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Show IS HELD SIC TUSK Bernard Baruch Suggests Plan for Growers to Gei Rightful Right-ful Share KANSAS -CITY. Mo.. Feb. 1 .i A System f"i placing agriculture and the marketing of farm crops in the lulled Stales on a business basis through proper financing was outlined out-lined to the farmers' grain marketing committee Of 17 here Monday by Bernard Ber-nard M. Baruch, former chairman of the war finance corporation. Declaring that the farmer 'ha? never received a fair share of what he produced,'1 pro-duced,'1 Mr. Baruch proposed corporations corpo-rations for financing the marketing of farm products as a way out of the situation brought about by low prices. ' A lot of people sjv it can't be done," he said, "but i have no job now and i am going to prove it can be done in working out a system for the movement move-ment of the cotton crop in South Carolina," Outlining his plan for market financing. fi-nancing. Sir Baruch declared that better elovator and warehouse facilities facili-ties at the point of origin were tin first consideration. The farmer could bring hiii grain or other products to be stored and properly gradd and receive a warehouse ware-house receipt. He could obtain short time credits from the marketing corporation cor-poration giving his warehouse receipt as security. Mr. Baruch continued This, ho said, would carry the farmer over the harvest period and would tend to Stabilize market conditions. |