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Show WHEAT GROWERS i act nl mm WICHITA. Kan , Dee. 23. The 1 Wheal rowers association of America, Ameri-ca, which has been conducting a cam-pa cam-pa igp to Induce growers to withhold their wheat from the market until pi cea are higher, plans to have mid-Westeni mid-Westeni states BO well organized wlth-I wlth-I in tho next six months that the growers grow-ers will be able to control the price-paid price-paid for the 1921 wheat crop, according accord-ing to Y. H. McGreeVy, secretary and treasurer. The association now has a member- ' ship of approximately 100.000 In the states of Texas. Oklahoma, Kansas j and Nebraska, according to Mr. Mc-Greevy. Mc-Greevy. who has his headquarters here. The organization will he ex-tended, ex-tended, he caid. to Minnesota. North Dakota and South Dakota. "The purpose of the National ! "Wheat Growers association Is to control con-trol the distribution and marketing ' of wheat through financial and selling agencies of Its own selection at a price baaed upon cost, plus a fair and rea-1 sonable profit," said Secretary Mc-Greovy. Mc-Greovy. "Not only the wheat growers Of our association but the wheat growers In general are refusing to sell any wheat at present prices except In oases win re financial conditions force tho sale. For more than thirty days we have withheld our wheat from the market until now a largo number of' flour mills are Idle and tho local and I terminal elevators are nearly empty, j The wheat grower feels that he hasj 1 practically accomplished what seemed 1 at first impossible, and Is now en- ( couraged to continue withholding his 1 wheat from market In order that a prlco which Is fair and Just shall be 1 paid him for his labor and money invested." in-vested." Mr McGreevy objects to the use of the term "wheat strike" in referring , to the action of the wheat growers. I "Our growers are riot striking as is commonly meant by the term," he s;i 11 ""o are still sowing and attending at-tending to tho many arduous duties of the farm. .We are only holding our wheat to bo marketed at any time tho producer may think it at a fair price " The organization was formed about a year and a half ago In southern Kansas nnd northern Oklahoma Mr. ! A. Slaughter of Manchester, Okla., was the originator and early promoter. pro-moter. According to its promoters Us growth In the first six months was slow but In the last few months it has h. en rapid until the membership has spread to every wheat growing county in the four states organized. The four states now organized t Nebraska. Ne-braska. Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas), in which a membership of 100.000 is claimed, have 220,804 wheat growers, according to Kansas Hoard of agriculture statistics. |