Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front cover**) In Chicago last week the Federal Farm Board bore its first fruit?a 20 million dollar grain marketing corporation. Still minus a wheat member and without Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde who was kept away by many another official duty, the Board journeyed westward from Washington to meet 52 officials of farmers' grain elevators, cooperatives, pools and marketing agencies, representative of 650,000 grain-growers.' At the Sherman Hotel behind closed doors a harmony meeting was held from which Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa was politely ushered out despite his political plea of representing "all farmers...
...executive in coopera- tive marketing," named the new creation ?Farmers' National Grain Corp. Organized grain groups will subscribe to its stock, elect its directors and officials The corporation, thus privately owned, will buy grain from its members, sell it nationally to the best advantage. To it the Federal Farm Board will make operating advances from its $500,000,000 loan fund...
Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
...Baton Rouge. With farm relief at least started in the grain belt, the Board traveled south to Baton Rouge, there to attend a meeting of the American Institute of Cooperation, composed of executives in all lines of farm selling agencies. Each member of the Board had been previously invited to attend in his private capacity as an executive of a cooperative; now all went officially as Board members to discuss technical problems, to make helpful contacts, to gather opinions...
...Baton Rouge the Board was joined by Secretary Hyde, its ex-officio member, who came with a well-prepared address on "The Government's Policy Toward the Cooperative Movement." What the Farm Board was about to undertake he called "a great adventure on a new frontier...