Logan Republican | 1919-08-12 | Page 6 | Time for the Farmer to Think

HHi TIME FOR THE FARMER TO THINK BH - Does the average farmer really want B government operation of packing houses, flH&:, stock yards, refrigerator cars and mar- Hj keting of his farm products, as proposed flRf by the Federal Trade commission and leg- BH islation now before Congress? Hfti Has any class of property increased in HH value as much as farms in the past ten HBBjti " years, and has any occupaton been .more HHflH( profitable than farming in the past five JShSBJ15 years? SBHB0 An item from Chilcothe, Missouri, states that farms in that section that sold for $125 an acre two months ago are selling sell-ing fo.r $1G0 to $175 per acre. This state of affairs is practically true of the entire agrcultural area of the west. We had government operation of the railorads for a year and a half. Have their values as property increased in value like farms? The fact is, railroad bonds and stocks which represent the property have shrunk in values in sums reaching into billions while farm mortgages command premiums prem-iums at low rates of interest. Does the farmer want government operation op-eration of the manufacturing and distributing dis-tributing end of agricultural production, such as marketing live stock and other farm products. SH M