The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-12-01
Better Methods Of Marketing Urged
by Speaker at Third Day Ses-
sion OF National Con.
ference
FARMER SHOULD
SEEK LEGISLATION
National and State Action to Pro-
vide Rural Credit and Improve
Condition Of Farm Ten
ants is Advocated

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CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. Farmers of
the east are not getting what is com
ing to them for milk, Milfrel Wheeler,
Boston, secretary of the Massachusetts,
board of agriculture told the national
conference of marketing and farm
credits in its third days session today.
Farmers are at the mercy of the big
dealers, who pay farmers what they
see fit, he said.
Cost of distribution of milk is too
high. he said. By cooperation and
better business methods, he MAIN
tanned, this cost would be materially
reduced. People of the United States.
Wheeler said, should be taught to
drink more milk, as it is wholesome
food, that is cheap even at the present
price.
Only when the American farmer acts
for himself by advocating legislation,
to foster and provide new economic
machinery, viii there be better mar
keting conditions and adequate credit
facilities, according to David Lublin,
American delegate to the International
Institute Of Agriculture at Romc,
today. In Germany, he said, the gov
ernment advocated marketing legis-
lation, because the farmer was not
considered sufficiently progressive.
The result has been excellent eco
nomic conditions, of which Germany
rightfully boasts. he claimed.
National and state legislation, to
provide the credit facilities which
would make it possible for tenant
farmer and farm laborer to acquire
farm land, was urged by John Lee
Coulter, dean of the college of agricul-
ture at West Virginia university. The
steps he would take to attain those
ends are:
An act of congress providing for a
complete scheme of farm land banks.
Legislative acts of various states
supplementing the national laws and
providing for state institutions to do
various phases of the mortgage busi-
ness which the national farm land
bank would not care to undertake.
Legislation by various states, sim
plifying laws pertaining to titles,
deeds, foreclosures and exemptions.
An up-to-date bureau of farm lands,
with complete lists of farms for sale
and farms for rent, and all possible
details about these lands.
A thorough scheme of rural educa-
ton with country organization so pro-
vided that the country headquarters
would have complete list and careful
rating of every farm operated within
the county
Such state legislation as is a neces-
sity to take over by some public serv-
ice corporation, land not already de-
veloped--these lands to be developed,
parceled out and sold at advantageous
terms to select farmers who do not
own any land, but who are seeking to
become permanent settlers, living
upon and operating their own farms.
Team work by existing marketing
agencies, was urged as the solution OF
the marketing problems, by George P.
Hampton, Washington. secretary Of
the national marketing committee.
Better banking facilities, lower rates
Of interest, more efficient Transports
! ttion, at lower freight rates, AMI better
merchandising were some of the
things he suggested for reform. The
banker, merchant and railroad man
are up against marketing the crops,
he said. These agencies. he claimed.
have been going it alone" to secure
the ends that would better be secured
through team work.
Fred W. Davis, commissioner of ag-
riculture in Texas. told last night how
the state warehouse commission law
permitted the farmer to hold his cotton
for prices that suited him, raising nee
essary money on his warehouse re
ceipts State colonization was urged
by Harris Weingstock, banker and