The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-22
WOULD CREATE NEW. BOARD FOR FARMER.
Secretary Wallace Plans Cre- alton of Body to Handle
 Marketing Plans
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau, The Age-Herald,
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Washington. September 2i.-(Spe- cial. )-The creation of new board, with wide powers, has been recom- mended to Secretary Wallace by the economic committee. appointed by the secretary to outline plans for complete reorganization of the de- pertinent Of agriculture.
 The enforcement of the four great regulatory acts--the grain standar~s act, the cotton futures act, the stand ard containers act and the United States warehouse act--are to be in- trusted to new board to be called the federal agricultural marketing board, if the plans of the reorgan- izing committee, headed by pr. T.. D. Ball, assistant secretary of az iiculture, are carried out. Secretary Wallace has already given his in- dorsement to the move.
 As one of the principal steps in far-reaching reorganization, the eco homie committee has recommended the formation of bureau of agri- cultural economies, under which will be brought nine important research activities, dealing with production and distribution. 1t has been learned that Secretary Wallace, in the next agricultural appropriation bill, will ask for authority and ap- provai of the merger of the office of farm management and farm eco monies with the bureau of markets and crop estimates. The budget es- inmates which have been sent to Di- rector Dawes, provide for this consol- idation, which has already been put into effect, administratively.
 The secretary has stated that the reorganization has been planned in the interest of economy and good ad- ministration." The regulatory activ- ities of the department will be sepa- rated from the research and infor- national work of the bureau, the idea being that the administering Of these laws should be placed under d single unit. Secretary Wallace, upon assuming his duties, declared that agricultural depression always pro- ceeded from economic conditions, and emphasized that everything which influences both production and price should be carefully weighed and con sidered. The bureau of agricultural economics was projected to meet these needs, the activities of the di- visions, starting with the economies of business of production on the farm following the course of the products through storage and distrt- button. The members of the coun- cil who drew up the plans were: Dr, E. D. Ball, assistant secretary of az riculture, chairman; Dr. H. C. Tay- Tor, Dr. W. A. Taylor, chief, bureau of plant industry; pr. J. R. Mohler, chief. bureau of animal industry, and l. M. Estabrook, associate chief of the bureau of markets and crop es- inmates.
 Before it was finally adopted the council consulted with experts, and Dr. Thomas F. Hunt, dean of the college of agriculture, University or California; Andrew Boss, professor o. farm management. University of Minnesota G. F. Warren, professor of farm management, Cornell uni- versity; G. l. Christie, director of the Indian experiment station, Purdue university, and Prof. T. F. Cooper, director of the University of Ken lucky experiment station.
 There are to be nine large research divisions, and an extension service, farm management, cost of production and distribution, land economies, country life and rural organization, agricultural prices and statistics, agricultural adjustments. agricui- tural finance, agricultural compeu- tion and demand in foreign countries and marketing farm products.
 The extension service, dealing with publications state cooperation, dc emonstration, grades, standards and marketing methods would be an- other branch of the bureau.