The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-09-29


state according to gluten content OF
the wheat, which this year is low. and
advocated the pooling Of grain In
spring wheat states as method OF
| controlling the price.
The committee On exports submitted
figures showing an increase in wheat
i production in the United States, Can
ada, and the British Indies and a
corresponding decrease in other eoun-
tries, leaving the present supply
100000 bushels under normal An
agreement to take the bonds Of
European countries at par was rec
commended to the federal government,
and farmers are urged to join a
national marketing organization SO
that one sales agency may deal with
export buyers
The committee on finance deferred
report until the return Of the WASH
ington committee, but submitted the
| opinion that there are now ample
credit facilities to insure the orderly
marketing Of this years crop.
| ~SttRt UtstfS SAESCys
Chairman c. B. Waldron of the COM
mittee on agriculture submitted the
following report: 1.-THE committee on
agriculture begs to submit the PROPOSE
ton that so long as and to the extent
/ that farmers follow an irrational sys-
TEN of agriculture, no outside aid In
| the way Of financing, marketing or
| transportation will make their oper-
ations profitable. In accord with this
fundamental principle your committee
would recommend that settlement be
created for q substantial reduction Of
the wheat acreage throughout the
country and that other crops and
lines Of production be developed.
"This is the more important because
Of the fact that our surplus wheat is
brought into competition with wheat
growing countries everywhere and our
selling price is fixed in the worlds
markets.
Until the costs Of labor, taxes, ma
ehinery, transportation, and farm
equipment get more nearly in line
with the marketing price of farm
products we would urge farmers to
devote themselves more largely, to
those enterprises that will insure
them comfortable living, reducing
to the minimum such highly specu-
lative operations as grain grading.
Grain of low market value, includ-
ing wheat should be fed upon the
farm wherever possible without actual
loss as that reduces the visible supply
and tends to keep UP prices. It La
also a questionable practice to pay
half as much for threshing a crop as
1t can be sold for, instead of feeding 1t
upon the farm in straw.
1.-THE issuing of county bonds for the
purchase of seed wheat should be
generally discouraged as it but puts
Off the day of reckoning and eneaas
ages an enterprise that under present
conditions Is being carried on without
profit.
Some system Of financing farmers
to get start In daipying or livestoaA
farming is more to be recommended
'sYour committee appreciates the
importance of a better system Ill
grading and marketing, lower rssg
of transportation and an adsexRa
system Of farm financing, but thsgs
alone cannot develop nor save an 10
dustry that is FUNDAMENTALLY weak
and unseund. We urge upon farmers
fn apafAyo hn Nc
wsll-balanced and permanent system
Of agriculture that will be less affected
by unfavorable seasons and net 90 de-
pendent upon market quotations"
Resolutions.
The report of the committee on reso.
lutiens embraced the following, copies
being sent the president and secretary
Of agriculture:
Recognizing the calamity that now
oonfronts our farmers as well as busl-
nsssmen from the poor price, the ap-
parently unjust grading, coupled with
the high cost of production and mar
ksting, we offer the following resolu-
tions!
First: Only two methods appear to
be possible in bringing about relief,
the arbitrary fixing Of a price by the
government; second, the development
Of cooperative marketing, financing
the grower and developing syssss.
Of marketing, which system appears to
your committee to be the only lasting
solution Of our problem. %
Second: To successfully deal with
the immediate conditions absolute co
operation Is necessary.
Third: To market successfully, grain
must not glut the market, foreign gov
srnments must buy on a truly competf-
tive basis and markets must be de-
veloped by conducting the Orient to
use our grain and grain products.
Fourth: To market grain success
fully, storage on the farm instead of
In the elevators and mills must be
encouraged. Some system must be
worked out so that financed by the
federal reserve bank or otherwise,
each of our grain growing localities
must be able to organize q loan district
30 that the farmer, on his actual grain,