The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-16
NEED
LOWER RATES
FOR FREIGHT
One Man Receives $3.50 for a
Car Load of Stock After
Paying All Shipping
Expenses.
CATTLE ARE BEING FED
Suggestions Are Made Through
QUESTIONABLE for the
Solution of Farm
Problems.

n ldTl1tI IN sStOuudru tOuillN shpptu
a car load Of live stock 10 ST. Louis re-
Gently and after paying the freight. yard
age, commission. etc., he received $3.50
for the stock. II is true that the stock
was probably Of comparatively poor
quality and this is perhaps an extreme
case, says F. A. Logan, agricultural sta
ts,ician for the U. s. Bureau Of Mar
keis and Crop Estimates. but ii is cx-
iremc cases like this and the general
condition which the possibility OF such
extreme cases indicates that makes Mis-
souri, farmers so insisicnt that freight
rates be lowered.
"A farmer in Jefferson County reports
sending a COW 10 ST. Louis by express
and getting Is cents for il after all ex-
pcnses Of shipment were paid.
FARMERS KILL CALVES
Another farmer in report 10 our Of
fee complains that nobody wants his
calves in his own section and he cannot
ship them 10 market without paying more
freight than the calves are worth. Still
another farmer backs up this statement
by reporting that farmers in his neigh
borhood are killing calves as soon as
they =fe born because the cost Of ship.
ping them to market is greater than
what they will sell for He states that
b. is raising some calves on his own
farm because he hates to kill them, but
that unless prices rise he will lose $40
on each one
ouEsTroNNAIRE REPLIES
Replies 10 a QUESTIONABLE sent out TO
Missouri farmers from this Office indi-
cate that the low price Of corn is lead
ing the farmers Of the state TO feed their
corn TO hogs. Farmers are also turning
TO stock feeding 10 some slight extent
in the hope that by the time the cattle
are ready for market the price will have
risen or the freigh, rates will have low
ced. Few farmers at present are favor
ing the feeding Of sheep.
IN reply to questions asking for sug-
gcstions for the solution Of the present
farm situation the following answers have
been reccivcd:- =---.--.-7> 7
"A protective tariff. direct sales by
manufacturers TO farmers. improved mar
ket information published at the times
needed and in a form suitable for the
use OF farmers. set prices on farm pro-
ducts from year TO wear. easier farm
credit. greater crop distribution includ-
ing the inducing Of farmers to grow
more clover, COW testing. stopping Of
back TO the farm" propaganda, analysis
Of cost Of producing grain and live stock.
farm legislation. prevention Of railroad
and factory combines, securing of cheap
fertilizer. arousing Of public conscience
10 Justice of the farmers cause. getting
the producers closer together. raising
The price Of farm products or lowering
the prices on wha. farmers buy. grading
cf live stock and selling by grade. bet
ter distribution Of sales so that cattle
will not sell at cents pound in No
vember and ii cents in July, encourage
meni Of organization among farmers, cut
ting Of the rcd tape" in the Federal
Land Banks and arranging shorttime
loans, encouraging Of boys and girls TO
stay on the farm. economy in all govern
meni departments, getting rid Of sharks
at the head Of the federal government.
encouraging Of farmers TO help them
selves keeping down the issuance q
bends, reduce machinery prices. and
give mere information Of Land Bank
Loans.
SOLUTIONS ARE POSTPONED
Under proposed solutions Of the far.
mer's difficulties were given: Reduction
Of freight rates, more credit, reduction Of
the prices on the products Of other pro.
ducers, reduction Of taxes, reduction Of
interest rates. speeding up Of the process
Of getting Federal Land Bank loans. or.
ganizsiion, reduction Of difference be
tween selling and buying prices Of farm
crs. get producer and consumer together
parity between farmers and other pro
duccs. outlawing Of labor unions, cuttin,
Of average Of farm crops. reduction oI
machinery prices. better trade relation.
with foreign countries, lowering Of fac
tory wages. taxation of organized labor
and more direct sales Of grain and farm
products, farmer selling agencies, do
crease Of production combined with far
mer cooperation.