Show AFFLICTION A F F L t CT I 0 N OF FARM To To the tho majority of ot farmers bankers are oro ogres seeking whom hom they may devour Suggesting that I the farmer and the tho banker could sit down and talk over oer 0 er the farmers farmer's tarot farm ers er's problem with the hope that the farmer could derive any good from flom such conference Is therefore a standing joke jole but the tho truth of the matter is that the banker asks no more moro of the farmer than he does of any aDY other class cass of or business businessman man or manufacturer or individual Industry as the director of the agricultural commission of ot the American flankers Bankers n association points out suffers because of ot in in- inefficient efficient firms These back num numbers bers stick sUck to old methods of pro pro- production production I and place goods on the tho market even at a loss to o compete with the tho more moro efficient Institutions The solution of the problem for industry is the weeding out of the inefficient Unfortunately In agriculture the inefficient farmers can bang hang on forever because they can pro pro- duco under any and all alt adverse erse circumstances enough to keep soul and body together They and not Dot the corn borer or the boll weevil wee or the wheat rust are agricultures agriculture's worst parasite and until they Iller are exterminated farming can never Dever i be good business |