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Show Farm Board's Advice During the last few weeks the Federal Farm Board has made repeated re-peated appeals to farmers to reduce re-duce their acreage of crops of which there is now a world surplus, especially es-pecially wheat and cotton. The fact that the board has been constrained to make these appeais direct to the farmers is evidence that Chairman Legge and his fellow fel-low members recognize the futility of trying to overcome the law ol supply and demand by artificial means. It is also evidence that the so-called so-called farm relief act will not automatically auto-matically bring relief or prosperity to the American farmer. The farmer must cooperate in at least two ways: He must curtail crops cl which there is a world surplus, and he must organize for cooperative marketing purposes. If the farmers of the country could be induced to do these things themselves there would be little need of a Farm Board or the costly government machinery which its establishment es-tablishment has made necessary. |