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Show f FARMERS' ORGANIZATION . NEEDED. I The present high price of grain ' show tin? necessity for a farmers' organization or-ganization that we have been advo-i advo-i eating for some time. It Isn't the farmers who are getting $2. CO and i 2.65 for their wheat and oats. They sold their last fall for about $1.25 i and It is the man be sold it to that Is selling It now for twice that, or at 1 least some middle man. Why shouldn't the farmer get this In i creased price! Simply because he isn't organized. He work a a unit instead of co-operating with hi ' oeighbur. Almost every other In- dnstry I organized but the farmer, w bo comprises over 3i per cent of the producers of the country, I still unorganized, and Is exploited by mid die men, commlstilon men and the whole raft of triiHts. He Is the chief sufferer from the Imposition of the tariff, without getting a particle of benefit from It. Vet he ha got the remedy lu bis own hands. He produces pro-duces the food of the country, a prime necessity, and while the cost of food to the consumer ha gone , up, the firmer get little benefit from ll. The 'enefit goes to the middle men who ::. prod'iewa ai. U..Ttie jxiucty j In an association of farmer which shall be able to hold the farmer' grain, alfalfa seed and perhaps other products until the market I right and then sell It direct In carload lots to the final buyer. This way of peddling ped-dling It around to local buyers a few hundred bushels at a time leaves the farmer entirely helpless. Of course most farmers have to sell immediately immediate-ly alter harvest to raise money. Hut if the farmers were organized Into an incorporated association with an elevator In which was stored several thousand bushel of grain he would be In a position to borrow what money be needed at a low rate of Interest Irom the association. He wouldn't have to sell until the market was light. He would get llie benefit of the high prices for grain that come almost every spring. The editor I gathering data about the method of operating and organi ing such associations and when we get sufficient information we will lay It belore the farmei and see It tlx are ready for It. We believe It only need-, some one to take the initiative, am' we think It 1 a good work for tin Chronicle to take up. Think It over and talk It up with your neighbors. I We will go Into the matter more full) 1 in future Issues of the paper. I |
