Show FARMERS IN SORRY P PLIGHT IGHT SENATOR 1 CAPPER SAYS Startling Statements on Hi Hi- cost Made by Republican Solon of Kansas W WASHINGTON Oct 21 The 21 The far mers' mers side of ot the high cost of ot living question was presented to the senate today by Senator Capper Rep of Kansas ansas who declared that while wIllIe farmers are sel selling ng their products at ata ata ata a loss In declining markets the consumers consumers consumers con con- sumers are paying rising prices Faulty distribution was blamed lar largely ely for tor this remarkable spectacle cle and the senator urged a number of remedies to increase production He deplored the numerous Industrial strikes and the small representation given n agriculture in the Industrial conference In our efforts to get et rid of 01 the high cost of ot living disease said Mr lr Capper I r fear tear we are arc In great reat danger danger danger dan dan- dan dan- ger of 01 dying of 01 the remedy As a result of 01 Washington's effort to re reduce reduce reduce re- re duce high prices by breaking down entirely the cost of ot food tood we have havethe havethe havethe the remarkable spectacle of ot a rise of ot otI 1 I per cent in the cost of 01 living coincident coincident coincident dent with market drops that are putting livestock raisers out of 01 business busIness business bus bus- iness and causing serious losses to other producers i SELLING AT LOSS i Illustrating the anomalous situation of ot farmers and consumers Senator Capper said farmers are selling their wheat at a loss losa adding It takes four tour and a half halt bushels bushel of ot wheat to make a barrel of flour The wheat raiser gets about for tor the wheat the miller 1270 the baker and the hotel keeper here herein in Washington as it is doled out In I thin slices The government through the grain corporation Senator Capper said profited at the expense of ot the farmers last year the farmer selling from 20 o to 70 cents less than the guaranteed price MEAT STILL HIGH The situation of 01 the livestock farmer is even more deplorable he said Farmers are selling their grain fed beeves and hogs for less than it cost to produce them but the consumer consumer consumer con con- sumer finds little or no change in the price of meat While everything a farmer must buy demands the hl high h dollar the price of ot his commodities the cheapest cheap cheap- est in the market are held down by a foreign embargo and a government guarantee Without visibly helping the consumer consumer consumer con con- sumer we have brought about a crisis in our most fundamental and vital industry by forcing the producer to accept prices at which he cannot continue continue continue con con- to produce while he and the consumer are compelled to pay prices at which they are forced to curtail the home demand EIGHTY MILLIONS LOST Citing losses sustained by agricultural agricultural tural producers Senator Capper said the recent decline in livestock prices had cost producers Livestock Live Live- stock growers he said do not control the markets and like other agricultural agricultural tural producers must accept prices fixed by others Farmer wages have doubled land values have risen enormously and everything the farmer buys he said has risen from 50 to per cent Among the remedies suggested by Senator Capper were cessation of federal government propaganda which tends to be bear r down the prices of 01 farm products Executive departments he said should seek wider markets for the farmer by lifting the embargo on wheat and wheat flour to Europe by extending credits to European governments governments governments gov gov- and by lowering ocean freight rates Legislation to free the livestock producer of 01 alleged control of the markets by the packers also was urged by Senator Capper who suggested suggested sug RUg ested establishment of ot cooperative farm tarm selling agencies |