The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1921-08-20
GRAIN GROWERS
MAY ORGANIZE
REPRESENTATIVE OF WASHING
TON WHEAT GROWERS AS
ISOLATION Is IN COUNTY.
W. G.. Rockwell to Explain Workings
OF OrganizatiOn-Farm Bureau
Has Charge of Program.

Plans for having the wheat grow
ers of Stevens county join in the
Washington Wheat Growers associa
tion are rapidly taking shape with
the arrival of w. G. Rockwell. of
the association, who arrived in Col
vile last Saturday. Mr.. Rockwell
came to the county to explain the
plan of the association by request of
the farmers through the Stevens
County Farm Bureau.
According to Mr.. Rockwell, the
association had its first inception
when number of wheat growers
of the Big Bend and Palousc dis
tricts realized that it was necessary
for the wheat growers to place their
product on well managed basis If
they wanted to get a reasonable
price for their product. The first
indication that the new organization
was going to be Il success, came
when the wheat growers Of Power
county, Idaho, were able through the
organization to sell their wheat at
a price twenty cents above the mar
ket quotation.
Organized along the same lines
as the Inland Empire dairy associa-
ton, the Washington Wheat Grow
ers association has been a decided
success where it has started to do
business According to Mr.. Rock
well. the association is an organiza-
ton of farmers. controlled by far
mer-directors, who are elected an
nually by the members of the a So
citation. Its aim is to place the ar
keting end on better basis and IN
so doing it is able to sell to the con
sumner. the export trade and the
flour mills, obtaining better price
than if the grain was handled in
dividually.
agriculture is the only business,
in which the prices of the different
products is not based on the cost ot
production" said Mr.. Rockwell. "l'hc
buyer sets the price which, IN many
cases. is not fair to the gro er.
The farmers must pay attention to
the marketing end of their product
if they wish to get a fair price for
then. product and it was on account
of this that the association was or
ganilcd."
Each grade and variety Of wheat
according to Mr. Rockwell goes nto
pool by itself and is sold to the
best advantages When tho wheat
is sold each member receives the
average price of the pool times tn"
number of bushels he had put INTO
the pool.
"Thc association" said Mr.. Rock
well, "is able to advance the WI eat
grower IS per cent of the market
price as soon as he has delivered his
wheat to a place designated. When
the pool into which his wheat has
been put, is sold the farmer then
receives the rest Of his money. The
association is able at the pre- ent
time to advance 65 cents a bu hel
on wheat.
ave would have been here sooner
20 get the wheat growers of the
county interested in the association"
continued Mr.. Rockwell, "but we did
not realize that such quantities OF
wheat were being grown here.
believe that the farmers Of the ccun-
ty have much to gain by joining the
association"
According to Walter J. Robin. on,
state manager for the Washington
and Idaho Wheat Growers asso"ia-
ton, 100 carloads of wheat were de-
livrrcd at the coast terminals the
past week and 100 carloads arc OK
pected to be delivered during the
coming week. The wheat delivered
was part of the 100000 bushels
sold to Japan. Nh. Robinson also
stated that the first ship load of
wheat sold for S1.33 on the coast or
SLIP TO the farmers in this vicinity.