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Show FARMERS' CHAIN PLANS STUDIED Scheme to Sell Co-operatively Their Own Grain Will Be Drawn Up WASHINGTON. Sept in The Amerieau Kami Runau feileratlon an-nounced an-nounced , Bterday the personnel of the committee of 17 appointed by l'rcsl-dent l'rcsl-dent J. K. Howard to work out a flan for co-operation marketing of the American grain crop. Methods of cooperating co-operating piain elevator associations In the middle west and of the Kral:i ralssri of Western Canada will he studied, as well as the system used in similar marketing enterpriser by fruit growers and other producers, the federation fed-eration s.nld, estimating that It would rciuire two years of prepa rat ion before be-fore a co-operative plan for the grain crop could be put in action. PROMINENT MEN The committee Includes Oeorge Livingston, Liv-ingston, chief of the United States bureau of markets; Dr. H. J. Waters, Kansas City: c. H. Qustafsop, president presi-dent Nebraska Farmers' I'nlon; William Wil-liam i. Kokhardt, Illinois state farm bureau; C. V. Gregory, selected by the American Agricultural Editors association; associa-tion; J, M. Anderson. Equity Co-opera-ilve Exchange, St Paul, Minn.; P. E Powell, Missouri Farmers' Grain Dealers' Deal-ers' 'association. C. A. Bingham. Michigan State Farm Bureau; J. C. :.les. Kansas Equity Union; Dr. E. F. Ladfl, North Dakota. Agricultural College Col-lege and Republlcan-Non-Partlsai nomlr.ee for senator in North Dakota, I. J. Tabor, master. Ohio state fringe; Clifford Thorne. Chicago, counsel for shippers organizations, Chicago; h. R Uslsch. Farmers' National Na-tional Grain Dealers' association. Minnesota, Min-nesota, A. L. Middleton, Eagie Grove, Iowa, and R. Snyder. Kansas state farm bureau. NO PRICE FIXING. I desire emphatically to deny." said President Howard, that any policy pol-icy or plan Involving price fixing has been decided upon by tho American Farm Bureau federation or any com-mlttee com-mlttee appointed by it. We desire merely to evolve a marketing system which will eliminate useless handling costs, unnecessary selling expenses, ruinous price fluctuation due to market mar-ket juggling anil speculation and to so co-ordinate supply and demand as to Insure that on the one hand the producer pro-ducer receives the cost of production plus a reasonable and living profit and on the other hand the possible mark-up actual costs." |