The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-12-16
From the Investment News.

Kansas, Iowa and Texas farmers demand and deserve a square deal
their crops AM proper credit 60 finance them ma be a passing incident in
the worlds industrial REIMBURSEMENT, but it bears al important relation to-
III deep, quiet evolutionary and orderly transition which, is going o IN tn
great American farming Industry Us a result of the war.
IN Withholding their grain fl n market in a probably fatal attempt:
to force TIL price OF wheat u p to 81 a bushel when mere Is al oVersuppy
of wheat farmers of hi wheat growing states are not pursuing a Simon.
rw the seed drill are n longer tn simple poetcs symbols o. q mvtn-
cal pastoral bliss and abundance, but the practical working tools Of al In
to exercise that power in a way that will bring results. America las never,
seen a farmers strike and probably never will. But the farmer can ask
field that would be hard for anybody to answer and he a rake up enough
past history to justify him n going to any length at this late day to get his.
share.
To the undoubted fac. that there is too much wheat in the world for it
% sell at So a bushel the farmer will reply that he answered the call for
to be asked to ~ dumn his Wheat AZ 80 or less when i it was PRODUCED o. a
and distributor sell his goods or services correspondngy down o the
farmer may buy nor labor, supplies, fertilizer and machinery or his
The farmer has been accused of holding out hungry humanity be-
cause h did no dispose Of all his previous crop IS 10 as it a la
vested. He has stood false charges that would have shaned the worst
profiteer. But seldom has he been commended for using good business
Judgment exactly as it is exercised lin the best managed industries, when
he hs practced or tried to practice very sound principles in spreading
ut the saleo f his wheat to stabilize the market and prevent spasmodie
tunity at crop making to gather in great yields IF wheat at low prices to
be passed n to TIT consumer later at prices as high a. If the market new
had seen a recession.
1t would require more than an expert hair splitter to define the differ
oo0G,o tons o raw materials used in industry o prevent a too rapid breas
in prices, and carrying On credit a part oft the wheat crop IN the farms to
how, Tor the world WI not buy more than it needs; but it will be carried
over in such manner a sto put the profit from prices stabilized to the con
line into the pockets of somebody besides the farmer.
Farming is naturally a speculative undertaking, the farmer e natural
appear with an early frost. Even with all the uncertainties of weather
and other conditions beyond his control the farmer knows that under the
gree law of averages he "a max nut But he has learned lat he ever
a make OF if he is hoodwinked by a shell game which shows him So for
a bushel of wheat when he is producing it in June and only So a busheI
have the farmer curtail his crops in the future and thwart the yer doc
tne of increased production preached from every housetop as the only
way back to abundance and comfort a attentive and sympathetic er
must be turned toward the tiner of the soil n sincere minds must devise
culture The credit it needs and provide a fair market for its crops, or the
day will cone when 1T will make the market OF its W terms