marketing. who within
the past few months has become a
national figure. The gentleman was
Aaron Sapiro, attorney for the Cali
fornia Fruit Growers Association.
This was Mr.. Sapiro's first address in
the Dakotas and he took occasion to
state his appreciation of the opportun-
lty of coming to this convention to
speak of California's marketing organ
izations.
Mr.. Sapiro is not an orator, but for
two hours am audience of several
thousand listened intently to catch
every work of his clear cut descrip-
tive address of the outstanding work
accomplished by the fruit grower of
his state. At the outset he clearly de-
fined the main difference between the
industry of agriculture and other in
dustries. The products of the city, he
stated, such as steel or shoes or cot
ton and wooden goods, are products
which represent GROUP production"
Agriculture is based entirely on Sin
dividual production" efforts at
community production of agricultural
products have been tried out in Rus
sia,' said Mr.. Sapiro, "but they were
not successful. and Russia has gone
back to the old system of individual
productions Commenting on market
ing methods, he said:
"You farmers produce Individually
and you have always tried to market
individually. The latter has been your
mistake. Cooperative marketing is
the inevitable and the only sane and
intelligent method of handling farm
products. 1t is not a substitute for
any other one method. 1t is the one
sane method of marketing, and is a
substitute for all other methods. You
people of the middle west differ from
we folks of the Pacific Coast in that
we do not believe in any individual
marketing his products individually.
We have learned as the result of long
experience that such a system is un-
sound. For the past % years Cali !
fornla has been a great laboratory for
the trying out of mrketing methods.
We have now hit upon the right meth
cd, a method which we use for the
marketing of perishable products,
semi perishable products and non-per-
ishable products. Marketing must be
done by commodity rather than by To-
cality. The wide divergence of prices
on a commodity. such as c~abbages, for
example, shows the necessity of COM
modify marketing. In fact you may be
interested in Knowing that that the
United States is the only great agri-
cltural country in the world which tries
to do its marketing by locality"
Mr.. Sapiro as an example took IN
the methods used in the marketing of
prunes in California. For 10 years, he
said, the average price received by
prune growers was 3 cents a pound.
Fortunes were made in prunes, but
by the growers. The huge profits
piled up We're received by men in San
Francisco who did not grow prunes
but who bought prunes and sold them
again. The prune business was han
by Is firms and it was a common