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Show IFARMERS FACE f NEW PROBLEMS Solution Demands Hearty Cooperation of Grange Says A. C. President -(Special Dispatch i L.OOAX. Jan. 8 The farmers of 1921 arc fating wholly new and extremely ex-tremely Important problems, the solution so-lution of which demands wholehearted co-operation among all memberi of socletv, according to President Eljnor O. reteraon. of the I'tah Agricultural) college. President Peterson declares that the future well bcln of Aiuorl- Can civilization and the very existence of American agriculture depends upon our ability to solvo these problems correctly. An outlined by President Peterson, there nrc two serious problems Plrst, there must be a political and economic econom-ic adjustment that Will insure the farmer u profitable business and swing th population again t.. tin farms and, eeconU. the farmer himself must learn to produce more efficiently standardised products. MAKES MAil.ui VI In a statement recently prepared lor the press b President Peterson the present agricultural situation was analyzed as follows. "Agriculture In the United .'ftHlcs entered a new phase of Its development develop-ment during 11)20. The farmer is HOW facing a set of conditions! ntirels I different from the conditions he faced before or during the war of 1914. She solution of the new problem now before the agriculturist will necessitate Clearest vlilon and caret ulc6i siates-maneraft siates-maneraft if the nro U be correctly ami laritingly solved. 'Agriculture in America, up lo the present, has been largely the beneficiary bene-ficiary of cheap land i hi re has al-ways al-ways been new and fertile land to re-claim re-claim and this land, as 11 has laconic settled and hus given birth to grow-Lm grow-Lm Ing communities, has Increased mar- vtlously in value. The Inst decade has been exceptionally hij-'h pre en .'-.i . products. Before the war farm pro-ducts pro-ducts brought satisfying returns, Dur-lug Dur-lug the war, pi kes rose to extraordln-ao' extraordln-ao' heights, it should he distinctly recalled. howev. r. ih.it the farmoi who unselfishly answered ni call of the nation for increased production during the years of 1117, 1918, ,, .. 1915, has benefited little, from these high prices. With Inelle-lein, M'Ml- ng labor, demanding a lu'li wage, . with Increased costs for equipment, l farmer found thai his cost ol produc-tibn produc-tibn rose tremendously in return, he Aceived but a small part of the. great increase In prices broueht about b) war conditions. The farmer proflt-ored proflt-ored less than any other sroun in' this country during the war and has prospered during the last few years much less than he has deserved "Yet the farmer s now the first to suffer under the present conditions of falling prices Present da' ) lei s for the great staples of the farm and rango wheat, wool, beef, cotton, etc., LsH Taro ue,0H' tne cost of production. Other commodities, including labor, supplies and farm equipment, I quickly see.;, a level comparable to these etaples or agrloultun will ceaso to exhi TWO UI; PROBLl Ms 'Two big un ic u it u i-.i I problems fac e ihis country today for solution. First, tbore must be a political i economical eco-nomical adjustment, which will swing the population back to the farms. Set -ond, the education of the fumer t,, produce efficiently . standardised pi,.. duct must proceed apai c V 'The census of 1920 shows that the I United stales has ceased to be a rural rur-al nation, since. 1910 the country has changed from an agricultural to an industrial state. Today, for the flrt t,lnc In our history, tho majority of our I- people live in tho cities. The essential agricultural indus-irjes indus-irjes must be j-afeguMrcied tl.. i,irlffa if ncccssury An adjufltnoni ot our system of bution is no, ,i..-,i wh. rel a less heavy burden will he laid on , the land -owning farmer who i it I (he same time home hiilldei ami he ,, of ,i family. At the present time n Iin-iuanj peiiuuze uie industry of such a man. in the middle west thi oon-i oon-i dltion Is driving many a man to ten- I ancy and tenancy Is ono of the worst i existing menaces to our aturdv rural democracy. Utah has fortunately escaped es-caped much of this, because our ag-i ag-i riculture is so young and cur civilisa tion so new we hav been aide u, avoid these conditions i "It the agriculture of the na- 1 Hon is to flourish, we must have stionp men on the ur,d. Bilg-Imm Bilg-Imm Voting's theory of stalwart clfl-I clfl-I 'tens tilling the soil, rearing families 1 to stay on the soil, must be accented as a nntlon-wldo policy, if oul- tt,.r, culture ts to be caved. ' "P' only Importance to the . problem of political and economic re-adjustment re-adjustment is the problem of eduea-Mon- Tn average farmer must learn to Produce efficiently a standardized product. The future will oeo a much i r...i . . . ,,' ,,r,,f,i . w . Sff J!;, A """ ntV attention to :hc details of tho business of farmlnr ?0,' acaf checking up on the ceM of producing different crops arld the elimination of waste will all he e essary if the end of the year Is to1 mem l,rflt n thc farml" Invest-1 The farmer must produce poutoei ra1 them in specific grade,, ni; his beef. hogs, sheep, his wool, must be1 m efflclentl produced ami graded . PATTEaW LITER DANISH BjBJgS UUr dairy farmer must paurrn htal isH 2Tirfte' 'hiU f'f thc "'-h farm 1 IsH a . mu8t go 10 Denmark for our1 model n bulIdlnK our m orfora r "ffiueatlon. We must do as Denmark does train our farm hoys to 1 le both Kreat producers and capable and intelligent clttjens. "We an doing thli, In I'Uh in our development of our agricultural experimentation ex-perimentation and agricultural extension exten-sion work In our cxp-rlim niil work we discover, those facts concerning efficient ef-ficient production, which, applied by the fanner with the experience of gen - I erallons behind him, will bring forth standardized cropu efficiently produc-j cd. In our extension work we carry th- ".' f.i.-is ui..nK w,th methods for tttsur application to tho farmer on hlu farm. The- most remunerative Invest-meal Invest-meal which Utah now makes for education edu-cation Is In this agricultural experimentation experi-mentation and extension work Thess servants of the state are annually returning re-turning fifty fold the investment made IB tnem by the state and nation " I |