Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-12-08 | Page 6 | Strict Inquiry is Called For

IS CALLEI FOR Chicago, Dec. 8, Resolutions calling upon congress to investigate the entire problem of agriculture in the United States and calling for an investigation of the marketing of livestock were adopted today at the closing session of the fourth annual conference on marketing mar-keting and farm credits. The resolutions Buggest that congress con-gress should look into the workings of a co-operative marketing and buying under government auspices in Germany Ger-many and Denmark and other European Euro-pean countries to ascertain to what extent ex-tent these plans coidd be applied to place American agriculture on an efficient ef-ficient basis. The federal farm loan act was hailed as the first step in giving the farmer working capjtal at modest in- lerest, and farmers were urged to form associations under the act. In an address by O. D. Anderson, president of the Farmers' Co-operative Association of South Dakota, speculation specula-tion in grain was condemned as a barrier bar-rier to "just returns" to the producer, lie advocated that speculators should be forced to limit their sales to the amount of wheat actually in existence. The Chicago board of trade wasde-fended wasde-fended by J. p. Griffin, its president, who said that the board at all limes provided the farmer with a highlv competitive market for his grain '