Newark post., 1915-12-08


sued by the U. S. crop reporter.
'In this connection the farmers
of the state will be interested to
know that the National Bureau of
Markets has established policy of
providing trained men in market
ing for various states on what is
known as the half and half plan.
That is, the government bears half
of the man and the State the other
half. In this way the state gets the
advantage of man who is accept
able to the government who has
has had the experience in the ma
tional field and who is in touch
W h the marketing situation
throughout the country, at half his
actual cost. 1t has been thought
that in this State where conditions
are so compact, if such a man
could be obtained he could teach
rural economics at the college part
of the year and organize and direct
a department of markets in the
State the rest of the year.
Another prominent speaker was
DR.. Carl Vrooman, assistant secre-
tary of agriculture, who it will be
remembered made an address at
Delaware College when the Ma
tional Grange visited the college
last year. One statement made by
DR.. Vrooman was that nominally
the cost of shipping a bushel of
wheat from New York to Liverpool
IS cents but that during the past
year it has been 40 cents. There is
no law in force, which regulates
the freight rates on the high seas
and plans are under way by the
present administration to over
come this economic fault during
the coming session of Congress.
"Myron 7. Herrick, former Gov
ernor of Ohio, outlined plan for
financing the farmer s business
which was accepted by many of
those in attendance sound and cas-
lily adapted to present banking
conditions without much difficulty
or expense. One only has to be
familiar with the conditions of the
farmer in other sections of the
country to appreciate the need of
a financial readjustment for the
benefit of the man who produces
the food for our nation. The farm
ers in Delaware who are not fa-
miliar with how the "other half"
lives in agriculture have no appre-
citation of the extremely favorable
conditions agriculturally in Della
ware. For example there are
thousands Of farmers going to the
new irrigation sections in the west
who will have to pay 500 an acre
for raw unimproved land that has
been reclaimed twice by our Ma
tional Government. Reclaimed once
by irrigation which brought so
much alkali to the surface that it
was necessary to drain the land to
carry off the irrigation waters that
held alkali in solution. To think
that such land hundreds of miles
from the markets, miles from rail
roads, schools for churches, sells
for more than highly improved
land in Delaware, makes us Won
der at the mistake of those who are
land hungry"
In conclusion Professor Hay
ward stated that while much dis
cussed at the conference would
not apply to Delaware conditions,
sit is unquestionably true that a
few promiscuous bank laws would
be of good assistance to the farm
ers in Delaware in financing their
business. That all who are inter-
ested in the welfare and prosper
ity of our state should give this
matter careful consideration goes
without saying. While few are
willing to admit that the farmer
should have access to government
help, to the extent that is recon-
mended by some, there are none
want the farmer to be better bus
mess man in order that he can
stand on his own feet and can
stand shoulder to shoulder with
the urban business man in promot-
ing the welfare of the nation"