Show DENIES FARMER Is 18 PROSPERING Is Eternally Optimistic I IRate Rate Examiners Are Told KANSAS CITY SIo lIo Jan 9 9 By Th The Associated At Pi-eee-At- At Attention of the Interstate commerce commission Ion hearing on the th appliCation application cation of western railroads railroad for tor a aG ai G 5 per cent freIght rate race Increase was turned tin from farming condi condl conditions condition tion as they exist In the north north- west north welt and nd centered on the th farm farm- Inic log InK outlook In Oklahoma The condition of ot the th Oklahoma farmer was wan described i a-i a d by J J C Sanders head of ohe the agricultural economics economic depart depart- department ment mont ment of the Iho ih Oklahoma al and Mechanical coll ce and C II Hyde himself a K dirt farmer living JIving near Alva Alv Oklahoma Mr Sanders d statements ot of delegates atthe at al the o hearing that the Oklahoma wheat and anil cot cot- cotton cotton ton col-ton I ton farmers farmer had recovered Kenneth Burgess attorney for forthe forthe the Burlington on examination showed Mr Sanders Sander k a state at re- re report report re report port on agrIcultural conditions condition In Oklahoma which Ml said aid farming communities are generally optimistic optimistic and ond are re looking forward to 1925 1 as a banner year car car Mr Ir Sanders SandTS declared the Okla Okla- Oklahoma OkIa- OkIa Oklahoma homa lioma farmer was waa eternally op- op optimistic op optimistic or he h would have quit long ago and reminded the th I questioner the th report was wal Issued In 1924 |