The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-04-07
SPECIAL PAGE DEVOTED TO THE FARMING
INTERESTS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY
BANKERS INTERESTED IN
&Lt FARMER

ny our lnVlIaIlOn 10 EXPRESS tHIOu6i
your publication my ideas of how the
tribute to the cause of agriculture gives
me the opportunity to say that no class
of business men have more vita
relation to the prosperity and stabil
ity of the farming industry than do the
bankers" said a recent letter from %
II. Meredith, secretary of agriculture.
The foresight and sympathetic inter
est of the bankers have, played an
important part in the advance Of ag
riculture in this country and they are
in position to render even more help
full cooperation in the future. So long
as the farmer must contend in his bust
ness with the elements of chance, he
must be supported by the confidence
that back OF him is his banker, ready
and able and willing to come to his aid
in time of drought, flood, storm, in
sect visitation or other mist rtune.
Help from the banker in such times
of stress is seldom particularly haz-
iardous for the banker. DrOughts may
and army worms may follow a cyclone,
but the land will always be there and
continue to produce. There is no
greater certainty of permanency Or
ultimate return in any industry. This
is a point that should be more gener'
ally appreciated by bankers Bankers
should also have constantly in mind
that whatever is done for better farm,
ing inevitably must react to the benefit
of the banker and all business. The
banker as well as the farmer will draw
schools. more ample. marketing facili:
ties, better rural living and social
conditions, more labor saving ma
chinery, better supplies Of farm labor.
These things mean u prosperous and
COMMENTED farmers, whose production
year after year is the basis Of prosper.
ity in the individual community and
in the nation 1T large.
THE farmers are ready to do their
part In what must be a cooperative eff.
fort to reduce the cost of getting farm
products from the producer to the con.
sumner. No business men should realize
better than the bankers that any re.
duction that may occur in the farmers
returns should be preceded, or at least
accompanied, by corresponding reduc.
tons in the prices Of the things the
farmer must buy. nd IS Il III 81
Bankers, and all other business
men as well, should interest them.
selves in the problems Of the farmer
and aid him in securing facilities need.
ed in his business They should not
tlLC ct{ootiuAb INV USAA5
made on the farm loan bank system,
which enables the farmer to SECURE
money on favorable terms without
commissions or renewal charges,
finances him to carry on the fundamen.
tai activity of our country, and makes
provision for long time payments that
he may plan ahead where necessary.
The withdrawal of this aid to farmers
would, in my judgment, be blow to
agriculture in America and be harm
full to the country as a whole. There
is a common interest of bankers and
farmers I'M this system. Federal farm
loans encourage landowning, pros,
porous farm citizenry in this country,
That lis the kind Of farmers the banks;
whose chief business it is to provide
the personal credit and working CAPT
tai, desire for their customers.
1.-THE department of agriculture is
doing all in its power to improve agri-
culture, to make 1t profitable, and to
bring about a more satisfactory rural
Me in all itS phases. In the prosecu.
nestly desires the cordial and syn1pa-
sthetic coopera ton sand support of the
bankers and other business men of the
nation, alb Well as OF the farmers, agri-
cultural institutions, and farm organ
izations. 1t is very gratifying to know
that in this it has the active assistance
and cooperation !, Of the American
Bankers association"
-IF,1--
Il "A new and modern sale pavilion is
now an assured fact up at Storm Lake.
The livestock breeders of Buena Vista
county held their annual meeting in
Storm Lake Friday and the project was
further perfected. The pavilion will
be located on the Illinois Central right
of way, just east of the Coulsen &
Kelly warehouse, in Storm Lake. The
meeting of the breeders was largely at
tended and a banquet was given at the
Bradford hotel. New officers were
elected as follows: President, Albert 4.
Hyzer;; vice president. w. L. Danforth;
secretary, Frank F. Barker: treasurer,
John T. Edison. The pavilion at Den:
ison has not mat eriaiized as. yet, and
the prospects are nQt very Encouraging.
So ~ .s.s'5 7[F]-- .ls
d A two.lay salesof Holsteins at Water.
loo recently, at which time 1O8 head Of
cattle were sold. netted the owners $91,-
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