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Show ; Atti AicwlturalUt See. Farm Board's Jot ... -,. The aaw Agricultural Marketing Act 'approaches faro rsllet from a uatert-' uatert-' ally different point of view from that of former bUU before Congress In re- ' east roars, aaye Dean H. U Bussell of ' Wlseonsla University College of Agrt-ealtnre Agrt-ealtnre In the American Bankers As-aoetatloa As-aoetatloa Journal "It eoaUlns a new Idea, fraught with tha greatest possibilities he organisation organi-sation of a Federal Farm Board," he says. "It has been possible for farm ooopsratiTSS to borrow from Federal, aided, institutions before, and at a materially ma-terially lower rate than city business ' "mea bad to nay for working capital, bat this is the first set-up made by 'As government in which a commission commis-sion has been carefully chosen to glre aadivtded attention to an. effort to aolve the problems of a farm group. It Is hard to conoelT of a higher legree of responsibility than must be sssamed by this commission. No board yar created by congressional action' has bean clothed with as wide plenary powers. It la authorised not only to idrise ut to execute, to plan and put lta plana Into effective action, to buy iad hold, to dump, to dip into the . radereT treasury to accomplieh its mda with what would be almost aa-Jnltai aa-Jnltai resources to any prirata com-narclal com-narclal concern. 1 Tbe board's only Jet la to succeed, and no governmental govern-mental agency area during the-war ' Ime emergency had a wider latitude. ' "Many will think tha farm relief ' irogram will be universally applicable m the Individual land owner or oper. Ur. Such procedure Is tar from the ,m isA la to be extended through cooperative organltationa by making X -t aosslble for such groups to obufn aah advances to hold crops so as to ' Mrmlt of more orderly marketing, f 7 - ."While the primary relation Is with oeoperatlves. the Individual or unor-. unor-. gaalsed farmer will also profit by the aettvltlea of his nrsanteed fellows. If a stabilised rro .n of morchanillsltig , liable to fli'mta theaurplujea tha' |
