The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28
THE FARMERS' UNION |GOES ON ECORD
 FOR MUSCLE SHOALS
National Meeting at Palatka Favors Site Proposed in Alabama for the Gov
 ermaent F1ant
By HUGH W. ROBERTS

 1 Washington, November 2Z-(Special.)
 The Farmers Educational and Co-opera l tive Union of America, in it's annual con vention held in Palatka, Fla, indorsed
 Muscle Shoals in the Tennessee river as
 the most advantageous site for the loca- ] tion of the proposed government nitrate I plant.
 | Copies of the resolutions indorsing Mus 1 cle Shoals were sent to President Wilson 1 and to every member of Congress. In the resolutions, the argument of the farmers ! association is set out. The association is
 national in scope and embraces not only
 the cotton growers of the south, but the agriculturalists of the north and west as we'll
 ! The resolutions follow
 ] Whereas, the worthy efforts of the na- tional and state officials of the Farmers union and the national and state officials | of the Grange fortunately resulted in the
 passage of legislation at the last term 1 lof the Sixty-fourth Congress providing for government nitrate plant, and, l Whereas, the location of this plant is of | the highest possible interest and impor- tance to the fertiizer-using farmers of l the country and to everyone desiring and 1 seeking a reduction in the high cost of 1 living;
 Therefore. the Farmers Educat tional and Cooperative Union of America, as sembled in annual convention at Palatka. ySln nd First, that we most heartily indorse the 1 resolution passed by our national and state officials in connection with the na- tional and state officials of the National Grange on February 8, 1916, in Washing ton, D. C., and we hereby extend our thanks to the Nationai Grange for it's val uable cooperative assistance; Second, that we greatly appreciate the action of President Wilson, when at a ton in Congress he insisted that this item of legislation remain in the military bill; and we also express our gratitude to our friends, in and out of Congress, who aided us in our struggle to pass the provision in the military bill providing for government nitrogen plant; Third, that we indorse and repeat what the representatives of our organization have already insisted upon, that the nj trogen process adopted and the location of the government nitrate plant shall be determined with reference to the agri- cultural interests of this country. and that a site be selected as close as possible 1 to a cheap supply of limestone, coke and phosphate rock, and on a navigable | stream that will most economically facil- litate the cheaper distribution of fertili- gers by water transportation to the largest number of fertilizer users, and l thus relieve the farmers of the country l from one of their heaviest burdens and items of cost in connection with their purchase of fertilizers;
 1 Fourth. that we indorse the Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee river as the l best location for the government nitrate | plant and recommend to the President | that he select this location, since at Muscle Shoals not only is to be found ample cheap water power, but the neces- sary materials for the manufacture of ex- plosiyes as well as for the manufacture of fertilizers can be most economically assembled and the finished products most cheaply distributed to the points of (Continued on Page Twe)