Show AGRICULTURE ON UPWARD ARD GRADE BRADS So Declares See Seey yo Jardine J ardine In Annual Report t Tar Tar- Tar f if Upheld WASHINGTON D Dec c By 10 10 The rho Associated Press ture Is unquestionably on the tile up- up upward upward ward grade crude as a the result In a 1 large measure mel of df tho Intelligence energy and anil determination ot of the farmers S Secretary Jar Jar- Jardino said laid today In la his annual re- re report report report port Everything E necessary for tor recoil t el t on I ft sound found footing can can- cannot cannot cannot not be done By 5 the tho farmers them them- themselves selves elves elves though Mr Jardine do- do dc u ed cl and the Industry Is en- en entitled en entitled titled to assistance from other groups of ot tho the community and orn amO-orn from the th nation He H advanced no non nHi n nl w plan tor for tarm relief Further moderate Improvement t In the tho agricultural situation as ae a aw w ale has hM taken place durin during the thel It l it t year sUd the secretary Certain regions have havo suffered rev re- re rev v notably the cotton states principal crop produced In exceptional abundance Is selling at lit very low prices Parts of ol the spring wheat states slates have ave harvest harvest- harvested harvested ed a poor crop Generally speak speak- speaking ing however the tho position of or agri- agri Is better now than it ft has hit b m in In any year ear since Bine 1920 Live Live- tock raisers dairymen c and tin tin- tint t wheat growers rowers have hive earned earned god grod returns and underlying con con- conditions In the tho corn belt have havo tin tin- pr red ived Since the depression pe- pe period clod ot of o 21 1920 every agricultural s tion of or the country and every cry ever br be inch o ot of agriculture ap have made madil Ir greas Unfortunately the re- re reI rec rec rec I c ont nt slum slump In cotton prices makes make It St doubtful whether the thi crop year or 27 1926 1 carry forward the story ot of o Improvement at the tho rate rati bUshed in te e last few years 1 1 is ie also true that ch ot of ott off o 1 t i country farmers are arc rug with l a burden o of debt deba a id 01 d reduced buying power JJ SURILUS harmers Farmers are arc telling getting gc tUng results om the lh steps they took tok follow ollow- tn In the depression lon o of 1921 to cur cur- curt curI cur 1 t I IC il l overproduction o an and to bring t i enterprises Into prot- prot balance Last st t year ear how bow it became apparent that In Inmost inmost c r It r most lines cotton being an out out- lit pil exception practicable te- te ter reI re-i re r I in production had been made nade Turning to the surplus problem dr Jardine raid aId he was con con- V need that through organized and an t wall 11 directed efforts much more morce e in be bl done than had hitherto b en done to eliminate the recur recur- surpluses that prove so detri detrimental no mental to the farming Industry P 1 titer tier control 0 ol of the movement ot of agricultural products Into con con- conI con channels Is needed I t trough adequate marketing andred and red credit It facilities and of or producers for tor mar mar- marl mark mar 1 l k ting tine operations con Farmer rolled Farmer u oiled agencies he he d could rt t effect an m orderly flow ot of I products to r market CO co E should Mould be bed bed bod d signed to create and enlarge leh agencies and supplement Ir ir efforts efforts- said Secretary Jardine Jar Jar- Jarline Jar line dine No general formula lla will r vet vcr all commodities and all nil rf re- re ions Ions lona What Is needed is eon oon- oon c and co effort Lacked backed up by adequate resource resources To I To ro do this many require further r enabling lei legislation Declaring that farm tarm commodity prIces c especially in areas dIstant from markets are ro seriously di- di de depressed pressed by high hl h freight rates raten Mr 1 Jardine said It was wa his I ere are must be bo substantial rate re- re readjustments re readjustments adjustments II Drastic reduction In farm taxes cannot annot be expected at the present time In the opinion o of the sec sec- sec r rotary tary who said the demands of f the users of ot automobiles for tor bet bet- bett bet better t ter tr and more roads and the necessarily high costs of ot edu- edu education edu education cation will keep heep the tte ex expenses o of and local units close to their present level Ife He II said It was a n mistake to suppose that the tariff system benefits Indus Indus- Industry industry Industry try greatly and agriculture little It would bo Je In the highest de de- de reo de-reo greo unwise for or farmers at this time to launch an attack on the tariff ho he said laid without carefully tho the possibility that In Inthe inthe the near future they may need It more than any other economic group In the the- country Tariff duties on farm tarm products prior to the war were largely I hypotheticaL Now with increasing population with relatively declining farm pop pop- population population pop population with d declining farm acre acre- acreage acreage acre af age per ler capita and with Sn Jog efficiency ot of farming the tar tar- tar iff Is becoming b protective ve for crops formerly influenced mainly by the world market Powerful forces are arc carrying us Into a position In 1 which the tariff will have Its lis In Intended tended effect in the e on a steadily lengthening en list of o important farm commodities Un- Un Under Under Under der our high tariff regime retime such tariff rates should be placed on 0 farm products article by article s as will insure the producer the home market The experiences of recent years ears have ha convinced me that the th system of ot basing tariff rates rales on differences in production production tion costs is 13 to agri- agri agricultural cultural products product The only method Is to do what used te to be bedone bedone done decades ago for manufacturing tog ing industries namely to fix rates at such a height as a effectively ef y to 10 give gl the tho home market to domestic c producers ft |