The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-07

on the ground. A total oil 1O6,0U0
empty box cars were sent west in this /
way. The special cases where train
loads OF fertilizer were made up and |
moved through to Long Island when |
the potato growers there found it inn
possible to get fertilizers in time to
plant their crop; here special train |
loads of seed notatoes, totaling some
1000 cars, were moved out to Maine |
when getting them meant the differ
ence between a crop and no crop; |
where an extra one hundred to one
hundred fifty refrigerator cars per
day were supplied; when The peach
growers of New York found them
selves unable to get cars fast enough
to prevent heavy losses from spoil
age; where special carload shipments
of farm machinery, hay baling wire,
and fruit baskets relieved emergency
situations; and where the securing of
rulings from the prohibition enforce
ment officers of the Internal Reve-
nue. Department enabled cider mills
to reopen and utilize thousands of
bushels of apples in many states-all
these have cash value to those
benefited, which would total many
times the entire dues paid into the
county, state and national farm bu-
reau treasures.
The help brought to the sheep and
cattle men as well as, general farmers,
particularly in the west, by the en-
couragement given thru the Federal
Reserve Board to local bankers ask
ing them to renew farmers loans
wherever possible, undoubtedly saved
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
farmers who would otherwise have
been closed out. 1t is true that but lit
tie immediate help in the way of addi-
tional credit or financing was secured
from the Treasury Department, but
our efforts have been productive of
much earnest thought as to permanent
remedies and have produced on atti-
tude of constructive suggestion and
helpfulness on the part of treasury Of
ficals and others, which we believe
can in the near future be enacted into
permanent relief.
Our work with the Income Tax Di-
vision 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!
/ am sure that the best growers of
Utah would attach high cash value
to the services rendered them indirect
ly through the Departmet Of Justice
in getting a satisfactory contract ar
rangement with the factories in that
state. Likewise the raisin growers of
| California had reason to appreciate
services rendered by us in interceding
at Washington at the time Of their re-
cent injunction suit.
The million and 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
decentralization 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
adoption Of the policy Of opening
foreign markets, which we have been
SO ardently advocating. For the past
six months we have been almost the
sole advocates of the principle of
helping ourselves out of a bad econo-
mic situation 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 granaries, are
all anarchistic and destructive mea-
sures and get us nowhere in the end.
What we need is constructive meth
DDS, more production and better dis
tribution; then we can all have more
goods to divide and use. We have no
real SURPRISES but as long as every
one is waiting for lower prices, prices
will go lower. Once let us start buy
ing again and prices will advance to
higher, but reasonable and read
justed level. European countries need
our goods as badly as we need pur-
chasers, just now.
/ 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
it measures that we are working on
will go far toward preventing q re-
currence of the recent disastrous
slump which has cost the farmer mil
lions Of dollars.
The development Of air nitrogen
and other cheap sources of fertilizers
can mean more to farming than any
of us quite realize to-day, believe.
We, hope to be able to effect materi-
\ al savings in this direction.
Proposed tariff measures will have
Ia real dollar value to the farmer
who is now faced with the prospect
of producing beef, wool, corn, vege-
table oils, beans, lemons and certain
crops in competition with similar pro-
ducts produced in South America
land the Orient under standards of
living unthinkable to a self-respect-
ling American.
These are but few of the projects
THAT the American Farm Bureau Fed
i 49,, As1xt, hnnac "a cYanrnSe faaItU nrnGf.-