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Show MILLIONS OF i BUSHELS OF j WHEAT P00LE0 Farmers of Grain Growing States Start Operations on May First I OiP'AG"'. Mar. h 2"- With on iina.-, iina.-, 00U bushels of wheal already under contract on a 100 per cent pooling basis, the. iuerlcun Wheat Growers,' Hssociated tentatively organized at ' Kansas City earlier In the month, ex-pects ex-pects to begin operations by May , according to V. C. Lunsdon. Sjiina.i I Kan., one of a committee of three ; meeting here to submit organization! ! plana to AajgonjSapiro of San Francisco. I general counsel. ! The pla,ns as finally agreed upir. here. wilF be referred back to eac.i j j state unit represented In the organic. 1-I I Hon -for approval with each state ,y 'name delegates to a general ratlflca- ' tinii mee-.inj; at Len er to be held r.ot I 1 later than April 15. The committee includes George IS. I Jewell. I'ortland Ore., general man-1 : ager of (he Northwest Wheat Growers' 1 association, and Aaron Sapiro. San j Francisco. The stales concerned are, Kansas. Oklahoma! Texas, North Da-I Da-I koto, brjs-ka, Colorado. Montana, , W ashington. Oregon and Idaho. Significance was attached In some quarters to the fact that the United States Grain Grow-ers, Inc., another j co-operative grain marketing organiza- I tion will hold Its first annual conven-i tion here tomorrow, but whether anv move toward a union was in prospect ' w as not indicated. The marketing body, formed by rep-i ! reseptatlves of the Northwest Wheat' Growers Associated. which has 32,-1 oftu 000 bushels of whnai under con-1 tract In Idaho. Oregon Washington! and Montana, and of the National Wheal Growers' association, provides! I fur "the orderly marketing of grain I i under the direction of the growers or! I then- representative-. ' Mr. Lansdohl .said. The organisation plans to regu-l j late the flow of wheat to the market; I and to store suvpius against demand. The Pacific Northwest, in which the , Northwest Wheat Growers Associated , already Is In operation, will compose of one zone, providing an outlet 11 I wheat through the coast ports. The' headquarters, 1 al Portland, ore. with! , George c. Jewett. one of ihe committee I meeting here, as general manager Kansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota Da-kota growers have incorporated under' I the 100 per cent pooling plan, while organisations are bc-ine perfected In Nebraska. Texas and Colorado. Mr. I : Iindson said. |