The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-15
TENANTRY,
INTEREST RATES,
AND MARKETING
SUBJECT OF CONFERENCE JUST
CLOSED At THE STATE UNlVER-
SITY AT NORMAN - ATTENDED
BY LAWMAKERS.

into farm owners who will aid in
building up communities, educate
their children and add To the wealth
of the state at the same time that they
are adding to their personal holdings
is not thing that can be accomplish
ed by mechanical means. by merely
furnishing TO farmers capital with
which to work at low rates Of inter
est and with a long time in which to
repay 1t takes more than this. 1t
takes more educational advantages
for country children more education
al service to parents, a development
of the community interest and the
co operative spirit, the elimination o.
those middlemen who are not produc.
ers, and it also may take some legis-
lation to prevent a few men from ac-
quiring large land interests.
This was the decision of the con
ference on farm tenantry, interest
rates to farmers and marketing o.
farm products, called by the extension
division of the University Of Oklaho-
ma, which ended its two days ses-
sion Wednesday night The meeting
was attended by more than Il score
of state senators and representatives.,
besides state officers, educators, ed
itors and farmers. The full report of
the meeting, including every address
and all the discussions, as taken down
by a stenographer, are to be published
by the extension division of the uni
versity and sent out free over the
state if funds can be made available.
Experts Talk.
DR.. II. c. Taylor of the University
of Wisconsin,; Elmer r. Brown, for
merly Of the Chamber of Commerce
of Oklahoma City: John 4. Simpson
of Weatherford: George Bishop of the
Oklahoma Farmer Stockman; w. D.
Hargraves. editor of the Chickasha
Ruralist: George Wilson of the Okla
homa 4. & NJ. College. and DR.. A. II.
Adams of the University of Oklahoma
were the men who gvae regular ad.
dresses Tuesday night and Wednes-
day. The informal discussions were
participated in by a score of men,
farm owners, Legislators. educators,
tenant farmers. bankers and others
who attended the meeting.
{. e. Brown Discusses Credits.
Elmer L. Brown was the leading
speaker of the Tuesday night session.
"The strong and the weak points Of
the federal farm loan act" was hls
subject lie declared that the real
value of the new law TO the farmers
of Oklahoma depended almost entirely
upon the personal element in the han
ding of the fund. on the feNibi,ity
with which it was administered. This
thing Of Transforming the tenant into
a farm owner is not a mechanical job"
he declared "It takes time. ID takes
education and it takes cooperation"
lie declared one of the faults OF tho
law to be the fact that the borrower
must begin at once 10 repay the loan.
This does not give him time to get
returns from Investments I'm live
stock unless he borrows enough to
make the first payments back.
Carl Williams Says Cooperate.
Carl Williams of the Oklahoma Far
merSiockman declared that under th"
system now used in most sections Of
the state cotton, corn, wheat ana
other products OF the farm were
bought by the middlemen, not on the
basis OF what they We're worth, but
Tor the least money for which the
farmer could be induced 'o SELL
'Ihere are no" sixty four co.opera-
tive elevators IN oklahoma Doe said
These handled tWo-iliths of The wheat
during the past year and with one or
Two exceptions they have been q sue