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Show Fill BASIS FOB FIRI1ME0 PLANS LAID FOR PLACING FARMING FARM-ING OPERATIONS ON PERMANENT PER-MANENT ECONOMIC BASIS Texas Representative Suggests That System Ee Introduced To Improve Im-prove Distribution of Farm Products Washington. Concrete suggestions tor placing the business of farming an a basis of permnnerit economic strength and of bringing about unJ-rormlty unJ-rormlty 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-qunnfity, trans-qunnfity, possessing distinctive characteristics char-acteristics determinative of the use 'or which it is best adapted, shall e given a separate grade term. 2. To have a warehouse system under uniform regulations where these eoTTiomdites may be graded, stored and lmve 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 warhiouse of original or secondary storage. 4. An adjusted credit system supplementing sup-plementing but not supplanting existing ex-isting credit-extending iacilltles, so as to make possible a longer time credit at fair Interest rate when necessary to carry commodities for orderly marketing. 5. The co-iordination 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 exist-'ng exist-'ng facilities, says Sumners, Is all that is required to put Into operation opera-tion the reforms he suggests. The Government would be required to oc cupied it to meet new conditions which have developed. Among the definite advantages thnt would secure to farmers by the adop Hon of his suggestions, says Sumners, would be: Commodities would move largely under prior sale from points of first and seoomlary concentratioi: to points of use by the cheapest ant most direct route with requirement for use. This would reduce transpor tntion charges unnecessary intervening profits and physical waste in congest ed markets. The plan suggested would not or pernte against fair distribution charg and profit, but 'by creating a practi cal, ensy-of-acess, avallabie-to-all rout( ..round the privately-controlled avenu of distribution would tend to hok the total of intervening ciiarges am profits to the basis of the eoonomii value of the service rendered. Every body, including merchants in agricui tural products, could buy and sel uhrough this agency. |