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Show f V V UNCLE SAM PLANS TO HELP THE FARMER Judson C. Weill ver, Washington correspondent of Farm and Fireside, publishes In tho current Issue of that publication nn Interview with Dr Beverly Bev-erly T. Galloway, the new hsslstant secretary of agrlculturo in which tho plants of tho department of agriculture agricul-ture aro set forth. Following Is an extract: "Elimination of waste In getting tho farmer's products to tho consumer consum-er and in getting Industrial products to the farmer Is the substance oi our problem. Agricultural production hiust be moro accurately adjusted to market demands. Farmers must un derstand better grading nnd stnnu-ardizatlon stnnu-ardizatlon of their products In ordti to know what they ought co get for what they have to sell. As soon as possible, typlchl communities, prob-nbly prob-nbly counties, will be selected for demonstration de-monstration of the possibilities of this work; tho people will bo appealed to 'o take It up, the department will lend them help to organize and carry 't on, nnd In short they will bo aBked to give themselves over to tho experiment. experi-ment. There nro hundreds of progressive pro-gressive counties whero wo will readily read-ily get co-operation in tho big experiment." ex-periment." J. J- -T- |