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Show FARM RELIEF The other day a prominent leader In agricultural work gave a talk by radio. He wasn't trying to get votes, money, or support of any kyind from the farmer and so he simply told the tru;h. Thousands of letters and cards from all parts of the United States came in to him during the following fol-lowing week. This made it evident that he sounded out the opinions of most progressive farmers. "Agricultural conditions," he said, "can be improved in two ways; by economical production and by scientific scien-tific marketing." Don't fall for everything because it is called cooperative," he said. "But keep an open mind toward those marketing enterprises which seek to get your product to the consumer con-sumer in a more efficient way than it is now getting there. If the project sounds businesslike, if the promoter talks as though he knows something about business if the plan of distribution distri-bution is similar to those plans which have already been successful, then it may be well to lend your support. "You will have a long wait, however," how-ever," he added, "if you are looking for relief through the growth of cooperative co-operative marketing enterprises. In the mean time it might be well to test your seed corn and raise your production from eighty or ninety bushels to the acre to two or three hundred bushels. Then you can make as much as you are making now by cultivating less land and doing less work. Or s-Bt into a cow testing associa tion and get rid of the unprofitable cow, or learn to cull your flock, and then raise only hens which pay their own way. Or grow more alfalfa and soy beans and buy less ready mixed feed. This was his advice to the farmer who is tired of waiting for relief from the politician and clever talking promoter. |