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Show TSRIRS ADOPT : rMET PLAN ' Stormy Debate Follows Presentation Pres-entation of Resolution at Chicago Meeting CHICAGO, July 24 A resolution Indorsing In-dorsing appointment of a committee to determine ways and means of organizing organiz-ing a co-operative plan for marketing! I grain and livestock to the Lest Interests Inter-ests of producer and consumer was adopted todav by the American Farm Bureau federation. The resolution recommends that Chairman J. K. Howard, president ofi the bureau, appoint a commute of j soentecn which shall devlso a plan,' subject to the approval of all Interested Inter-ested for co-operative marketing through one or more central organisations. organisa-tions. Another resolution endorsing the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep waterway as an aid to marketing was' also adopted. A stormy debate followed presentation presen-tation of the co-operative marketing The resolutions were drawn by C. I M. GusUiffsen, Lincoln, Neb.; Benjamin Ben-jamin Drake, Minneapolis, Minn., A L. Middleton. Eagle Groe la . J. C Baylor, Clssna, Park. Ill , and B. Need-'bam. Need-'bam. Lane, Kan. The grain committee, which w ill bo appointed In the near luture, by J. R. Howard, president of the federation, federa-tion, will be a permanent body with headquarters In Chicago It will In ivestlgate existing plans of co-opera I the marketing as well as suggest 'new plans. Members of the committee commit-tee will comprise leading grain pro-ducers. pro-ducers. grain elevator men and oth ers. RESOLUTION ADOPTED A resolution was adopted directing .that efforts be made by the tarm 'bureau to obtain cars to move crops lit also was recommended that freight problems be icferred to the federation federa-tion to obtain uniform freight rates and equal facilities for all farmers. The federal trade commission was I congratulated for "its substantial work in the east" and the support of the federation was pledged to that organization. Another resolution indorsed in-dorsed deep waterway projects. AFTER FREIGHT CARS Efforts of the lederation to obtain freight cars were reported by Mr Howard, 'in January the federation sent a delegation to Washington to learn whether wo could obtain more cars." he said. "We were advised that there existed a shortage of ap- I proximately 100,000 cars and that about 120,000 moro needed repairs. We wero told that the best we could hope to obtain in the way of freight can was about sixty per cent of normal equipment " Representatives ot the United States Grain Growers' association and of the National Board of Farm Or- ganizations. who attended the meetings meet-ings here announced that a conven tion of those organizations would be held at Columbus, Ohio, probably August. |