The Detroit times., 1915-12-13
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ar1ner Gets One-third
Of "a Billions Paid
for Crops
RURAL CREDIT
EXPERTS MEET
Nin Discuss Problems
Of Agriculture in
United States

Nj CHARLESTON. 8. c.. Dec. l3.--
t5fIns billion dollars is the price
EaAmoricAn farmers gel for their
rVpg every year. while enough is
201&ed by middlemen SO that the
4 rSonsumers pay $27. 900. .oo0. 900 for the
;nyne crop, according TO the state
4 ut Of rural credit and marketing
iorts before the Southern Com
Gscial Congress, which opened here
Nv. The House Of Southern Gov
nQrs also began q ive-day meeting.
ffcn. credits anc commerce VIII be
5 - III subjects most discussed by
ttn bodies. Peace and prosperity
|11o viii have place on the program.
Members Of the congress were
81 speakers favoring rural
111t legislation that the farmer
- Is cents aud the middleman 65
f1ifs u each dollar the consumer
- lor the farmers crops. There
~ onormous amount OF waste, es-
na1y a perishable products, be-
- q the lack OF . central. direct
market Intelligence. they said.
- aelegases were welcomed by
11ee John p. Grace. Of Charleston,
Rhstt, president Of the Cham
~ Commerce. and Richard l.
n1ne, eOvernor Of South Caro-
senator Duncan U. Fletcher,
g11a, president of the congress-.
~ annual address. John Bar
Garector of the Pan-American
|tnv a1so spokA
~ Louise q. Lindsley, Nash
pfucldeut Of the WomAn's aux
~ 6Doneds the meeting OF that
15n&ion this afternoon. Mrs.
1EOth, New York. president Of
S1lo6n1 Housswives' league.
% lgatG Gordon. Now Orleans:
1ohn hyperion and Mrs. Rut-
Gmifh. Tennessee: Mrs. ID. A.
nl1. OklahOma, and other
cnont southern women. also
tnight Dr.. Nicholas Murray But
p Columbia university, New
11u soak on ''The Changed
= ana 1 number Of southern
1Gnoss vfll join In an informal
ocn ef Cotton. Commerce and
n1 Cfodfis.s
1nocutives were invited here
oS, Manning, Of South Carolina,
~ purpose Of organising the
n6o e southern governors The
rOep 1t this and subseQuenf
$3.50 win discuss problems OF
nf1on and law enforcement of
onnue % the south" said DR.. C.
)Uoa, q the congTess.
>HCr features of the program for
Govonth annual convention Of
U1hozn commercial congress
& GJllSntiou Of the Atlantic neet.
toor oe the secretary Of the
ISoblllxntjon Of the National
r1 q South Carolina. conference
= D6u(hsrn Cotton Congress. con-
|oHoo q Nsticnal Drainage Con- |
ou1, eoufefsnce of Southern Com
9eloy 9ecretaries. Rural Credits
InHsFence under personal guidance
x David Lubin, American Delegate
- the international Institute Of Agrt
onlkare, Rome, Italy. conference Of
T0nkue 20 Enforce Peace. Of which
~ asyrosident Taft Is president, 10 he
oGlded over by President Lowell.
Gk Harvard: conference on CONNER
NJ Uducation In Relation to For
|xonn and Domestic Commerce. TO be
Dvoaided over by DR.. Glen Levin
W1aEett, assistant secretary geper-
~ q the international Scientific Con-
krooo; meets OF the American Com
un6sg1ou on Agricultural organization.
fUx3tod States Commission on Rural
pre4its. end the National Marketing
\ sCoonmlttee, the three organizations
*1nl1ed % meet IN Charleston by Sen
!. ntoP Duncan U. Fletcher. chairmar
~ N three bodies. and q conference
~ Agrlcultural immigration and
labor, called by William b. Wilson,
,oocretary of labor.