Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14

year and the country child S25. while
in Kansas the city child receives soo
and the country child less lnan saY;
wrong. The child of the country
should have as good opportunities TOT
education as the child OF the city. II
is our children who form our greatest
national asset and I believe 1t Will pay
the nation to take care of all OF them
Irrespective of the fact whether they
live in the city or country.
Ry and by the talk drifted from the
schools to the crops and from the
crops to the best means OF getting
money out of them. He talked OF Co
operation and organization as regard
ing farm life, and then took up the de-
partment of markets. for which Con-
gress has just appropriated SJoOoo ana
for which more money VIII oe au
yanced as needed
The Secretary believes in co-opera-
ton among the farmers He says that
the farmer has the biggest business on
earth In the amount or the proouct
that he gives to the world. and that
in comparison with other big businesses
he gets the least out of 1t. He thinks
this Is largely due to the lack of or
ganization. The farmer does not know
how to buy nor how to SELL He pur-
chASeS
expensive and Objectionable credit sys-
tenn, and everything he buys is from
organized capital, which Is often oper-
ated as a monopoly. Almost every.
thing he sells is to organized capital
or it goes to middlemen or spectators
or to commission merchants whose
operations as semi-public agents are
almost unregulated.
The department Of public markets
will look into these matters. 1t will
= od hU fnveS-
tigate the conditions under which the
various products are sold and will give
information to each locality: 1t VII,
deal with grading and packing and
In such matters. the Secretary says,
the government can only suggest ana
show the farmers how to go to work
1t cannot act as lnarketer nor VIII
1t buy the produce OF the farmers
will only show him how to make the
most money out Of his goods
As 1t IS now. the Secretary believes
that our farmers are raising enough 70
make their business pay We'll Our
Agricultural Department and the agricul-
tural colleges and experiment stations
have for years been doing what they
could to increase the crop The mission
of the department for the next adfn,n
istration will be not only TO continue TINS
but also to show them how to get the
most money out Of their crops, and no"
to get the best results from their lapors.
He wants in the first pace to make
country life more livable. and at the
same time to make 1t more profitable.
Speaking OF the crops. I asked the Sec
rotary as to OR food supply OF the
future, saying that many people thought
the nation was in danger OF starving.
He laughed as he replied:
There is but little danger OF that we
are on the edge of our beginning IN
productive agriculture We have enough
land and enough good soil to produce
more than we shall need for many years
to- come It is ridiculous to talk OF a
continent like this or hemisphere IKE
this reaching the limit OF Its proouction.
AS yet we have only scratched the sur
face and by organization and intensive
agriculture we can multiply our present
output many fold. What we want IS
organization and intelligent cooperation
and that on the part OF the government
of the nation and the states. as Wei as
of our individual farmers. II the more
settled states would take the matter Ia
hand they could stimulate their people
into producing enough live stock a. Q
by-product to xx1e consieerSoie