The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-08
FAMOUS COOP
LEADERS WILL
MAKE ADDRESS
Aaron Sapiro Will Speak at
Moorhead, Minnesota, to
Potato Growers

Potato growers of North Dakota
and of Traverse, Wilkin and Clay
counties in Minnesota will meet a,
Mooihead, Tuesday, Sept. II, to hea,
Aaron Sapiro, nationally known co.
operative marketing expert, discuss
essentials in the movement now un.
der way to perfect new potato
sales agency in the Northwest.
Sapiro's Moorhcad address will be
the second of series that he is to
make in the potato sections of the
state, following his speech on the
Farm Bureau Day program at the
Minnesota State FAIR, Sept. 6. Or
Monday, he will speak at Crookston
and before the week ends he will
have appeared at Detroit, Bemidji
and in Stearns county at Princeton
These speaking dates, as we'll as
the one at the State Fair, are being
arranged by the Minnesota Farm Blu
reau Federation, the organization
committee of the Minnesota Potato
Growers Exchange, local Farm Blu.
reau leaders, potato growers and
business men.
Arrangements for the Moorhead
meeting are developing rapidly, ac-
cording to j. S. Jones, secretary of
the state Federation. F. M. Brophy
of Moorhead has been named general
chairman in charge Of the arrange
ments for the meeting there. In each
county, other leaders have been NAM
ed to assist him in making the meet
ing one of the largest and most i'm
pOrtant in recent years.
Associates with Mr.. Brophy will be
Robert L. Scott of Borup, H. B. FULL
er, secretary of the North Dakota
Farm Bureau Federation, B. H.
Briggs, A. H. Costain and Andrew
Cole, all of Moorhead, T. C. Evans of
Hawley, Mr.. Trovaten of GAINESVILLE,
Chris Jorgenson of Doran, l.. S. Stall
ings of Breckenridge and v. f. An.
derson and F. F. Moore of Wheaton.
In many respects, the Moorhead
meeting is considered the most i'm
portant of the six that are being ar
ranged. Minnesota leaders realize a
potato marketing agency that does
not include the Red River Valley
section of North Dakota can not hope
for complete success. With North
Dakota growers outside the agency.
Minnesotans would be handicapped by
potatoes from that section moving tc
the market and breaking the price
despite any orderly movement that
might be maintained by the Gopher
growers.
At Moorhead Mr.. Sapiro is expected
to discuss, especially, the vital neces-
sity for linking up growers in all
parts of the Northwest, regardless
Of the state in which they live.
Mr.. Fuller has been asked to use
the full strength of the North Da-
kota Farm Bureau in an effort to
have growers from all sections of
that state at the meeting. He has
promised Mr.. Jones his hearty CO.
operation and indicasss that farmers
from his state will attend this meet
ing in unusual numbers.
For several months, negotiations
have been under way to make it pos
sible for North Dakota Growers to
organize along lines identical to those
now being followed in Minnesota. BY
the time the Moorhead meeting is
held, this movement is expected tc
have made sufficient Roadway as tt
warrant definite steps toward actua,
organization.
The Minnesota campaign is pro-
crossing satisfactorily, according to
S. G. Rpbinow, state campaign man.
ager. eve have been especially sue
cessfM in the Red River Valley" he
says. Meetings have been we'll at
tended and the proportion of farm
ers who have signed the 5-year con-
tract has been unusually high. The
membership passed the 1OOO-mark
late in July"