Show DEPARTMENT rENT AGRICULTURE If the farmer who pro produces s tho potatoes po to use that a as an illustration is enabled to produce two ll b bushels of potatoes po po- with the same expenditure of labor Jabor effort and capital capita that he has heretofore expended in raisin raising ono one bushel buhel his income would not he be reduced if ho wore were to sell leU them for one half the price per bushel which he lie formerly r re received and tho the consumer would be en enabled enabled In to purchase them for one half the former cost plus plu the tho distribution charges es on the tho additional bU bushel hol Better production greater production standard stand ard production and improved c l means methods and antI knowledge of distribution are ne the two big bit factors involved in in the tho problem of the the cost ost of living with which the tho new head bend of the agricultural ac department is ii dealing Of course cours there are arc rc man other elements clements which enter into consideration and mam other duties which devolve de upon lIpO the chief of this thin important branch of the federal Government gO hut but the they are subordinate to two fundamental questions affecting af- af the time feeding of a nation of more than of people people and and them ifs is after niter nil 11 the time first tint essential in mal making them hap happy and prosperous Frank B. B Lord in National Month Monthly |