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Show SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURAL METHODS URGED I J U. S. FARMERS U MUST DISPLAY IF GREATER SKILL wt'm College Chief Says Brains J Must Combat Cheaper I Labor Abroad I CUT IN RATES URGED I Report Shows Railroads I Made $600,000,000 While I Farmers Lost 7 Billion HTEH WASHINGTON, Jnn. 26. Utillza- QV EB T i t n of K'iontlflf research In pmmo- Kul lion of a sound agricultural policy was H jjl i msldorcd today by the national agrl- Hlfl cultural confor-n HJH while the conference was in session. HjH delegate? continued to discuss infor- B wWr mallj the matter of bringing before I WW- the conference a resolution endorsing BfKsH the agricultural bloc" in congress WlmWM Dozens of other resolutions were In BBLb process of formation. H The need of a greater food suppl) "r :,n Increasing population was mit- KH lined for the delegates by Dr. E D. B Ball director of scientific work of the BH department of agriculture He decl.ir- WWWMW t-ii there was no overproduction now Wj 1 t tl ere Was under-consumption. j PINCHOT APPLAUDED, flx 1 Gilford Plnchot, of Pennsylvania, BSCS j presenting the need for a national for- BBBH I estry policy, drew applause when he B3 f to6 th "there l.s a group BBBH f of men up here on the hill, most of 14 (hem not farmers, who have earned WMU the everlasting gratitude of every far- WhmWM mer in the United States for what they BBBV have done for them." BfljjB With five-sixths of the virgin tlm- BflJlB '" r 01 ,nc L'nlted States gone, "we are BflBS replacing by growth Only one-fourth BflBjF of what we cut," Mr. Plnchol told the BBV conference. BBB Mr. Plnchot adocated a national BBBf forestry law, to become effective at WmW once, If the 4C0.000 acres of timber- WmWi l.i ml remaining produced 50 cubic BBK feet per acre per year, they could al- BBBjL ill" present needs point BTh- ed out, adding that onls 1 5 cubic feet Bi i" r a re n tt now produced, ft l ( iPPPl.I. 111 1) SP1 KS Mi WASHINGTON ran. 26. If Amert- Wk agriculture is to succeed in com- BSB petition with tiie skill natural re- jBj ircei and cheaper labor of other BBB9B countries, "we must depend upon our BBBD superior knowledge " Raymond A. BBBBa Pearson, president of Iowa State col- BBBBJ lege of agriculture, and mechanical BBBBBJ arts, told the national agriculture con- BBBEB ferenco in a plea for increased agrl- BBBBflj cultural research. BBBfejB Now methods for reducing cost of BBBEB production, the better distribution of BBJSB farm products and better methods of BBBB marketing are sorely n -,led at this BBBH time, he said, adding that such nu th- BBBBB W'H '"'I1 to reduce the cost of BBBBjBj I BETIER VW NEEDED BBB9 A national policy for agricultural re- 9 search. Mr. Pearson declared, should BE-1 provide for nigral federal and state Bt financial suiport Higher salaries, b BBBKB .'aid, were needed to attract able men BBBS to the research work since the sclcn- pBBjgB Mfkv ranks were being depleted rapid- pBBBfl ly by industrial concerns offering pBftgB greater rtnumeratlon. He also advo- pBBBB a teel special scholarships and fellow- PM4" ' -hips to provide coiup. i nt men for ADVERSE FOOD BAXANCE B4 The United Btatcs la approaching a pBBBB condition of adverse food balance and BBBE9 must decide whether to retain a prop-1 BBB8EB cr ratio between agriculture and In-' pBBBjB dustry or permit the latter to take a' pBB3 dominant lead al tip expense of the BBBEtf former. Dr. E. D. Ball, director of BBS scientific work of the department of PBBBH agriculture, declared In an address to- BBBBPl day before national agricultural con- PBBBJB ference. The nation's balance between BBB9 the two fields of endeavor will be lost. ! BBBH he warned. unless the tendency' BBBBBj toward industrial dominance 'is made BBPfl one of th- major problems for nation- BBBBB "I consideration." Hlsis ; SAND BBBBBJ "The critical period in which a de- pBBBBa termination must be made is close at pBBBB hind," he declared, adding that the BBBBBj situation requires a complete rcorgan- BBBJBB ization of the national life, since the BBBBBJ problem of Increasing the food supply B 1 for an Increasing population musl con- BnBlJ ' rn ever industry. BBBBjBJ America. Dr. Ball as-serted. can rc- I tkm ' 'ts commanding position In world BBlBBl affairs only "if she continues to grow VjE- ;in1 develop" and H la tor thU nation BBBH "s a whole to decide whether this BBf BjB shall be done, u is "tremendously BBJBB Important to the world," he added.! HWBjB that the nation holding such a posi- PBBflB tion. be a democracy. The decision,! BBHBBJ he enid. depends largely on agricul BBBflBj ture because national progress in the BBaBB future must rest even more on the BBlBBJ food producing power than It hat In pBBBBfl 1nr' i J1 PREIGIIT BATE CI I URGED BBBjBBa lieducllon of freight rates on farm Bitfl 1 products and produce df allied Indus- BBlBB tries and sharing by both railroad cor- BBBBBj poratlons and labor of "deflation of pBBBBB charges now affecting all Industries" BBBBBB was recommended In the BBHBBBj transportation sub-committee report pBDBBJ prepared early today for submission to BBBBBB tlx- transportation committee of the BBBBBfl national agriculture conference BBBBBBj committee declared labor BBBBBBj should not carry the whole reduction B bul the railroads hould l (CuuilnueU uu Page TwoJ IU. S. FARMERS MUST DISPLAY GREATER SKILL ! (Con tinned from Page One) I' share, saying the railroads made farmers: lose $7,000,000,000. oi LD t UKB POWERS The committee also reeommend'-d Withdrawal by congress of authority I o the interstate commerce commls-1 commls-1 :ion to fix valuation of real estate held by railroads ;il more than Its actual cost or more than the value of similar adjoining lauds in making up the capital cap-ital account of the railroad' Repeal of the guaranty clause of It; the transportation act. restoration to I lie state railroad commissions of full powers as of date when railroads were U'Ken over by th United Slates government gov-ernment but retention by the comnls-of comnls-of control of movement of empty cars in lnter.stute business, were urged. Jtecommendatlon, it was declared. 11 .sJiould bo made to the Interstate com-mqree com-mqree commission that the present relation re-lation between the charges for long uui sho t hauls in the tntermounialn III teglon: be not disturbed. |