The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-02-09
WOOL GROWERS MEET FEB. 20

" AAl hANAA y "a nthluuA AACONitb lIOlc
on February 20.
j.. G. Rogers, of Midland, president
of the association, will open the meet
ing, Other features Of the program
will be the report of M. r. Benedict,
secretary; Report of the Wool Pool"
by j. C.. Holmes, manager; "Iowa's
Three Years Experience in Poolings
WOOL" by V. G.. Warner, secretary
treasurer of the Iowa Fleece Growers
association; Enhancing the Wool
Grower in 1922" Hugh N. Allen, Of
the State Department of Agriculture:
THE State Farm Bureaus Relation
to the Wool Pool" by Geo. A. Starring
secretary of the South Dakota Farm
Bureau Federation. Mr.. NJ. Staff,
president of the National Wool Ware
house and Storage Company, of Chica-
go, will also be present to discuss
the national selling agency for mar
keting wool comparatively.
Huron, Feb. THE South Dakota
Farm Bureau federation has Just re-
ceived from j. r. Howard, president
of the national farmers organization,
the following comment upon the re-
cent national conference called by
President Harding and Secretary Wal
lace:
"The national agricultural confer
ence will go down into history as the
farthest reaching conference Of farm
ers ever held. The topmost feature. of
course, was the addre s. of the Presi-
dent of the United States and the
commitments which il contained of the
administrators attitude toward agri-
culture. Probably no chief executive
of the nation has previously indicat-
ed so deep and intelligent an interest
in the farmers affairs. President
aHrding recognized the bad state OF
agriculture at the present time; stress
ed the outstanding importance of ag-
riculture in BUR national life; showed
that the farmer must have a credit
system adapted to his needs; asserted
that lasting improvement is to come
only from the development of cooper
alive marketing; favored a scientific
limitation of production and pointed
out the dignity of the profession.
The Presidents challenge to the
farmer to organize in order to help
himself is cheerfully accepted by the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The Farm Bureau will undertake to
organize all the farmers of the nation
and unite them into strong commodity
marketing associations, which will i'm
prove the distribution of food to the
lasting benefit of both consumer and
producer. We want to bring the eat
er and the grower close together.
The cooperative marketing move
ment as fostered by the American
Farm Bureau federation is a protest
expressed in action against excessive
margins and distributive costs. 1t is
no new thing. II has been carried on
successfully in Europe for hundreds
OF years. Within less than fifty years
Denmark, through cooperative market
ing, has reduced distribution costs SO
that the producer receives 70 cents
of the consumers dollar, more than
twice as much as We get here, and
through cooperative marketing has re-
builoed her entire national prosperity
Secretary Wallace comes out of the
national agricultural conference with
his hands greatly strengthened to per.
form a real and definite service for
agriculture and the nation. Particu.
larry notable in the Endorsements oil
the conference are the farmers de-
mands for early completion of the st
Lawrence deep waterway, for the de-
velopment of Muscle Shoals by Henry
Ford. the building of a credit machine
adapted to a farm turnover at reason
able rates of interest, and that both
capital and labor must share alike in
the readjustments which have already
hit agriculture.
THE Endorsement by the conference
of the agricultural bloc Is significant.
1.-THE conference would probably new
err have been possible except for the
work of the congressional joint COM
mission of agricultural inquiry under
the progressive leadership of Chair
man Sidney Anderson. To President
Harding, Secretary Wallace and Chair
man Anderson the farmers of America
are today rendering a sincere vote of
thanks for this opportunity to present
their case to the nation and to seek a
inst and lasting remedy for the heper6t