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Excerpt from U. S. Grain Growers, Inc: A Farmer-Owned, Nonstock, Non-Profit Assocation to Handle and Sell Grain at Cost for Its Farmer Members On July 23rd and 24th, 1920, for the first time in the history of organized agriculture, a truly representative group of grain growing farmers from all different farmers' organizations, and from all parts of the United States met in a national get-together marketing conference in Chicago. Time and again some farmer leader with a vision had made an attempt to unify the efforts of different cooperative farmers' organizations. And time and again, the aims of such a cooperative movement had been defeated. Selfish organizational purposes or personal ambition on the part of leadership have made difficult the progress of national cooperation. It is fortunate for agricultural cooperation in America that the five hundred men in that conference were broad-gauged men. They were men who could see beyond the local cooperative elevator, the district market terminal or even state and national associations of cooperative elevators. Many of them were men who had pioneered in the establishment of cooperative elevators and bore the brunt of the fights made by boards of trade, commission companies and line elevators, until the local cooperative elevator has become an established fact, operating on a strictly business basis, contributing to the prosperity of the local farming community and furnishing a fertile field for the development of agricultural cooperation. There were also men in that conference who had had a part in the attempts made by farmers' cooperative associations to enter the central grain markets and faced the closed door to all farmers' organizations. But the conviction remained that the farmers of America could market their grain to their advantage - honestly, uprightly, and in a businesslike way - as well as manufacturers of farm machinery, harness and clothing merchandise their products. The men in this national conference had that conviction. They believed in the good sound business ability of the rank and file of the farmers of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.