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Show FARMERS ASK FINANCIAL AID. Government Urged to Borrow Money to Lend Them at Low Interest. Washington. Refusal of the federal fed-eral reserve board to give agricultural Interests of the country preferential discount rates hns greatly disappointed disappoint-ed the furniors' organizations represented repre-sented In Washington and prompted Ueorge I Hampton, director or the Farmers' National Council, to address n letter to Governor U. 1 O. Harding of tho New York federal reserve bank urging that the government borrow money for deposit In natonnl banks to bo lent to fanners at not over 1 per cent In excess of the rate paid by the government for the money. This, he said, would enublo the farmers to hold nt least a portion of their crops until they can get cost of production, plus u reasonable profit. |