Show THE ROAD BACK TO prosperity many agriculturists that thai they have found the road back to prosperity in ili the minnesota plan which has raised the farm luc knib in the northwest in eight years the plan was drawn up in ili 1921 by frederick E II murphy urphy 1 publisher of the minneapolis tribune who declared that unless the american americ an farmers are pro ous the nation cannot prosper in nn an interesting article on oil the minnesota plan in the current issue of the national republic dellel richford Roch tord says in part today that thal AlInne minnesota sota plan Is being studied by industrial arid and business leaders in georgia texas wash ington anglon state new england the carolinas and wherever the placing a ot apiculture agriculture on oil a sound business basis Is recognized as a fundamental and large factor in restoring regional economic health and curiously enough the finati ce plan which helped to make tile the northwestern farm revolution poss pass lie ile front from 1923 to 1930 Is today seen rs the laboratory test for the great national emergency bank fund po laun launched clied by president Prial dent hoover our particular rii lit in IS continues mr Al murphy urphy v as alic u we were wheat poor daili the fit var with the terri terrific fl demand toi fat dhent for tile tho armies ww oli northwest urn farm va wo iia i i lui the he collapse of the wheat market wo v 0 faced ruinous conditions bank failed lit in large numbers public con call I 1 was shaken even powerful f barths banks were threatened with runs during the war period jand and until 1921 I 1 had been Nor working king out it a shift front from v heat farming to a highly eel ed dalry dairy and livestock tion on my own acre fenico parm at breckenridge ridge minn alinn in the famous red ped river valley As a boj boi i on my mv fathers farm in ili wisconsin I 1 had seen the advantages of getting away front from dependence on oil single raw cash crops and building up tip a year j around farm faim income based on ellb larger returns of 0 finished farm products such as butter eggs and meats when I 1 became publisher of tile the minneapolis in 1921 the hort hvest was vas economically at f r standstill all our business and in austry I 1 was aa involved in ill the farm situation and that patient pat lent was ft as ii t very oi sick mau mail nothing short of a oie ore pation could save him YA let scattered here and there in every legion ot of the northwest North sest vere individual farmers who succeeding in spite of the wheal crash and those farmers are aie ie ic tor loi tile the coming into being of 01 the plan we studied tile tha most successful farmes lit in every region legion and then we ve urgel the spread of their methods to the other farms of tile the district Thou thousands rands of wheat farmers we renti i raising their own vegetables lege tables they 1 had ad no ila cow no pigs no chickens he wheat soils qi lack of natural manure fertilizers were vide be coming spent per acre product loh had dwindled until the per pei busiel costs of the wheat heat made any hope of rale file at even normal wheat irice levels highly unlikely 11 lit jt was evident that the roal road back to prosperity for foi the northwest wag nas on the barms we had to get tho the farmer out of the wheat business and into the wv cow sow sov lien hen and crops but the farmers were mortgaged to tile the hilt somebody had to provide the money for the revolution of the farm practice and so BO it was that the agricultural Agil Agli cultural credit corporation of minneapolis caine came into the picture |