Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1920 — FARMER TO RULE GRAIN MARKETS [ARTICLE]

FARMER TO RULE GRAIN MARKETS

PLAN GIANT’COMBINE TO HANDLE PRODUCTS OVER k COUNTRY. Kansas Ci£y, Mo., April 22.— Representatives of virtually every wheat raising community in the Unfted , States, attending here the annual, convention of the National Wheat Growers’ association, toriighj voted unanimously to form a huge combine for the control of the cereal products of. the nation. Agricultural "experts' in attendance said the organization would be'the‘largest combine of fanners every attempted. ‘.. ' 'V < Eliminatioii of the middleman is one of the first purposes enumerated in the resolution embracing the association’s action, which was stated to _be necessary “in order to increase the producers’ emolument to a fair profit and at the same time reduce the high cost of living.’* Action I» Unanimouc. The plan for the combine was included in the report, of a committee on the marketing of cereal products. The resolution accompanying it, re-ducing the report to action, was adopted unanimously - and a committee of seven was appointed to outline the organization, s The tentative plan provides jfor local co-operative organizations of cereal growers, centering in cooperative marketing associations Withi headquarters in the market centers. Stock in the terming marketing association? will be limited to the fanfiers joined in the local co-operative associations. To Market All Farm Product*. District or terminal marketing organizations in turn will be merged into a national marketing association. The district and national organizations are intended as the channels through which all products of America’s farms will reach the ultimate consumer. The plans provide also for co-op-erative Hour and cereal milling associations. The initial meeting of the na-tion-wide combine will be announced at the closing session of the contention tomorrow. The seven fnembers of the committee are: Maurice McAuliffe, Salina, Kas.; John Havenkost, Nebraska; C* H. Hyde, Oklahoma; A. V. Swift, Oregon; A. D. Cboss, Washington;'J. W. B.atcheller, South Dakota, and George Baker, lowa.

Start Made Ip Illinois. The new marketing department of the Illinois Agricultural association is now at work on the program, with .William G. Eckhardt, - for eight years farm advisor of DeKalb county, as director. The executive committee of the farmers’ state association, representing more than 60,000 farmers, has appropriated $65,000, whicn will be used to start the work, this year. . As a result of the committee’s conference with the Illinois Farmers and Grain Dealers’ association about ten men will be sent outover the state to establish co-opera-tive grain elevators and work with the 600 farmers’ co-operative elevators that already are in existence. From Field to Consumer, The farmers will join in handling all steps in the marketing of their grain from the time it leaves their bins until it reaches the consumer. They are interested in the consumers’ side of the question because they represent one-third of the consumers in the United States. / A clearing house, to function as a brokerage house, connecting the farmer and the consumer by the line of least resistance, will be established as soon as enough elevators are organized to, warrant its success; Hoover Applaud* Grain Board New York, April 22.—(Special) —Commendation, for Julius H. Barnes, who will retire as president of the United States Grain corporation on May 31, was expressed this evening 'by Herbert C. Hoover at a\dinner in Mr. Barnes’ honor at the Hotel Commodore. Had the board not fixed the price of wheat—s2.2o a bushel was that set for the 1917 crop—the fanner, he gaid could have, obtained $5 a bushel, which “we would have paid for fifty times over in bloodshed in the industrial cities, in increased prices sos other commodities, and in the prolongation of the war.”