Show TRADE SLUMP HEPS fARMERS I Crop Prices Advance as Commodities Decline I WASHINGTON Aug Au 8 S. Business and Industrial conditions continued to slump I during June with wIlls virtually the only bright spot In the tho American trade trad trade world the feo federal ral reserve board reported In a survey surey toda today Production In basic Industries de declined I dined about 9 S per cent during one me month to a point 22 2 per er cent below the level of ot the first two m months of the I year Iron steel and cotton colon turing industries were the heaviest suf suf- J General General trade decreased ed as shown Iho Sn in the the tact fact that railroad shipments in June were wele 15 35 per cent less than a a year ago I though mall mal order houses lOUSe were an ex exception exI ex- ex to the general slump IndicatIng indicating ing Improvement In the the agricultural re re- re- re I gOons gions With Wih the advance of or corn an and anul wheat heat prices this situation Is r s turning out oui to tobe toI be bc of ot the greatest benefit to farmers farmer I Between the decline of prices In in maYI many maY commodities and the advance ance of farm tarm I product prices price the tIne pur purchasing 0 of power of ot farm rams products reached the tha highest said sai level since abcs O October October y tober 1920 the report The recent retest advance In lii wheat prices together with a large lage in the princIpal principal prin prin- cipal producing districts Is resulting In Irea greater ter returns I to the producers producer and in liquidation of Indebtedness s. s especially in ito inthe the sections that suffered a crop tal failure ri last year It continued Conditions Condition In Europe are the reverse ere re I I of ot conditions here the board said |