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Show INSURANCE OF CROPS FAVORED j Acreage Limitation and Price Fiing Also Coming Up Before Conference WASHINGTON, J"" ifi Insurance of cropi" hs a method of stabilising! prices of farm products ih expected toj bo one Of many suggestions put forward for-ward at the nif.lonal agricultural conference con-ference which opens January 2 3. for Inclusion in a permanent national fnrm policy. Plucurslon within the conference would bo expected to develop de-velop whether proponents would recommend rec-ommend that tho insurance be carried by tho farmers co-operatively, by private pri-vate companies, or .hrough government govern-ment aid. Crop Insurance ha-; boon tested to a certain extent. It wjln declared, both by mutual fanners' .oinpanle.i and by private Insurance companies and Horticultural Hort-icultural experts declare it h'ls proved successful- DISCI SS PRU K i 1XIVG Balancing production .h uoiisump-tion uoiisump-tion Is another important topic which leaders expect to come up. -Suggestions likely ii corns from conference delegates, dele-gates, it was Fold, range from tho old acreage limitation to a mora careful Study of World production and consumption. con-sumption. Along with t'.-.ls would go crop surveys in America. Valorization, or pr.-" frr n v .as said lo be on the inlndt of several delegates and w hile economists declared declar-ed all wuch efforts Invariably In 'he past have faflod. nevertheless It lias failed to setcio the demands. HI Us on this subject now before conr.ress and suggeftlotLs frohi the outsld have tomo for minimum pricu guarantees fur certain stapio oomjmodlU Wheat, corn, eottoii .Lnd tiie like, l UBOB ,' ESSTION UP I Extonslon of ihe co-operative movc- merit also Is expected to be proposed. Leaders prtdlcl thnt the labor ones-1 tinn will arise, since the prj.ncnoe of railway executives and Banuei G'mp-j ers and of ma.iv representatives eo. -I jployers a.s conference mmbora will bring Ihe two s(d-s of the ques.lon t - I cether. The farmers. Ii was said, arel vitally Interested In tho labor question. ques-tion. The purely agricultural nalnie of the conference, agricultural department officials suid, ha been kep1 lr. mind and the "dirt farmer" will be fully represented. |