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Show urn PP?0MF MORE LIE CiT Self-Sastaining Tiller of , Soil Has Passed, Howard Observes N'F.W YORK i'ebl 17. City folks are wrong when they have an idea t'li.-i- iht fiirftjer Is BClf-stistphiing and can live off his products no matter I WheMifcl' i let for liien. ate low or i v.ii i t iareil ' -Hues ) Howard pres-i pres-i i- ut of the American I" im Bureau I federation, ir. vn adrlress Thursdaj before be-fore the American AHMoclatlon of Ad- 1 ert iting AgenctM He said he and his neighbors let ihelr orchards run down, and were buying fruit nowadays because it paid I them better to spend all their time In fields Instead of spraying trees. He i had not a churn In his home for 15 years. Mr Howard said, although he I o nod many cows. He sells his milk I to a creamery and buys butter for his table, because of inability to get help-era- So you see. wo are commercial farmers," he said. ' Ilfe on the farm and life In the city ar bound together In a ahaln which cannot be unlinked. We must rlbo or fall together In u business way, the bottom has been reached by the farmer, he Is looking up. He cannot look anywhere else, because he Is on his back. I believe I things are getting better, but it is a long road ahead along which American agriculture will need your help |