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Show FIRM BASIS FOR FARMING PLANNED PLANS LAID FOR PLACING FARMING FARM-ING OPERATIONS ON PER MANENT ECONOMIC BASIS Texas Representative Suggests That System Be Introduced To Improve Im-prove Distribution of Farm Products Washington. Concrete suggestions for placing the business of farming on a basis of penimnpnt economic strength nnd of bringing about uniformity uni-formity In sales and distribution of farm products are given by Representative Represen-tative Hatton W. Sumners, of Texas, to his egricultural colleagues In Congress. Con-gress. 1. That agriculture products be standardized with reference to requirement re-quirement for use as distinct from requirements for future board trans-quantity, trans-quantity, possessing distinctive characteristics char-acteristics determinative of the use for which it is best adapted, shall be given a separate graae term. 2. To have a warehouse system under uniform regulations where these comomdltes may be graded, stored and have receipts Issued for them which will carry a general assignable as-signable guarantee as to physical protection, title quantity and grade. 3. To have a marketing agency through which these standardized commodities may be sold by their respective grade classification and through which perishable commodities commodi-ties may be sold by telegraphic communications com-munications and delivery effected from the warhicmse of original or secondary storage. 4. An adjusted credit system supplementing sup-plementing but not supplanting existing ex-isting credit-extending facilities, so as to make possible a longer time credit at fair Interest rate when necessary to carry commodities for orderly marketing. 5. The co-ordination of all these so that they may function as a unit in facilitating the sale and distribution of farm products. Relatively unimportant expansion, development and adjustment of existing exist-ing facilities, says Sumners, Is all that is required to put Into operation opera-tion the reforms lie suggests. The Government would be required to occupied oc-cupied It to meet new conditions which have developed. Among the definite advantages that would nccure to farmers by the adoption adop-tion of his suggestions, says Sumners, would be : Commodities would move largely under prior sale from points of first and secondary concentration to points of use by the cheapest and most direct route with requirements for use. This would reduce transportation transpor-tation charges unnecessary intervening profits and physical waste In congested congest-ed markets. The plan suggested would not op pei-ate against fair distribution charge and profit, but by creating a practical, practi-cal, easy-of-acess, avallable-to-all route ;i round the privately-controlled avenue of distribution would tend to hold the total of Intervening cnarges and profits to the basis of the economic value of the service rendered. Everybody, Every-body, Including merchants to agricultural agricul-tural products, could buy and seil through this agency. |