Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-08 | Page 2 | Farmers Talk Direct Buying

FARMERS TALK j DiRECTBUYING CHICAGO. Nov 4. Co-opt rutive I purchase Of fmrn supplies by farmers I (business orgsmlcatlons win be taken up 'by the frLruiers' SatlonSI Grain Dsal4 era association at a convention hero I December I and :j The other major 1 nubje.it will be the co-operative selling j , ot gritin. I According to national hesdquat !en I of the a.HSOClatton lieic, ther. are JC'lO' farmera' co-operative elevators in the countiT, representing an Investment of 1 1 00,000,000, They are said to handle; ujiiiuallv 1,000,000,000 bushels of grain. Their purchases of supplies In a rear are sstimatsd at $250,000, 1. "These elovators constitute the biggest huslticss organisation of farmers farm-ers in the world." association head' quarter said today, "it is hoped to group purchase so as to take the entire en-tire output Of lactoriea Ohio Is the first Btate to form a collective purchasing compuny. and I Charles lAtchaw of Doflanco is sc.hed-j uled to tell of what is sooompliahed I today A company ineoriorutd JlOoiuO" bus been in operation In Ohio since tl r first of last July. Practical propositions submitted by manufaoturers will be reported Bis tabilsbraent of a nutionai wholesale buying aasoclation will be the subject of a committee report, a committee on this subject having been named at the Man h meeting of the asoclatlon I he Farmers' Union Kxchungc of Nebraska Nebras-ka and the Wisconsin Eciity Purchasing Purchas-ing BSSOOlatlOn Will be heard from. Co-operative wholesale efforts, terminal ter-minal grain marketing and bonding and Insurance will be other subjects I before the convention. Anion" the speakers scheduled are, Harold O. Powell, mnnsger of the Clt-jrus Clt-jrus Fruit firowers association of 'al!-fornla 'al!-fornla Thomas Orerar, head Of 'he Cans d I n Ornln Growers compan md Secretary K T. Meredith of the department depart-ment of agriculture. Tills Is the first national convention of the kind lo be hld by tho association associa-tion Heretofore Its conventions have ; eoniposcd Of two delegates from e.ich state, but next month this linu'.i tlon Will be taken off. oo