The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-05-18
NORTHWEST WHEAT
GROWERS ORGANIZE
EXPLANATORY MATTER FROM
AUGUST NELSON, DIST.
ACT. PLENTYWOOD

Do you know that you in North
North Dakota grow the highest quail
ity wheat that is grown in the U. S. {
That your wheat is sold for the high
est price of any wheat grown in the
U. S., but that you do not get any
of this high price? And why don't
you? The reason is simply that you
let the other. fellow sell it for you
and he gets the premiums. Then
why continue doing this when you
can pool your grain and force them
to pay you the premium.
If there were no other pool on
wheat in the United States, you could
still make this one success, because
they want this wheat for the high
gluten there is in it.
Can't you see the advantage of a
100 per cent pool? So get behind it
and make it a success.
Cooperation among the wheat
growers is marching ahead. The
marketing efforts Of all the 100 per
cent pooling cooperative associations
of the United States will hereafter
be conducted under one management.
At meetings in Denver on March l
and Kansas Sity on March 9, detail
ed plans were worked out for fed
Grafton of ten state marketing as
sociations, controlling at the present
time more than 75,000,000 bushels
of pooled wheat.
The combir aticn as par'.c'; will
s.bsor1 the Northwest Wheat Grow
ers, Associated: ar.d The National
Wheat drawers, associated Tho
Northwest Wheat Growers, Asscciat-
ed, comy.~.ses four statewide wheat
marketinC associations N Oregon,
Montana, Washington and Idaho. The
National Wheat Growers Association
includes legally incorporated bodies
in Oklahoma. Kansas and North Qa-
kota, and other associations now IN
process of formation in Texas, Ne
vada and Colorado.
The total present membership IN
the ten states named is slightly in
excess of $4,000 farmers, all of whom
grow wheat and all of whom have
already signed legally binding con-
tracts under which all the wheat
that they grow is pledged to be mar
keted through their own associations
on a completely pooled basis, for a
five year period.
Continuing membership in the ten
states is expected to bring the total
membership to more than $4,000 and |
the total amount of controlled wheat |
to more than 10O,000,000 bushels be-
fore July 1 of this year.
Negotiations sponsored by Carl
Williams, of Oklahoma, were under
way for several months looking to
the progress of the various state or
carnations. The result was an offl-
cial call issued by George c. Jewett,
the Northwestern Wheat
Growers, for meeting of delegates
from all similar wheat growing or
ganizations to be held at Denver on
March 1. Representatives of the
u. S. Grain Growers, the great CO.
operative commission sales agency OF
Chicago, were also invited to the
meeting though, on account of diff
ferences in their plan of organlza-
ton from that of pooling organiza-
tons, no common ground for fed
Grafton with them could be found.
The plan as outlined for the new
federation proposes no change what
ever in the corporate forms of the
existing state wheat-marketing asso-
Citations. 1t merely unites them in a
gigantic sales organization which will
cover practically all the surplus
sections of the
United States.
The nation will be divided into
sales zones according to markets. {
All state associations chiefly patron /
zing the same market will be in {
,luded in the same zone to which /
hey wish to belong. At present it
6 probable that four zones will be
.reated. Zone No. will probably
include the state associations of Ore I
ron. Washington and Idaho, Zone
70. 2 will cover Montana and North
Dakota, with other spring wheat
tates vet to be organized. Zone No.
!, will doubtless include Kansas, Ne
,raska and Colorado. Zone No.
Will take in Oklahoma and Texas.
Each state association will have
wo trustees on the zone board, with I
additional representa-
ion for states having more than TO-
100000 bushels of wheat under con-
ract. One of the zone trustees from
ach state will be named as the
tate's member of the board of dl- a
ectors of the national organization, Il
which is to be known as the Amerl- Il
an Wheat Growers. Associated. o
Pools probably will be created by r
ones, and the zone boards will have