The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-12-16
'ARM BUREAU CONVENTION
AT INDIANAPOLIS
CONTINUED from last week.

Our work with the Income Tax DIV
lsion of the Treasury Department
should not only save time and trouble
for every farmer who uses the system
authorized, but in many cases will
save no small amount of cash.
81 am sure that the best growers of
Utah would attach a high value to the
services rendered them indirectly
through the Department Of Justice in
getting a satisfactory contract arrange
ment with the factories in that state.
Likewise the raisin growers of Califor-
MIA had reason to appreciate services
rendered by us in interceding at Wash
ington at the time of their recent in
junction suit.
1.-The million and a half dollars re-
stored to the agricultural appropria-
tons bill through the efforts of the
Farm Bureau cannot be spoken of eX-
actly as saved but it prevented the
Generalization and perhaps destruc-
ton of the county agent system.
But all these cash savings are small
in comparison with the increased in
come that would result from the adop-
ton of the policy of opening foreign
markets, which we have been so ar
IDENTIFY advocating. Fol the past six
months we have been almost the sole
advocates of the principle of helping
ourselves ont of a bad economic situa-
ton by helping Germany and other
foreign countries to buy our products.
Ours is the only really constructive
| suggestion that has been made in this
connection. Holding of crops, striking
cutting down acreage destruction of
gins and sranaries, are all ararchistic
and destructive measures and get no
nowhere in the end. What we need is
constructive methods, more production
and better distribution; then we can
all have more goods to divide and use.
We have no real SURPRISES but as long
as everyone is waiting for lower prices
prices will go lower. Once let us start
buying again and prices will advance
to a higher, but reasonable and read
justed level. European countries need
our goods as badly as we need pur-
Chasers, just now.
81 feel safe in saying that some such
plan as those now under discussion
which will extend credit to Central
European countries will be put into
effect SOON, and will be a powerful
factor in raising farm crop prices.
"The commodity financing and cred
il measures that we are working on
will go far toward preventing a recur-
renee of the recent disastrous slump
which has cost the farmer billions of
dollars.
"The development or air nitrogen
and other cheap sources of fertilizers
can mean more to farming than any of
Us quite realize today l believe. We
hope to be able to effect material saw
ings in this direction.
"Prosposed tariff measures will have
a very real dollar value to the farmer
who is now faced with the prospect of
producing beef wool corn, vegetable
oils, beans, lemons and certain other
crops in competition with similar pro-
Quoted in South America and the
Orient under standards of living un-
thinkable to a self respecting Ameri-
can.
These are but a few of the projects
| that the American Farm Bureau feder-
alton hopes to successfully prosecute
through it's legislative office. There
are a dozen more measures l might
mention but with which most of you
| are familiar I believe.
These are all matters which are
extremely important almost vital, I
might say, to the future prosperity of
American Agriculture.
agriculture has need of an organic
alton as big and as powerful as 1t is
possible TO develop. Agriculture has
| problems to solve in the next ten years
I, bigger and more vital TIA any that
have confronted the tiller of the soil
since the days of the pioneer"