The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-06
ThOresen in Talk
Pledges Farm Support
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able to successfully organize to pro
mote their own interest. They hav
been unable to organize sufficiently
! to sell their products to the best ad
vantage. AS consequence the
take what they are offerel for thei
products and pay what is asked TO
what they buy"
Marketing Problem
It was this failure of cooperation
to solve the farmers problems
Thoresen said, which led "far
sighted men and women of thi
state, some years ago, to evolve on
state marketing program which ha
been termed the industrial program
the purpose and aim of which wa
to help farmers through more O.
less compulsory cooperation unde1
state control: to provide reasonable
safe and orderly marketing bf ouI
products"
Declaring the primary and fun
damental part of this program is the
terminal market at Grand Forks,
Thoresen said the Bank Of NORTH
Dakota and state hail insurance are
other integral parts designed e
protect the farmer against high In
terest rates and disastrous hal
losses.
This system may not be perfect
hut it is at least an attempt to bet
ter conditions and if anyone has &
better plan l am certain the people
:. of North Dakota will give his plar
respectful attention" Thoresen said
"But to criticize that which is in
tended as a solution without offer
ing a better plan is neither intelli.
gent nor honest
Wheat Situation
Through the efforts of the state
mill and elevator and the termina
at Grand Forks, Thoresen said
North Dakota wheat has regainec
its identity as wheat of peculiarly
high quality and worthy Of pre-
MUM on the market. North Da-
kota wheat was being used for mix
ing purposes to raise the standard
of inferior qualities of grain.
Since North Dakota produces
1OO,OOO,OOO bushels Of wheat in q
normal year and the state mill car
grind only about five and hall
million bushels, it is plain, Thoreser
said, that 'the primary purpose OF
the mill and elevator at Crane
Forks is not to grind all the wheat
in North Dakota into flour for the
purpose of selling flour as such. The
principal function of our mill anc
elevator is that Of an advertising
and demonstrating medium for the
purpose Of creating demand fol
our hard spring wheat. We are only
in the milling business to demon.
strate what our hard spring wheat
will do when ground into flour. We
have succeeded beyond ell expecta.
tions in convincing the people
this country that we have supe'
rior quality.
People Impatient
"Here in North Dakota, however
the people have become impatient
because faster strides have not beer
made in the short period during
which we have operated this insti'
tuition. They fail to take into con.
sideration the fact that when the
mill and elevator was established
there was no business machinery
with which to operate"
Discussing the operations OF thu
mill and the task Of creating a de
mand for North Dakota wheat
Thoresen said considerable opposi
ton has been encountered iron
our own people" Agitation to dis
card the marketing program has hao
an effect upoa the territory II
which products Of the mill are be-
ing sold and patience is necessary
to overcome these obstacles
In a direct compliment to The
Sorlie administration Thoresen sad
II am happy to say, however, thai
under the present administration We
have made wonderful strides and il
seems as though now all opposition
of any consequence has disappeared
and both the people here and abroad
are accepting our products at their
real worth and from now on it would
appear that the future is bright
Success Assured
Averring that the mill makes ane
sells flour only as a means Of ad
vertising North Dakota wheat
Thoresen said success in this en-
deavor now is assured. Some flour
has been sold in the east at low
prices, he said, in order to get larg,
flour consumers to try it. Man!
concerns who have tried the NORTH
Dakota product, he said, now blu.
it at the regular price and ar
steady customers. One firm which
also operates a small mill bough
$4,000 bushels Of North Dakot;
wheat this spring because the,
wanted the quality, he said. TIL
main problem, he said, has been t.
establish business and very it'll
trouble is experienced in holding tn
business after it is once obtained.
The campaign of education i
slowly convincing flour users tina
the product made from North Da
kota wheat is best, Thoresen said
land when the trade is convinced
that we are reliable, dependable
established institution we will hav'
little difficulty in selling the com
plete output Of our mill in Crane
Forks.
Terminal Market
"But this alone is not the whole
problem. The purpose Of selling
this flour is, as stated before, tt
advertise our high grade sprinf
wheat. It would do very little goot
to advertise its quality if we hat
no means whereby we might place
this hard spring wheat as such up
on the market. If the practice is K
be continued in the future, as il
the past, by the milling and grair
trade generally, to use our wheat al
q mixer for the purpose Of raising
the quality Of other wheats, ther
our advertising will be Of littl'
avail"
To further promote the sale 0.
North Dakota grain as a definit,
commodity, Thoresen said, the term