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experiment high hopes are entertained about 

 these ventures. Their practical results are 

 still to be seen. Those in command of them 

 seem to be fairly well informed as to the diffi- 

 culties they are likely to confront, for it is 

 said that to forestall the chance of an organ- 

 ized boycott against them in the Eastern 

 markets they have arranged to create their 

 own selling agencies. 



At all these mills the milling values of wheat 

 will be the only grades recognized. 



If the present plans are carried out, the new 

 system will have another inestimable advan- 

 tage in the fact that the farmer will not be 

 obliged to sell his wheat, as at present, when 

 the price is the lowest. The state elevators 

 will take his wheat, store it, and issue him 

 a bill upon it, subject to the necessary insur- 

 ance and other charges and margins, and the 

 state bank will let him have money on this 

 bill, which will be to him the equivalent of 

 cash, and yet allow him to take advantage of 

 a subsequent rise in the market. 



This was the outlook, nine months after the 

 League had received at the referendum of 

 1919 its final mandate from the people to go 

 ahead with its reforms. 



State hail insurance was in full and suc- 

 cessful operation. For the first season about 

 eight million acres were insured, and on these 

 the farmers saved $3,150,000 compared with 



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