Show t Needs of the Farmer Fanner 1 0 of taxes on farms and reorganization reorganization re- re R 1 REDUCTION organization of freight rates was recently advocated by William Villiam M. M Jardine secretary of oT the department of agriculture He was addressing addressing ad ad- dressing the Iowa State college and his address was soon after havin having completed a rather extensive visit to the agricultural sections of ofA A e eVest Vest West Northwest and Middle West He attention to the fact that taxes on had risen per per cent between 1914 S nd 1923 The value of farms in the United States tates has increased only 58 per cent during that period y J Secretary Jardine came out flat footed for fora a radical readjustment in freight rat rates s declaring declaring de de- de- de claring that these rates have grown up the c country over in a r. r rather ther haphazard fashion The big complaint of the farmer has always S been that the items entered upon the red column of the farmers' farmers budgets have been f lob o great to allow this industry to thrive as asit asit it it should The government has been beeri taking the initiative in educating farmers to plant m MOre re diversified crops rather than to depend entirely upon one major crop that may prove disastrous one year when the market breaks while another year ear it may bring abnormally large returns due to market conditions One thing Secretary Jardine has made pain pam n since he has been in President Coolidge's CoolS Coolidge's Cool- Cool S idge's cabinet is that farmers cannot depend upon legislation to cure all their evils It is true twe that the governments both state and 6 national through economy ny can reduce taxes and pd a readjustment of rail rates may be acc accomplished ac tic- c in such a manner as to assist the farmer and at the same time not reduce profits of railroads but legislation that will a attempt tempt to create false markets for farmers' farmers products and government subsidiaries for farmers farmers' farm farm- irs ers Secretary Jardine does not believe practicable practicable practicable and in m this he is backed by the administration admin admin- tion in Washington |