Show FARM RELIEF PROBLEMS TO TOBE TOBE TOBE BE DISCUSSED American A mer ni e r i can C Federation Federa HOll Will Have Annual A 1 Session CHICAGO Nov No 26 By By The As As- Associated sedated Press Representing one million rural families the American Farm Fares bureau Federation will meet here In annual convention Dec 5 6 and 7 to re-elect re Sam H H. Thomp Thomp- Thompson son of Quincy DL nl as liS Its president and to marshal its flung far strength behind a a. demand that congress sanction private ate operation of Muscle Shoals and give economic relief to agriculture as provided pro In the vetoed McNary bill Thompsons Thompson's views arc looked upon by the organized farmer as exemplifying the theory theor that prop prop- proper er cc relief can come only through commercial elimination of crop surpluses It Is understood that voting delegations from 44 41 states are determined against farm reme reme- remedy remedy remedy dy of a credit nature or relief based on government subsidy EQUALIZATION PLAN Chester Gray Gra legislative e representative representative declares the federation favors the tho equalization plan of the McNary bill creating a federal farm bureau to direct sur sur- surplus surplus plus produce to profitable foreign markets markets' or to remove such sur sur- surpluses surpluses sur- sur surpluses pluses from the domestic market until consumer demands draw them back Into trade channels It has been learned authoritatively authoritatively he sa says sas s that such a board can develop in China alone an an sri- annual annual nual market for bushels of America wheat This country produces an on average of bushels a year car of which approximately approximately approximately are a surplus which often for want ant of proper outlet drags down domestic mar mar- market market market ket prices RETARDING MARKETS Farmers welcome whatever er equalization ration fee the board might place on a farm commodity to Insure re removal re- re moral moval of its surplus The current market price might make allow allow- allowance allowance allowance ance for as much as a two-cents- two bushel a-bushel fee on wheat but by vir vir- virtue virtue vir- vir virtue tue of that fee fee- the retarding in influence In- In Influence fluence of a surplus would be eliminated eliminated with the result that higher prices would prevail for the entire output The federation wants the ads an advantage advantage tage of cheaply manufactured fer fer- fertilizer fertilizer fer- fer and is 15 convinced that oper oper- operation operation operation of Muscle as provided in tn the Madden bill is the only feasible plan We favor or avor private ate operation by b lessee Jessee Gray explains rather than government operation or develop develop- development development ment merit by power Interests which can can- cannot cannot cannot not manufacture fertilizer The American Cyanamid company through its plant at Niagara Falls Is 15 the only concern on the American continent satisfactorily fixing nitro nitro- nitrogen nitrogen gen gee from the air sir and selling It as a commercial fertilizer It already has hasa a plant at Muscle Shoals it has access to cheap water power and andas as ase we e see it has the logical pro pro- process process process cess to meet our needs EXPECT THERE Attendance at the convention con is expected to reach General John J. J Pershing will deliver an address on A Prosper Prosper- Prosperous ous Otis Agriculture as a Factor In l Pre Pre- Preserving Preserving serving American Institutions Ed Edgar Ediar Edgar gar Brossard member of the federal tariff commission will speak on Relation of Tariff to Agriculture and Representative Hill of Alabama on What Is Lv to Become of Muscle Shoals Mrs Charles W. W Sewell representing representing representing farm bureau women has pledged the support of f com corn community community units to legislation of the McNary McNary-Haugen type |