The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-11

+ Fargo, North Dakota, was host 4
* to thousands of farmers January 4
Il 18th to 21st. These men of agri- +
Il cultural calling gathered in that +
= city in response to the s.
q" ment of the 22nd annual V +
y ton of the Tri-State Grain Grow Il
~ ers. In many respects this con Is
y vention was the most outstanding 4
u gathering of agricultural interests s.
y ever held in the Northwest. The s.
= men and women who attended this 4
" convention had the opportunity of i
* hearing the finest battery of =
" speakers that " faced audi q
y ences. The subjects discussed "
X were the most timely, dealing as *
X they did for the most part with &
i farmers organizations, co-opera- +
s ton and marketing. #
" II. Howard Bigger, the author of 4
. this of the convention, per- *
* s0nally attended the meeting and *
II his report is one of the best pub x
% lished. 1t is we'll for the Montana Il
* farmers to follow these discus i
* sions set forth, for the PROPOSE +
i tons which are confronting agri- *
t. culture in the Dakotas are almost s.
" identical with the condition in this +
# state. +
* THE EDITOR. s.
i: * s 81 i * 4 * IL * il X u = 81 81
in grain, and of advocating the holding
OF wheat for higher prices" Mr.. An
derson is a member of the American
Farm Bureau Committee of Seventeen
to investigate grain marketing. He
stated that this committee had been
working since the first of October try
ing to solve the problem of building a
marketing system for marketing the
grain of the United States. He said
that the committee had from the first
been given the support of farmers all
over the United States. GAS a COM
mittec," said Mr.. Anderson, eve have
gone on record as being against the
short selling of grain. We ask that
when a man sells anything, that the
thing he sells must be in existence.
We want a system devised so as to
provide that when grain is bought for
future delivery, that such grain must
have been produced" That the time
was ripe for legislation along these
lines was evident, he said, when we
consider that during the course of q
single year, 100 billion bushels of
wheat are sold on the Chicago Board
Of Trade and yet there has never been
produced in any year as much as one
billion bushels. Personally, Mr.. An
derson said that he believed that the
grain districts of the United States
should be divided into six or seven
zones and that a farmers terminal
elevator should be established in each
zone. He advocated the formation of
large export companies or selling CON
Germs to handle the surplus wheat
crop. In his opinion there should also
be export agencies and crop reporting
agencies, the purpose of the latter be-
ing to give all possible information
about the worlds wheat crop, possible
demands of wheat for consumption and
all else of interest from a marketing
standpoint.
On the evening of the 18th. the
speakers were DR.. E. c. Perisho, for.
mcr president of South Dakota State
College, and w. A. Aamodt, president
of the Minnesota Potato Exchange
DR.. Perish stated that there had al
ways been three great human needs
something to eat, something to wear
and shelter. He said that we coulc
eXsist for years without materially al.
terlng u homes or buying new
clothes, but that science had never
yet invented any system by which {
man could live one week on what he
had eaten the week before. Therefore
the problem of agriculture, which is
a food problem, if of greatest impor
lance. DR.. Perish stated that there
are flour mills enough in the two Da
kotas to grind $4,000. 900 bushels OF
wheat annually and that some methot
should be devised to grind this whear
thus saving freight rates on whea
shipped to Minneapolis, manufactur
ing our w flour and flour for othe1
states, at the same time keeping tn,
bran and shorts at home for use a.
stock food. He also believed tina
more butchering should be done on tn,
farm and thus make unnecessary tn,
shipping in of so much packing hous,
meat. Commenting on the problem
of the hour and possible remedies. DR.
Pershio said:
Here is the problem of the New
East with millions starving and on
own farmers unable to obtain adequate
prices for their grain. We must ge
: a more permanent population on on
farms. We must get more workmel
VII u aims anu itlp W SOlNS III
l problem of providing work for the tw,
. millions of people who are now unem
l ployed. We have in the past produce,
an over production of non-producers
Education is vital at the present time
= the education of the children in al
our schools to the realization tina
| farming is a business and that no far
mer should be compelled to sell tn
y tNt,nIt,1t. e h.r fo,n, e., o-, +l-, Al.
/ actual cost of production plus a fai
profit. The thoughts of the people O
/. the future are now being shaped in GU
schools. Let US teach them now som
: of those things so that when they ar
: grown, they will do all in their powe
to remedy such evils as exist at tn
present time"
In handling his subject, "Coopera
tive Potato Marketing" Mr.. Aamod
said in part:
"Marketing potatoes in a cooperativ