MRS. MOORE S SUGGESTIONS. 97 



Farmers Club, embodying suggestions, &quot; how to move the 

 crop:&quot; 



By means of an agency under the control of the California Farm 

 ers Union, to be constituted in the following manner: 



1st. The officers of the California Farmer s Union to be a Board 

 of Directors, to meet quarterly or oftener, and pass upon all mat 

 ters pertaining to the agency, to have free access to the books at all 

 times, etc., call meetings, etc. 



2d. The agency to consist of three departments. (1) Financial. 

 A manager to arrange sales and all money matters at home and 

 abroad; to pay all transportation and other expenses in shipping 

 the crop, and to have the general oversight of all the other depart 

 ments. (2) Transportation. A man to attend to the receiving and 

 receipting for the wheat, and bringing to shipping ports, making 

 terms with railroads and vessels for carrying. (3) Shipping. A 

 man to attend to the loading and storing, arranging the cargoes to 

 the best advantage for sale. These three to constitute an Advisory 

 Board, with power to appoint clerks and agents, and subject to the 

 Board of Directors. 



3d. An agency in London under the control of the Advisory 

 Board, to make sales by means of telegrams and letters. 



4th. Actual cost of transportation from places of production to 

 points of shipment and other expenses, to be charged against wheat 

 of each farmer, and to be deducted with interest from his propor 

 tionate amount of wheat sales. 



5th. The Advisory Board to decide relative value of each farm 

 er s wheat at time of its receipt, according to relative value in the 

 English market at the time. (This refers to different qualities as 

 the difference between coast and other wheat.) There to be but 

 two discriminating clauses against any farmers wheat, viz : relative 

 cost of transportation to shipping point, and relative quality of 

 wheat. 



6th. Money to be advanced by agency to the farmers on, before 

 or after receipt of wheat, according to percentage that may be 

 agreed upon by Board of Directors, say up to ninety per cent, of its 

 value at time of reception, and balance to be paid him on the yearly 

 settlement of the whole crop, say in June. 



7th. The yearly average of prices obtained for whole crop, to be 

 determined say in June, or earlier if possible, and each farmer 

 credited up at sale of same, and finally settled with and paid in 

 full . This settlement would involve all the elements of expenses 

 and profits in the business of the year. Such an agency would 

 save in all shipments the five per cent, on amount of freight, and in 

 many cases the seven per cent, paid by the ships to the parties 

 chartering. For instance, a vessel of 1,500 tons at 4 per ton for 

 freight, would pay five per cent., $1,500 commission, and paid here 

 as soon as loaded. This arrangement would save here for selling 

 one per cent., and in England two to three and one half per cent. 



Of course the farmers must furnish the business credit of the 

 agency. Each club must decide the relative responsibility of its 

 members, and enter into written obligations to meet this, The 



