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Show BANKER-FARMER MEETING NOTES A conference of bankers and fanners fann-ers of the Firth Federal Reserve District Dis-trict held recently at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the auspices of the American Bankers Association Agricultural Agri-cultural Commission, adopted the following fol-lowing principles: "In order to encourage and promote a safe, lane and constructive system of farm practices, the Banker and Farmer Conference of the Fifth Federal Fed-eral Reserve District would make the following recommendations with reference ref-erence to the activities of farmers and bankers on which to concentrate efforts during the coming year: "1. Encouragement of loans by bankers bank-ers to bright and deserving young men and young women who w'sh to go to college to study agriculture and home economics. "2. Promote in a rational and conservative con-servative way the economic Increase in the productiveness of the soils ot the district so that a larger unit of crop production may be secured. Small unit yields of necessity are expensive while moderate to large yields of crops are generally the cheapest Larger yields per acre coupled with a reduction In the acreage, acre-age, when advisable, should and usually usu-ally will be more profitable and when handled properly will not lead to an over-production. "3. Encouragement of a proper system sys-tem of diversified farming In which farmers will grow as far as practical all the food and feel crop. neccsarv for feeding the family and livestock of the farm, and to keep on the farms the requisite kinds and amounts of livestock best to meet the economic needs of farming. "4. To formulate and put In motion definite plans for rsrrylng ut this program, It Is urited that the Agricultural Agri-cultural College of the District put a county arent In every county snd that a banker-farmer conference be called to meet early In the fall at the agricultural college of each State." |
