The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-28
GIVE ATTENTION u
WHEAT MARKETING
j BONN Rottinaa,,

r. =. BONN, Bottineau
The North Dakota Wheat Growers
Association is offering d remedy that
all who have joined feel is the only
I remedy. ..Sss f}s .5s, y. ~
The farmer sells his wheat now by
weight and color. The miller buys on
q gluten test or on a milling value.
v That is the reason that the Associa-
tion says the present system of mar
keting is wrong and it is the reason
that the Association has been able to
4 sell wheat that was raised IL miles
out Of Grand Forks on alkali soil for
which the farmer was offered only so
cents q bushel, for $1O01a and anoth-
er lot of wheat for which was offered
only 63 cents at the local elevator, for
d $1.081a. Now the local elevator cam
not help this as he has instructions to
buy on weight and color. Another car
of wheat was sold which graded No.
8, was cleaned and regarded and brot
No. and the screenings sold for $45
credited to that farmers car of wheat.
. The farmer has been receiving only
from three to seven cents premium,
where the Association has received as
high as 80 cents premium. An elevator
man who buys in Bottineau county
told the writer that because he had not
been very busy and had a good deal
Of time to sell car of wheat received
q premium that he would not want to
tell but he said if, he was busy as he
would generally be at this time of the
year he would not be able to get such
premiums. If an elevator man can get
such results at long distance is it any
wonder that an association that con-
trolls one hundred million bushels and
has an expert at the marketing end of
it can sell a low grade wheat at such
a difference as has been quoted above.
Is it any wonded the Montana: farm
er figuring the difference of the
freight rate received the highest price
that was paid for Dark Northern
Spring Wheat No. / and the price
ranged at Bottineau, N. D. from 20
cents in November to as high as STAT
in the month of April when the farm
er had none to sell. That is the reason
that where last year there was handled
only 100000 bushels of wheat In
Montana by the Association this year
they handled 100000 bushels.
The writer believes that where the
farmer works 365 days out Of a year
he should at least be willing to spend
one day to investigate the wheat
growers plan and find out all about it.
We have been taught or at least they
have tried to teach us how to raise
two bushels where one was raised be-
fore and the more we raised the less
we received for cur wheat.
The merchants who have to- carry
accounts year after year because the
farmer no matter how hard he works
when be gets crop has to sell it for
less than it cost him. No business
could prosper under such condition.
Would you merchants lot be willing
to spend day to make thorough
investigation in what the : Wheat
Growers Association is doing. /
The writer will be glad to hold meet.
ings in any school house where some
body is interested enough to arrange
a date with the writer to hold such
a meeting.
The writer proposes that each town
or village will arrange a day when
there will be a community meeting OF
farmers and business men or a-get-
together meeting Of farmers and busl-
ness men, to bring their lunches, come
to town about 1890 A. NJ, hold 9
meeting in the forenoon, have jolly
time while we eat lunch at noon, theE l'e
continue the meeting i'm the afternoon
saw till s r. M. Under that plan an
farmers can come to town in day light
and 90 home in daylight, and BRING
their wives, as the Association mas
nothing that they are not willing TO
explain to the. farmers wife. BY dong
so we will have time to go into "
thoroughly. s5ss.ss st..
lis the marketing Of our product
worth one day out Of the year study j
inp how it can be improved? Il 50,
write the writer at Bottineau N. Y.
He himself has spent nearly. all his llte
on the farm and has every dollar now
ia a farm. Are you willing TO keep on
taking what you can get for you wheat
regardless Of what il costs you? What
business can stand that
8 We must help ourselves il we ever
expect to be helped. 4s.sS
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