The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-06-16
GRAIN GROWERS
ARE PREFERRED
County Agents Believe Organization
Far Better than National
Wheat Growers
LIVELY TIME AT MEETING HERE
Regretted that Two Associations are
Working in Same Field


Solicitors for membership in the
North Dakota Wheat Growers asso-
citation, branch Of the National
Wheat Growers association, held q
meeting in Oakes Thursday at which
they attempted to sign up as many
members as possible before the cam
paign for membership in the U. s.
Grain Growers, Inc, is begun in this
county. They met with little response
from the farmers present when A. E.
Adams, county agent Of Dickey coun-
ty, and E. A. Greenwood of Sargent
county, pointed out the flaws in their
plan and showed the superiority of
the larger plan of the U. S. Grain
Growers, Inc.
Farmers for time were at loss
as to whether to believe the propa-
ganda spread by the fiowery-t -tongued
solicitor in opposition to the Commit
tee of Seventeen or to place confidence
in the advice of their own Farm Bu-
reau. Many farmers said that they
did not know much about either plan
but that they would place good bit
of confidence in the advice of Senator
Ladd on the subject. In order to get
the views Of Senator Ladd first hand
a telegram was sent to him direct,
by w. w. Denning, president Of the
Dickey County Farm Bureau, asking
his opinion. He replied as follows:
"Believe U. S. Grain Growers far su-
perior. E. F. Ladd."
w. w. Denning, one of the members
Of the state Farm Bureau executive
committee, gives out the following in
formation: Farmers for the past
year have been trying to get together
and accomplish something in the mar
keting of their grain crops. Up to
this time several organizations have
been working along similar lines in
competition with each other. Due to
the efforts Of the American Farm Bu-
reau federation all these organizations
met in conference and spent several
months in formulating a workable
marketing plan, which is to be put in
to force by the U. S. Grain Growers,
Inc. All grain growers marketing or
ganizations except the National Wheat
Growers have agreed to adopt the plan
which provides for financing, ware
housing and exporting companies that
will enable the members to hold or
sell their grain as they see fit to do"
Henry c. Wallace, secretary of ag-
riculture, said in his Chicago speech:
"There are several features Of the
plan which appeal to me strongly.
First, you seem to have avoided the
weaknesses which have broken down
many previous organizations; second,
you 90 not attempt to wipe out our
great marketing machinery, which
has been built up through long per-
iod of time; third, you are neither at
tempting to create a monopoly or to
fix prices"
The National Wheat Growers asso-
citation is the only cooperative mar
keting company that has not Joined
forces with the larger company known
as the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc. Their
plan is to pool all their wheat and
wait until they get their price for it.
They have no selling, grading, financ-
ing or warehouing facilities and do
not intend to enter into the marketing
Of any grain other than wheat.
Farmers are advised by the Farm
Bureau to join the U. S. Grain Crow
ers in preference to the smaller or
ganization of wheat growers, because
it will be stronger company, operat-
ing on more business-like basis, and
will not be put out of business be-
cause the government passes an anti
pooling bill which will put a stop to
the formation of all organizations
whose sole purpose is price fixing.
The fact that there are two organ
izations working in the same field is
to be regretted. However, it is thought
that the membership in the U. 8.
Grain Growers, Inc, will soon become
so large that the National Wheat
Growers association will follow the
example of the Western Wheat Grow
ers, the Equity, the Farmers Union
and all other organizations Of like
nature and join hands with farmers
all over the United States as they or
ganize to go about the marketing Of
their grain in sane and business like
manner.
}. Party for Mrs. Christensen
:. At the invitation of Mrs. VIM.