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Show WSTORiBAS 10 STRIKEOFFARMERS AGRICULTURAL BOARD SECRETARY SECRE-TARY SAYS NO; GROWERS' OFFICIAL SAYS YES. Farmers of Southwest Said to Bo Holding Their Wheat From the Market Until a Basic Price of $3 a Bushel is Reached. Kansas (.'ity Whether farmers of tliu southwest are cibeying u strike call issued recently liy tin; Wheat Growers' iissiiclatlim In the form of a proclamation proclama-tion calling upon Its members In several sev-eral unites t withhold their wheat Xn.m the market until u basic price of $:i u bushel whs readied can not be ascertained liere. Reports from some grain market centers attributed decreases in the wheat supply received and an increase In price to the proclamation. No widespread wide-spread curtailment of wheat offerings was reflected Thursday in the grain .markets of the southwest, grain men mid. J. C. Mohler, secretary of the Kansas Kan-sas board of agriculture, declared there was no farmrs' "strike" in that state and said that probably only a minority of the grain growers in Kansas would back the movement. On the other hand, W. II. McGreevy of Wichita, Kan., secretary of the Wheat Growers' association, declared the "strike" was in effect and that the farmers are in the light to stay. Wheat will go to .$;! per bushel within with-in ninety days, duo to the refusal of the association members to sell, the secretary predicted prior to receipt of the news that the market in Chicago had stiffened, due to a falling off in deliveries. Mr. McGreevy stated that he expected no Increase for thirty days, by which time the farmers will have made their strike felt. Sixty days more will see the goal of $3 wheat attained, at-tained, he said. |