The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-31
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

James K. Mason, vice-president of
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc, has
furnished the August number of the
Hoosier Farmer with an explanatory
letter in relation to the present status
of his organization. Mr.. Mason gives
no details of current activities look
ing to the sale of grain by any farm
bureau SALES Company" nor does he
say anything about the membership
campaign, in any state.
In as much as the entire member
ship in Wayne and adjoining counties,
also the farmers who are not mem
bers of the Grain Growers, are inter
ested in this matter, we take pleasure
in presenting Mr.. Mason's letter for
their information. The letter follows:
''In the June issue of the Hoosier
Farmer, | promised the members OF
the U. S. Grain Growers in Indiana, a
statement of our activities pertaining
to the establishment of an agency for
the sale of members grain.
1 ne f1dl6S COulIdCI NlllSl Ids DCS'A
so thoroughly discussed by the news
papers everywhere was an arrange
ment for the sale of grain upon the
Board of Trade at Chicago. The sue
cess of this movement depended very
largely upon the passage of the Cap
per-Tincher Bill. This bill in amend
ed form is still in the hands of the
Senate and at this time there is every
indication that the organized grain
markets will continue to fight against
the establishment of a farmers sales
agency in any of the principal mar
kets of the central west.
81 have been corresponding for sew
eral months with buyers of grain who
do a track bidding business and in
this connection, | went to Cleveland,
Ohio on July 3rd to talk over such 4
proposition with H w Robinson of
the Union Elevator Company"
Will Solicit Track Bids
ION July 18th l received written au-
thorization from the officers of the
u. S. Grain Growers, Inc, which en-
powered me to negotiate a contract
with any buyer of grain operating on
the basis commonly known as track
bidding, or to take steps for the crea-
ton of a company with capital stock
authorized under the laws of Indiana
to do a regular brokerage business for
our members.
"The contract with Mr.. Robinson
was signed by him on July 18th and
under its provision, we will begin
within a few days to mail bids to the
elevators and local grain growers as
sociations identified with us. We have
no intention of abruptly calling your
contract into operation. 1t will be i'm
possible to fully organize the local
Grain Grower Associations except by
fully reviewing the lists of contracts
written in each community to ascer-
tain where each grower belongs"
Farmers Must Hold Line
'This will be done in due time and
We trust that our members will be
patient as they have been in the past,
that this undertaking may not meet
with any unnecessary delay.
| I'VE will communicate with all Of
! ficers, of local Grain Grower Associa-
lions and will help them in every way
possible to put their organization in
the best possible condition for our fu-
| ture activities. Full information will
! be published from time to time in the
Hoosier Farmers, Organized.
! "In conclusion let me say TO the
q. S. Grain Grower members as well
as to all farmers who are interested
in this great movement, that this is
but the first step in carrying out this
great program. Its success will de.
pend in part on you. Your loyalty
! throughout the trying experiences OF
the past year has been wonderful
Will you hold the line?"
JAMES x MASON.
Butter and Egg Stocks
! The stocks of creamery butter held
| in cold storage are very heavy at this
time They totalled about 6S,000,000
pounds in July /, or almost 100000
pounds more than in storage on July
| 1, 1921 The present storage stocks
are the largest on record, except in
| the boom year 1919, when they ran W
| to 90,000,000 AS matter of fact
our present butter stocks exceed the
average of the past years pretty
close to 100000 pounds. June was a
would fully protect the rights of the
| strikers and the new men and yet
al fi1l incfipo +n fhnco 1rb r