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Show MEETING OF NATIONAL UNION Convention at Saline, Kan, Tee Ground Against Proposed Plan of Federal Government. The National Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union of America In Its snnual session at Kaltna, Kan., took ground against the proposed plan of the federal government to aid the farmers by placing money In various banks to aid In movlug the crops, and declared that It waa utterly value less to the farmers, the legislative committee reporting that "It could not see a single benefit In the tMrop aid plan" , The administration currency bill was scored on the ground that It would force farmers to sell at harvest Urn and that speculation would fol low. The establishment of a national marketing bureau waa urged In an other resolution approved by the convention. con-vention. The following resolutions were adopted relative to preventing thi agricultural department from spending spend-ing money In Investigating and surveying sur-veying but to get down to practical demonstrations; "Whereas, Tbroegh efforts of the National Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America there was established by the laat congress a bureau of markets; and, "Whereas. Work that Is being done by officials In charge and what they propose to do Is totally Inadequate tc meet tte needs of the people, both producers and consumers; and, "Whereas, We think It Is time fot the market aide of farming to be gives the same consideration by the department de-partment of agriculture that the pre duclug side Is now receiving; therefore, there-fore, be It "Resolved, 1. That the National Farmers' Educational and Co-Opera-tlve Union of America, In annual convention, con-vention, does call upon the agricultural agricul-tural committee of the houae of rep resentatlvee to use It great Influence to prevent this department from spending its money and reaourcea la surveys aad la a study of conditions as bss been announced by men In charge, but that rather It get dowa to practical demonstrations. "2. That we respectfully submit that rural producers and city con-somen con-somen do not need surveys nor bul lotins that nobody reads nor data on a book of domestic economy to be taught In schools, nor relief ten years hence, when such data baa been assimilated as-similated and digested, but that they need relief now from Intolerable conditions con-ditions tbst dissipate more than f0 per cent of the consumer's dollar without any benefit to producers, and In our Judgment a practical beginning begin-ning should be made at once. "3. That Juat aa It has been found necessary to carry direct to the farmer farm-er the best tnetbods that theory and practice have discovered, so will this matter of marketing need to be taught by men who will 'go In and out' among the people. To this end we advise that in each state the most promising county be selected to demonstrate dem-onstrate the practical effects of this plan. "4. That we do ask the committee, the officials of the bureau of markets, and the people generally to be patient and persistent in this work, for economic eco-nomic marketing la the biggest problem prob-lem ever undertaken by the department depart-ment of agriculture and the one most fraught with good for the American people." The membership were admonlabed to hold their cotton for 16 cents minimum price. There waa no opposition oppo-sition to the plan. The minimum price for cotton seed was filed at $30 per ton. |