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Show HARDING SPREADS WORDS OF CHEER BELIEVES NATION HAS PASSED WORST PHASE OF AGRICULTURAL AGRICUL-TURAL DIFFICULTIES Letter From Chief Executive Read to Farmers of Minnesota Contains Words of Encouragement to All Tillers of the Soil Crookston, Minn. The general Industrial In-dustrial and business situation now is such as to Justify confidence that "we are well past the worst phase of the agricultural crisis," declared President Presi-dent Harding, In a letter read to farmers farm-ers attending the annual Red River valley farm crop and livestock show here. "The improvement is well begun and will continue steadily from this time forward," said the letter, which was addressed to C. G. Selvig, superintend-1 ent of the Northwest School of Agriculture. Agri-culture. After expressing regret that he was unable to deliver personally his message, mes-sage, President Harding's letter referred re-ferred to the recent national agricultural agricul-tural conference in Washington, and continued : "I am glad to say that my utmost anticipations of useful results from that gathering were more than realized. real-ized. "The fine spirit of cooperation among the farmers and the disposition on their part to unite their efforts in every possible way with those of the government, augurs particularly well for our hope of accomplishment. The conference gave serious and thorough consideration to the problems before It and presented practicable proposals propos-als for doing practical and worthwhile things. "In the general industrial and business busi-ness situation there is much to justify confidence that we are well past the worst phases of the agricultural crisis that Improvement Is well begun and that it will continue steadily from this time forward." |