South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-01
MUST SOON SEEK
NEW MARKET is
Export of FOodStuffS on Euro
pean Demand to Fall OF
Gradually.

Although large percentage OF
the record April exports. totaIling
5715.0Oo.OO0, were foodstuas IL is
generally recognized that Euprop-
can demand will not continue at
this high point indefinitely. As for
elsn agriculture revives. the Ameri-
can farmer viii have TO seek new
markets elsewhere, or find new
means OF perpetuating the old mar
kets, II he is 10 maintaif. tho graft
tying export trade Of recent years
with its attendant prosperity
To promote American food inter
ests abroad the department OF ag-
riculture has just sent out its first
agricultural trade commissioner, Ed
ward A. Foley. who viii represent
the bureau Of markets in the united
kingdom David Harreu has like
wise been appointed livestock com
missioner 10 investigate the opening
OF pure bred stock in South Amer
lea. The department OF agriculture.
DO seems. r. keenly alive 20 the
necessity for stimulating foreign
trade in such a manner as 20 as
sure the farmer Of its permanently.
Labor Scarcity Complaint
Scarcity OF farm labor is more
a subject OF complaint west and
south. Bradstdeet's reports. than at
any previous date this year. North
Dakota can use thousands OF men.
Many farmers have solved the labor
problem by using larger implements
and more horses The reduction
effected sometimes approximate
- per cent. The southwest reports
a serious lack Of men 10 carry on
spring blowing and planting and
Kansas farmers are "a trihe ap-
prehensive over getting labor suf-
ficient 10 harvest the banner wheat
crop.
Representative Kansas farmers
have decided that harvest work
da- shall consist OF ten .'ours with
extra pay for overtime, the ordin-
airy wage 10 be soc an hour, or TO
men with teams soc. The Kansas
harvest will begin about June 10.
More than 10000 hands are needed
To Finance Farmer.
John - Hagen, state commissions
cr OF agriculture and labor. explains
that North Dakota through its state
bank has at last found way pro
perry TO finance the farmer Point
ing out that one OF the farmers
gravcst difficulties has been TO get
money when he needed it. and i'm
abundance and declaring that even
the federal land banks leave a wide
gap. owing to the red tape connect
ed with a federal loan. Hagen sub
mits the North Dakota bank as "a
remedy for an these ills. 1t will
make loans as soon as 10000. coo
real estate bonds can be put on the
market
What success the bank will have
remains to be seen Meantime farm
crs Of the middlewest show little
desire To emulate the North Dakot-
ans Like the country at large
they are watching this eXpirement
i'm state ownership and control with
interest not unmiXed with hesita-
ton
Hog Market Drops.
Weakness i'm the hog market con-
tinued early this W elk. despite oc-
Cassional reaction. and prices touch
cd the lowest point since the first
half Of April. Receipts are liberal
Chicago warehouses overflow with
pork products. il is said and pack
err are avcrse 10 paying fancy
prices. The general distribution of
meat products throughout Europe is
cratic and packers do not feel who'll
Is at rest. Some regions have too
much and many others too little.
Swine on the farms increased H.
with 4,1S9.O0O last year
May corn established new records
under the stimulus OF low visible
supplies and light receipts. Weather
conditions and delayed planting
have been factors Visible supplies
were down below 100000 at one