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Show CREDITS IE j TALKS ON IMBJECTS Finance, Efficient Marketing, Market-ing, Conservation and Rural Ru-ral Development; Suggest Sug-gest Remedies. t ( i C UK' AGO, Dee. S. Cattle raisers, j economists of the colleges and the gov-j em m put, plain farmers, marketing ex-1 perts to the number of SOO, who have1 been holdias the fourth national conference confer-ence on marketing and farm credits here, completed their labor today. jf They took up problems involving f arm i finance, putting the landless man on j the manless land, efficient marketing,! conservation and rural development, and! Ftiggested remedial procedure in reso- j lutions adopted this afternoon. j Resolutions and speeches showed that. the actual growers of grain, cattle, fruit and vegetables believe they are not obtaining ob-taining proper returns for the labor and investment, because they are not organized or-ganized ajid do not work co-operatively; that the waste by present methods, or the lack of them, is of appalling magnitude magni-tude and makes it eapy for the legion of middlemen to inflate the cost of living; liv-ing; that Europe has much to teach us about co-operative agriculture, and that it is up to congress to study the whole situation and apply remedies accordingly. Sorry Picture. The whole sorry picture of fruits and vegetables rotting in the fields while residents of the cities pay exorbitant prices for the proportion which, by manipulation ma-nipulation or otherwise, reaches the urban ur-ban markets, was presented. The conference, according to its sponsors, spon-sors, has at last reached a position where something is being accomplished for the farmers. The farm loan bill is a law; many states have market commissioners commis-sioners and the federal government has established the office of marketing and rural credits to work with the states, and the discussions have disclosed what the weaknesses of the system are, and shown the way out. Government investigation inves-tigation of the livestock and packing industries by the federal trades commission com-mission was asked. Represent Twenty States. M Market commissioners of twenty i "V states, named to assist the farmer and the consumer ,by giving expert advice on proper crops to raise, where to send them, what they are worth, how to or ganize for mutual benefit, ami th like, met r.:ider the presidency of . G. Si-holtz, market commissioner of Idaho. YV. A. Sherma:i of the new federal office of-fice of markets and rural organization explained to them Liuv the federal ? eminent purr oses to co-ocrate with them. In another room the National Agricultural Agricul-tural (Jrani:a.tion society met informally informal-ly This society was formed a year ago a. ;'t r previous conferences had developed devel-oped the need for the farmer to organize, to help the farmer to do so. and to provide pro-vide him with expert advice in eiii-ciencv eiii-ciencv methods necessary to h is com-muni'iy com-muni'iy development. It was reported at the meeting that the society has helped to form scores of co-operative associations as-sociations during the year of its existence. exist-ence. The resolutions express the belief that farm loin bonds will be readily salable, but remark the nccity for a system of short time credits 'in addition for the farmer. Legislation to this end i asked of congress. Congress also is ''' asked to provide an authority to cer-! cer-! tifv notes, secured by livestock or other I farm products, so that they may have i a rearW market at reasonable rates. ; This, it is arcued, would relieve the farmer of the high interest charged by local monev lenders. In the matter of getting more set 1 tiers on the laud the resolutions recognized recog-nized the excellent purpose of the dozer do-zer bill, but opposed that pa rticular measure as providing perpetual bureaucratic bureau-cratic control, and tending to duplicate a "depeudnt peasantry. ' r To overcome I the evils of tenant farming, said to be increasing, the resolutions call for soil ! survev? which will show the exact char-' char-' acteristics and value of every parcel of land in the country; government aid to the farmer until his land is in ehnpe to i provide him with a living. Suggest "Ready-made" Farms. ' ' Ready-made ' 5 farms are suggested, and the plan used in "Wyoming is indorsed. in-dorsed. Supervision of private colonization coloni-zation projects to protect the settlers from fraud and misrepresentation is requested, re-quested, and the government is asked to appoint a committee to look into the whole subject, including "the feasibility and value 'of adopting in this count ry some of the policies of other countries which have done so much to improve agriculture and social conditions in these countries." Congress is asked to have the federal trade commission investigate the marketing mar-keting of livestock, and to stndv whether government or co-operative ly -owned packing plants would stimulate livestock production. The department of agriculture is asked to extend its work of establishing market grades so as to cover all farm products, including meat animals, and to enforce the observance observ-ance of those gradings at all principal markets by the presence of inspectors who would also settle disputes as to grades between buyer and seller. A paragraph was devoted to the emphatic em-phatic assertion that the farmers protest pro-test against any embargo or export duty on foodstuffs. A protest was also, entered en-tered against.' the Shields and Myers water power bills as failing to protect the public interest by failing to fix compensation and a definite time f or ; each water power leaso to revert to the people. It had been intended to include in the resolution provision to send a delegation delega-tion to Washington to work for the objects ob-jects of the conference, but it was in-; in-; advertently omitted. Frank L. MeVov, the chairman, said, however, that he would construe the resolutions as including in-cluding this and might be able to name the committee tomorrow. |