Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12
FARM FINANCING
MUST Be AIDED
ACTUAL GROWERS OF CATTLE,
GRAIN, FRUIT AND vEGE-
TABLES FEEL LACK.
CONFERENCE AT CHICAGO
Ask Soil Surveys to Help In Having
All Available Land Settled on
Resolutions Are Adopted and
Speeches Made.

Chicago.-Cattle raisers, economists
of the colleges and the government,
plain farmers, marketing experts to
the number of 500, who have been
holding the fourth national confer
ence on marketing and farm credits,
completed their labors Saturday.
They took up problems involving
farm finance, putting the landless
man on the manless land, efficient
marketing, conservation and rural de-
velopment, and suggested remedial
procedure in resolutions adopted on
Saturday
Resolutions and speeches showed
that the actual growers of grain,
cattle, fruit and vegetables believe
they are not obtaining proper re-
turns for the labor and investment
because they are not organized and
do not work comparatively; that the
waste by present methods, or the
lack of them, is of appalling magni-
tude and makes it easy for the le-
gion of middlemen to initiate the cost
of living; that Europe has much to
teach us about cooperative agricul-
ture, and that it is up to congress
to study the whole situation and APP
ply remedies accordingly.
Products Do Not Reach People.
The whole sorry picture of fruits
and vegetables rotting in the fields
while residents of the cities paid ex-
orbitant prices for the proportion
which, by manipulation or otherwise,
reaches the urban markets, was pre-
scented. The conference, according to
its sponsors, has at la tsercahed a
position where something is being
accomplished for the farmers.
Market commissioners of 20 states,
named to assist the farmer and the
consumer by giving expert advice on
proper crops to raise, where to send
them, what they are worth, how to
organize for mutual benefit and the
like, met under the presidency of
W. G. Sholtz, market commissioner
of Idaho. w. A. Sherman of the new
federal office of markets and rural
organization explained to them how
the federal government proposes to
cooperate with them.
The National Agricultural Organi-
zation society met informally. This
society was formed to help the farm
er to organize and to provide him
with expert advice in efficiency meth
DDS necessary to his community de-
velopment 1t was reported at the
meeting that the society has helped
to form scores of cooperative organ
izations during the year of its ex-
istence
Need Short-Time Credit System.
The resolutions express the belief
that farm loan bonds will be readily
salable, but remarks the necessity
for a system of short-time credits in
addition for the farmer. Legislation
to this end is asked of congress.
In the matter of getting more
settlers on the land the resolutions
recognized the excellent purpose OF
the Croaser bill, but opposed that
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petual bureaucratic contro land tend
ing to develop a dependent peas
antry"
Ask Live Stock Investigations.
Congress is asked to have the fed
eral trade commission investigate the
marketing of live stock and to study
whether government or cooperative
owned packing plants would stimu
late live stock production.
A paragraph was devoted to the
emphatic assertion that the farmers
protest against any embargo or ex
port duty on foodstuffs.
The resolutions remark that there
is some doubt whether government
loans can be legally laid on lands
which form a part of irrigation drain
age or reclamation districts, on &C
count of the lien against these lands
for the bonds that are outstanding
1t is recommended that this point b'
cleared up by legislation If neces
sary.