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Show FARM SLUMP REASONS GIVEN I Lack of Good Marketing and Storage Facilities Held Foremost CHICAGO, Oct. 19. Four factors have been more effective th.in freight 'rates in the business deflation which the f irmer has felt so keenly. Donald I G. Con, former chief of tho division divi-sion of transportation of the congressional congres-sional Joint commission of agricultural Inquiry, tl d the Farm Equipment I Manufacturers association here today j The four major factors he enumerated enumer-ated Were 1. Lacjc of stablllzod foreign anil domestic markets. 2. Lack of organized methods of marketing and distribution. 3. Lack of proper warehousing and storage facilities. 4. A change In method of financing the farmer. "If the public expects the fallroads to participate In periods of depression, certainly It should allow them to share I equally with other Industries when prosperity return's." Mr. Conn said. The relationship of freight costs to farm prices were quite constant from! 1910 to 1916, when tho great Increase i In farm prices began reaching Its I maximum In June, 1920. There were practically no Increases In freight j rates In 1916 or 1917 and from 1917 I to 1920 they Increased far more slowly slow-ly than did the price of farm product- The arllroads did not participate partici-pate in those years of general pros-, pcrity." |