Show SE SEY SECRETARY JARDINE ARDINE URGES MUSCLE Y SHOALS AS MD ID TO FARMERS S JJ J Have Been Making Promises Too Long He Says I i t. t i I One of the chief ways in which we xe can cau help the e farmers of this country is to help reduce the cost of their fertilizer bills Secretary of ot Agriculture William Jardine told a Muscle Shoals inq inquiry committee of congress last spring in a statement that has just been ee made public They The have to use more of it rather than less of or It and concentrated fertilizer fertilizer if If I understand it correctly correctly meana a reduction of 25 or 30 per cent in the present cost simply through sa savings 1 on freight rates and mixing V t. t Secretary Jardine in addressing this committee charged with the disposition 0 of Muscle Shoals explained that he was vas not interested In Muscle 1 Shoals from the power standpoint nor for any other kind of development except that of oC making it work as effectively ire as possible in the interest of the farmers by giving them cheap fertilizers M My chief concern is that we do it without delay We leave bave been making promises for a long time thre For 10 years now the promise se e of a cheaper fertilizer has been before e this country If 11 we Ave had had this going inthe inthe in inthe the last five years it would have helped the farmers materially During this same hearing Congressman John J. J McSwain of South Carolina made it clear that there is no guarantee of any very cheap fertilizer through the various new processes urged by Dr F. F G G. G Cottrell end and his associates o of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory I I I I do not care how cheaply the du dui Pont people may be be beable able to Manufacture nitrogenous plant food foo they are not going to set up this plus cost reasonable profit a profit plan as as as' involved in the offer of the Am Amer r- r lean Jean Cyanamid Company Th They y will make all th the margin between the cost and the existing price of Chilean nitrates and ami the they will make just as much profit as possible Now what I am anxious to do at Muscle Shoals I is to use In time of peace that mighty project in order to keep l it ready for war t It can be u Hl as a hammer to drive fertilizer down prices through competition |