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Show FARMERS DECIDE TO HOLD CROPS Conference Urges Marketing Of Products Only As Demand De-mand Requires WASHINGTON. Oct. 9. Resolutions Resolu-tions urging that all crops be marketed as the demand requires and that congress con-gress conduct an investigation of Interest In-terest rates charged bv banks were adopt, d tod iy by the farmers' conference confer-ence In session here. U.THORIZE6 HOLD Ac. All farmers were urged to Joint existing ex-isting cooperative marketing organizations organiza-tions and organize new ones, and congress con-gress was asked to give the federal larm loan board authority to Issue audi srll in the open market short term .securities .se-curities based on warehouse receipts issued under the federal warehouse act Delegates to the conference inter- ; preted the resolution for market as the demand requires as authorizlfisr :, hold ing movement of .-of ton. wheat and other great farm staples COOIM FC T10 o I.XROR 1 he i evolutions- as adopted were recommended rec-ommended bv the poiioy committee which was appointed at the opening session yesterday. Benjamin C. Marsh secretary ol the Farmers' National Na-tional council, refused to sign the committer com-mitter report submitting a mlnonlv on., requesting the representatives of organised lahor who have expressed to us at this conference their sympathy sympa-thy with farmers" need to secure short tlmo credit so they may secure at least costs of production, that they go with us to the president to ask for Immediate Imme-diate . -edit r -ilef ,-,nd to lav this matter mat-ter before the cabinet."' He also wanted the conference to go on record as favoring government ownership own-ership of the railroads. I OKSIDER i W t;K. The conference policy committee , also recommended that a committee! consider the organization of a national agrirultural bank to be financed by i formers' coopcrotive organizations. The directorate would be chosen from all the farm organizations of the' country. |