30 FARMERS' UNION AND FEDERATION 



wheat could be given weekly or monthly through the bul- 

 letin to the wheat growers. The union's price-making 

 boards would partly base the yearly minimum price on this 

 expert knowledge of world conditions. Their advisory board 

 would give the growers expert advice on the raising, care of? 

 storage, when and what amount to deliver, and other valu- 

 able information. It would be a great consolation and ad- 

 vantage to the growers to have this information and advice 

 from their own officers, knowing they could rely on it. 



Another advantage in unionizing would be the ability to 

 send agents to the peoples who do not eat wheat bread, to 

 establish instruction schools in the milling of wheat and 

 making and baking of the flour into its many varieties of 

 edibles to increase the demand for wheat. 



Wheat producers : Wouldn't it be a good plan for you to 

 unionize so you could attend to your own business of pric- 

 ing and marketing your wheat through your own agencies? 

 There is fifty to one hundred per cent more wages in it for 

 you than to leave this most important business to others to 

 attend to. 



The present system of farmers' union elevators can only 

 follow the wheat price up or down, but can do nothing to 

 control the national or international wheat market. That 

 is left for the speculators on the boards of trade to do. This 

 plan of unionizing to adopt the minimum price system is to 

 take over the control of the market. 



Aid "Stay on the Farm" Slogan. 



People may shout the slogan "Stay on the farm" until 

 they burst their wind-pipes, but until the wheat growers 

 unionize to enable them to set and obtain a price that will 

 return as good wages and interest on investments as city 

 industries pay, it will be in vain. Money will go where it 

 will be safest and get the best returns. The smartest sons 

 and daughters will continue to go to the cities where wages 



