Show Fundamentals for the Farmer The address made by Charles B. president of the American Farm Bureau at that organization's recent annual meeting was notable by any laid down a set of fundamentals that are basic to a sound and successful The first Is freedom to change to make shifts in farm operations in response to variations in supply and That he then pointed has been restricted by government pricing and acreage control A second fundamental and to many minds this will seem the most important of all is a free market for farm a market in which farmers are free to sell their products at any at any and in any quantity for the best price One of the features such a Shuman pointed is that it clears And he gave as a concrete example of the past we have pro livestock and dairy products at an all-time high rate in a relatively free and yet we have little accumulation of surplus Consumers have increased their consumption of and poultry products and farmers have marketed A the increased volume at prices which have resulted in improved farm Still another fundamental is the opportunity to accumulate capital to own Here Shuman made a trenchant of the greatest barriers to the accumulation of capital is high In high taxes arc a result of the public demand for more and more government Farmers have been as guilty as other folks in their demands for the subsidies and protection that big government This is but a brief summary of a long address that deserves the widest possible Shuman pointed to the road that can lead to the greatest long-run material benefit for the farmer even as he keeps his Indiana 4 |