The Bozeman courier., February 04, 1927, Page PAGE SIXTEEN, Image 16

About The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954

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ORGANIZED MARKETING ONLY SOLUTION
FOR PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN FARMER
Farmers Must Become "Class Conscious" and Follow Example
of Labor If They Would Better
Their Condition
That the individual farmer, acting
ÉPoue, cannot hope to better the prices
for his products, but that price ad
vance and stabilization can come
<*nly through organization and or
ganized marketing is the gist of a
message which J. R. Cotton of Wau
frsy, S. D., wishes to get to the farm
ers of the Gallatin valley.
Mr. Cotton has been in Bozeman
rfnee Christmas visiting his daugh
ter. Miss Lucetta Cotton, who is a
•ee md-year student at Montana State
He has for years been in
renege,
t nsely interested in farming and its
f^rcblems because he is a practical
farmer and has experienced the sue
«f^ses and the reverses that fall to
the lot of a tiller of the soil.
The farmer's problems can be
solved in the same way that labor
hi& solved and is solving its prob
lems, declares Mr. Cotton, and in no
ur.ber way. He believes the Farmers'
union, which he describes as the "one
fcig union", is the vehicle that prom
to enable the farmers of the
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^rnized and stable basis as pro
ducers, distributors, and financiers.
As one of the original sponsors of
tfce Farmers' Union, Mr. Cotton has
»pen its membership- grow from a
r ere handful to more than 1,000,000,
«rd is enthusiastic over its possibil
ities. In a communication given The
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rheumatism or sprains, as it is abso
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Courier for publication he says;
To the farmers of the Gallatin va!
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From one who knows, being a dirt
farmer for sixty years, I will relate
the conditions and the remedies, which
are as follows;
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"The condition of the farmers may
be briefly stated: The farmers buy
supplies on the basis of a fixed price.
The manufacturer or merchant prices
goods on the basis of cost of pro
duction, handling and profit. All
business is operated on that prin
ciple. The farmer sells the commodi
ties which he produces at a fixed
price also, but th e farmer does not
fix that price,
The price which the
farmer is paid for his product is de
termined by a number of elementary
things, among which are: First, sup
ply of commodities with reference to
the demand; second, speculation;
third, cost of transportation from
supply to demand, and fourth, cost
of handling,
"The individual farmer does not
control or regulate, and cannot con
trol or regulate any of these elements.
Therefore, the individual farmer can
not fix a price, and the price which
the farmer does receive bears no ref
erence, or at least a very remote one,
to the cost of production of commod
ities grown on the farm.
Possessing no power individually
to fix a price on his products, the in
dividual farmer, taken in terms of
the average, is carrying on his indus
try at a loss. In other words, the
average farmer is forced to sell be
low the cost of production. He has
to throw in his labor, his capital or
his depreciation on machinery, build
ings, improvements, etc. Farm ac
counting in terms of the average
farmer shows that the income from
the average farm does not equal the
expense of operating the farm. If
there be charged against the farm
interest on capital, depreciation on
improvements and machinery, and
wages to the farmer, without the
ability to fix a price with reference
to the cost of production, the farming
business cannot be made to pay.
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"It needs no argument to prove that
the individual farmer acting alone
cannot fix prices. Price fixing can
come only by organization and or
ganized marketing.
Labor organized to fix wages by
means of collective bargaining. Labor
succeeded through trade unions in do
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Mrs. Frank Chase, a Quaker, is the
sheriff of Kiowa county, Kan., the
first woman to hold that position in
the state,
sheriff for four years and as he could
not legally succeed himself the voters
asked her to run for the office and
elected her. She is the mother of four
children.
Her husband had been
Sound Advice
"Say, Willie, how many sister« have
you?"
"Three, but Hazel picked you, so
don't waste any time on the twins."
ing what it set out to do. The farm
er's problem can be solved in the
same way that labor solved and
is solving its problem.. That is by
organization and organized market
ing. The Farmers Union is a class
organization confining its member
ship to farmers only. Its ultimate
aim is price fixing through collective
bargaining. To that end the Farm
ers Union has set up marketing m.i
chinery through which its members
expect to control ultimately suffic
ient volume of livestock, grain and
produce to bargain on the matter of
price.
For example, the Farmers Union
has sales agencies on 10 primary
livestock markets, and is handling a
very considerable percentage of live
stock marketed. It has grain sales
agencies on four grain markets. It
is likewise handling cotton, butter,
eggs and poultry.
"It has entered the insurance and
banking field in order to provide
credit needs both to its members and
its cooperatives. The Farmers Union,
therefore, has a complete program of
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cooperative marketing and also <jpop
erative buying. These agencies
bring its members large savings and
benefits.
But the Farmers Union is not
content to stop with such benefits.
It is pushing on with the organiza
tion toward its ultimate goal, which
is 'collective bargaining by group or
ganisation.'
Already having organized in 10
different states—North and South
Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,,, Illin
ois, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and
Texas—it is pushing forward to Mon
tana and other states. Having at
the present time over a million mem
bers, this organization is known as
the "one big union," a class-conscious
body consisting of dirt-farmers only,
and will in a short time revolutionize
the farming industry.
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BRIGHT SPOTS FOR
MONTANA FARMERS
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mand for our surplus of these pro
ducts.
Wheat and Feed
For hard spring and durum wheat,
nationally, growers can scarcely ex
pect to receive returns for the 1927
crod similar to those which have
prevailed for the 1926 crop, especially
if production should be materially in
creased.
In the case of Montana with feed
crops and other cash crops not offer
ing any particular advantage as al
ternative crops for wheat and with
present moisture conditions favoring
some further increase in spring
wheat acreage, it is not unlikely that
spring wheat will remain the first
choice over alternative crops. Bet
ter quality of Montana wheat offsets
to a large extent freight rates in th«
eastern half of the spring wheat belt,
and together with a better average
yield per acre than in the Dakotas,
places Montana growers in a some
what stronger position than these
areas.' Unless later developments
between now and seeding time, change
materially, this would not appear to
be a year wherein Montana wheat
growers are justified in making any
great expansion of spring, wheat
acreage, on price prospect alone.
In case of flax, prices for the 1927
crop are not expected to be higher
than at present. With average
yields, flax acreage however, in Mon
tana, could be increased to some ad
vantage in sections adapted to ade
quate yields of this crop.
Miscellaneous Crops
Potato growers nationally are
warned to guard against the danger
of over-planting and to keep close
watch on acreages being planted in
competing states. In Montana, cer
tified seed acreage may safely be in
creased. A better guide to plans of
Montana growers of table stock this
year will be afforded, by the March
1 planting intentions of growers in
states competing with Montana. This
report will be issued the latter part
of March.
Bean acreage nationally should be
reduced below last year's area to pre
vent an excessive supply, varying
with' the type of bean grown. In
Montana where the Great Northern
Bean is grown, growers should watch
carefully, the intentions of bean acre
age in states competing with Mon
tana. An effort will be made by this
office to secure later information
from these competing states for Mon
tana growers.
FALSE ADVERTISING
Correspondence schools which mis
lead the public through false and
fraudulent advertising and publishers
who print such advertising are to be
proceeded against by the federal trade
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United States 350 private correspond
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enrolled students, paying more than
$70,000,000 annually in tuition. While
some of these schools have a real
place in our civilization many of them
are "fakes" and it is alleged are rob
bing ambitious young men and women
of not less than $35,000,000 each
year.
Hereafter every
correspondence
school guilty of false and fraudulent
practices, and every publisher who
assists in this fraud by publishing
these advertisements, and every ad
vertising agency that handles these
advertisements, is going to be prose
cuted.
DEATH SUMMONS
MRS. J. P. MARTIN
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and admiring friends among her
neighbors and the townspeople, to
whom her death brought sincere sor
row and regret.
Daughter's Devotion
Perhaps one of the most beautiful
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phases of Mrs. Martin's long and use
ful life was the devotion shown to her
by one of her daughters, Miss Maude
Martin, deputy postmaster here. For
many years Miss Martin, by her ten
der, unremitting care and affection,
had brought light and joy into her
mother's life and eased the burdens of
advancing age—a devotion that was
unostentatious and sincere and that
was known only to intimate friends
of the family. Especially in her last
illness did Mrs. Martin gain comfort
and the courage to endure her suffer
ings bravely from the love, cheerful
ness and aid so spontaneously given
by her daughter, a devotion that is
described by one of Mrs. Martin's
friends as "the most beautiful thing
I ever saw."
Besides this daughter, Mrs. Martin
is survived by five other children—
three daughters, Mrs. Thomas Lewis
of Berkeley, Calif.; Mrs. D. W. Pitts
of Tampa, Fla., and Mrs. S. A. Millis
of Tulsa, Okla., and two sons. ' ' i
Martin of Seattle and Louis Murtin
of Ketchikan, Alaska. Ten p v "nd
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