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Show m INTEREST EATS FARM PROFITS Oklahoma City, Okla, March 20. Tho farmers of tho Unltod States pay out $510,000,000 a year In Interest on farm loans, according to tho United States department of agriculture In tho south and southwest, tho question of lower Interest ratos is so mtonso that tho International Dry Farming Congress plana to raako n special investigation in-vestigation this summor and to dis cuss, tho subject fully at Its eighth annual meeting In Tulsa, Okla., noxt Octobor. Tho general opinion seems to be that tho trouble with tho south Is tin ono crop system. T. P. Martin, banker of tills city gavo an Intorebt ing sidelight ou tho sltuntlon In a recent re-cent lntervlow. "Which of you fnrr: era gets tho lowest ratos of Interest at your bank," ho asked, "tho on() h.v raises livestock or tho ono that stlckB to cotton? I feel suro you will answer, an-swer, "Tho man that raises ltvo stock." "And why Is it? Simply because ho Is able to borrow money on somo thing that Is growing Into dollars; something that may bo producing moro of Its own kind whllo Its ownor Bloeps; something that Is saleable at anyi time, can withstand drought and storms and can, as n last resort, be oaten at homo to sustain llfo. Loans woll secured by Ilvo stock aro being eagerly bought by largo banka all over ov-er the eountry. Thuro in no bettor plcco of bank paper today than a (004 loaja o oftttla." |